Halloween 2011

As usual Halloween was a big to do in our house. Maddy made a tutu and decided she was going to be a fairy/vampire/princess/valley girl... or something like that.. Liv wanted to be Rufus off of the TV shoe So Random on the Disney channel. Ethan of course was a Jedi knight. Mike went as Spider man and I am still a witch in training, although Maddy thinks I have already earned my masters in that area.. We trick or treated in a friends neighborhood, and had dinner in the drive way. It was fun, but the highlight of the evening was Dianna, Myself and Melissa taking the kids to a haunted garden which we accidentally took the kids to the wrong house, and they got their first taste of something equivalent to Halloween Horror Nights. By the time we realized our mistake there were kids being chased by chainsaws, and dead babies laying around on the ground.. I'm sure this will go down as a halloween memory they won't soon forget. I felt horrible taking 2 car loads of crying kids back to our friends house... Good Times!!

Christmas

Picture Catch up

Camp Rock Spring Show

Maddy had her first big part!!

Boots had an unfortunate accident involving Ethan and the door

We renewed our Disney passes for the year

And joined the local Lego club

Liv started horseback riding

And the new school year involved a co-op, and me teaching a 8th grader, 3rd grade, and a kindergartener!!

First Day of School!! And our SCHEDULE!!

Did I mention we bought a boat, and went to the keys with friends for 10 days?

On our way to the keys

The boat, aka money pit

And the Harry Potter Saga ended this summer! Mike and I took Maddy for a double feature. Part 1 & 2 from 9-2am

Potter!!

Getting ready for Hunting Season

Dino restaurant at Disney

Can't miss free food at Chick fil A

We went to the Do Hard Things Conference

Ethan graduated from Pre School, it was touch and go for a while...

We went camping with friends at Salt Springs

It was beautiful there!!

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Use to be..

I have been looking back on my blog and I must say it has been kind of disappointing. Bittersweet at times. I feel like we use to do so much, and get together more often, and do more things. Or maybe we did other things... This post may ramble and it may not even make sense. Maybe I took more pictures or made more of an effort to document our life, but lately I don't want to dress Ethan up for cowboy day, I'm forcing myself to plan a graduation party for him. For Liv I couldn't wait to have all the friends (Jake, Joe, and Sara) over for an end of the school party. Then that night I had a girls slumber party/game night. Where is my enthusiasm?? I usually have a passion for something. I don't just sew, but I make a quilt, I don't just garden but I plant /can 78 tomato plants and raise chickens. If I paint, I paint desks, and tables, and rooms! So usually it is not hard for me to find a passion and throw myself into it but I feel a bit "unenthusiastic". I'm halfheartedly gardening, halfheartedly enjoying the chickens, halfheartedly doing the preschool thing... I am taking a long summer break, and hope to find a spark for the upcoming year.

So have we changed so much?
glance through my school tab and see what our use to...use to look like...

The Aftermath

When I decided at 8am on Easter morning that I would go and spend Easter dinner with Rhonda. This is what happens. Church was at 10:45 and I needed to make a chocolate ganache cake, a ham, mashed potatoes, and get all of us ready!! I walked out the door with my kitchen looking like this!





And Hannah and Maddy came home and cleaned it for me at the end of the day!! Angels, I tell you!!