Honest! It was totally her idea!

I was cutting hair on Saturday when Lucie decided that she wanted her hair short. She was ultra excited and LOVED modeling it after she was done. Her father, on the other hand, was a little apprehensive to say the least, which made it even more fun!Lucie has a huge grin if you look close!

After:

yes, yes, she posed on her own accord. No prompting necessary!

I ended up taking off about six inches (about half her body weight). She looks older but smaller at the same time!

Turkey Trottin'

Rachel, Chris, Me, Merilee and Mikey out for a Thanksgiving morn 4 mile run! It was glorious, everyone kicked booty!Strange things happen when you try to get a staged run...

Chris' face is the best!

Grandpa and Dad

We love you Steve

Ah the life of a dance parent!

You can almost see the angst in Mikey's face: "Three girls=infinite dance shows..."
Little posers, Papa's getting in the mood in this one!
the girls

I love when Lucie poses!

Winter Wonderland girl

Chubby cheeked girl

Awwww

"I cannot do laundry today", said little Peggy Ann McKay

our dryer....at 12:30 at night

What do you do after taking apart you dryer?!

Well, duh! What else!? It's a photo op!

So us and appliances don't really get a long at times. And it seems as though we don't replace anything until it has quite literally blown up. Case in point: our vacuum; we received it when we were first married, it came used from a garage sale. Despite eight years of ups and downs with the thing, and one very memorable visit from the Kirby door sales men, we finally replaced the thing after it started smoking quite profusely before finally quitting on us. Next item: our phone. It got burned on our oven element....yeah. That one we actually used for awhile in it's mangled and mutilated state until Mikey's parents decided we needed a new one for Christmas one year. Our toaster. Once again another appliance that we bought when we were first married. It lasted seven years before one side stopped working, shortly after one half of the other side quit working. Lets say making toast in that thing became it's own art form. Once again, that appliance sparked with some smoke involved before a replacement was procured. Now to the current date. Our dryer. It smoked. It smelled. It stopped working. Upon VERY close inspection it produced burned lint and a blown motor. Maybe we should replace things BEFORE they blow up on us.....nah!

All Hallows Eve!

A couple of trick-or-treating spazes! Louie was pretty mad that night

...and so was Dede...

Here we come candy!

Grandma's home!! Louie and I went to the airport to pick her up

Vampire eyes!

I am what I am!!

At a friends Halloween Party A barnicle on the dingy of life!

Thriller, Pumpkins and Parties!

Back stage chillin with Children of the Corn props! Cute cousins with their Jason bears

Backstage with the boys! Marie was so excited to meet the clown

What a good husband, dunno if he could counts how many times he's been to Thriller!

Our pumpkins

Louie and her mini pumpkin

My yummy spider cookies at our friend Family Night party

"Because it was there."

We finally made it up Timp again. Last summer my insides quit functioning rendering us unable to hike the mountain, so we did it with vengeance this month!

Yoodle-eh-he-ho"So...jumping would sure get us down faster..."

Just strolling down the mountain side


"Are we there yet?!"
This is after we passed the billy goat hunter's camp. At this point we were just jealous we didn't have a freshly skinned goat pelt wrapped around us too. That was so the "in" look this hiking season, and we missed out.

Us: prior to us laughing at the hikers who biffed it on the glacier. We almost (:))felt bad later when we listened in to the dude that fell, he dislocated his shoulder.

Pretty spring flowers in fall (this one is for YOU, yeah, you know who you are!) :)

Erin: "we're going where?!"

Mikey: "I have a twig."

ABC & 123

And so it begins.

Twelve more years and counting, and mommy is loving her time with just Louie in the mornings! Here's the girls on Dede's first day (kindergarten starts a week later).
Ah! Sweet sisters! I love Mercedes turned in little foot, just oh so feminine!

"Here I am, love me!"

Here's Marie on her first day. My little heartbreaker, go get em tiger.

Happy Birthday America!

Scenes from an intense game of tackle footballLaying out the game plan, Sidni seems to have her own agenda...
a beautiful child of mine

The look sweet baby Eddie was giving me as I was serenading him. He seems to enjoy Janis Joplin about as much as Mikey!

Awww, just so precious!

another beautiful child of mine

flashing gang signs? no no, just excited about Cheetos!