Make a Smilebox postcard

pause music box first...enjoy!

Quotable Quotes...

Kalkidan (the day after election day): "The president is so cool. He gets to live in the yellow house, right mom?" She apparently had been learning about presidents at school and got a little confused...

Gracie (Randomly): "Ahh, I love Sleeping Dutie." She means Sleeping Beauty.
She loves her princesses!

Princess Gracie!

Gracie and her "lip stick" (aka chap stick)

Gracie as a princess fairy on Halloween

Fall Festivals

We have gone to several harvest festivals this fall. It's been a lot of fun!
Enjoy the pictures!
(~Allison~)

We're Moving!

We are finally moving! Some one bought our house not too long ago after we had been trying to sell it for over a year! We found a house that we love and will be moving in shortly. Can't wait!

Written by: Allison (again)

Henry?

Some of you may know that we have a dog named Henry, he is a shnowzer. Well, today as I was doing my work I heard him scratching on a toy playhouse and yelled at him to stop it and didn't think much of it. A little later I went out to get the mail. After a little while longer I started to wonder where my dog was and started looking for him; after a few minutes of searching I started to get worried. I remembered that I had gone out to get the mail earlier and maybe he had gotten out then- I headed for the car. I was thinking as I was stitting in the car "where was the last time I saw Henry?" then I remembered the girls' playhouse! I ran inside and looked in the house and he wasn't there. We have a large tv. next to the playhouse and I soon found Henry stuck behind it! I had been yelling and he hadn't even barked! Maybe he was hiding (there is a lot to hide from around here after all). I don't know but I'm glad he was found.

Written by Allison, Happened to my Mom
ps. He had been behind there for around 5 hours!

School Starts Today...Hip Hip Hooray!!!!

O.K., so I'm a little excited! Just dropped 4 of the 5 off at school this morning! Couldn't stop singing...kept going back and forth between George Michael's "Freedom" and "Imagine me for you and you for me...so happy together" to my dog Henry. I know it borders on tragic and sad but good comedies always do!

Alli was met by looks of "Wow...is that Allison from the second grade?" since it has been that long since she has attended this school. Ryan seemed fine since he had a swimming party where he met lots of new classmates...yes, he did a cannon ball immediately to introduce himself (his father's child). Michael and Kalkidan went right in after a huge lecture in the car about not being disrespectful, not picking their nose & wiping it on the walls, listening and obeying and what will happen when they don't...(it was a rough Sunday at church with the volunteer teacher who was about in tears after watching them yesterday). Gracie is at home with me today as her first day starts tomorrow. She has Henry dressed and covered with a blanket as she is working hard to make him cereal in her play kitchen.

So what will I do, people keep asking me, with all this free time? It is actually just 2 days of freedom...just 12 hours a week....I'm sure I will find something...work, laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping, purging the house of junk, yard, my sister's new baby, etc., etc., Actually, I'm most looking forward to having quality prayer times and maybe, just maybe, reading a book!