Playing with my new lens!

Making cookie brownies

 1st, the brownie batter

 then, the cookie dough

 Put it all together and bake for about 25 minutes

 All my girls say the funniest things at times.  Today as Lucy was cleaning out the brownie bowl for me :-), I asked her, "Lucy, is that good?"  She replies... "mmmmm.. kinda" so I told her, "well, go give it to Ava if you don't like it, she will eat it."  Lucy says... "No, I think I can handle it."  LOL  All this as she shoves more batter into her mouth...

Chris is coming home from a 4 day show today, and every time he comes home I make him spaghetti and chocolate cake (I know... I'm silly).  But today, I decided to combine two of his other favorite treats, brownies and chocolate chip cookies... I will know later if these were a hit or not. :-)

It's exhausting to be 5 :-)

As Chris was reading the girls their nightly stories last night, he noticed Lucy was unusually quiet... then, he looked over and saw her fast asleep. :-)  Like I said, it's exhausting to be 5. :-)  She is so cute!

Chris should be getting paid for all his hard work on his day off!.....

As I was driving home from school today I noticed a light column of smoke coming from our neighborhood.  (much lighter than what you see in the first picture) Once I got through thae gates I drove to the house to check it out.. Sure enough, there was smoke coming from the roof of the garage.  I drove back home and got Chris and told him there was probably a garage fire up the street (only 4 houses away).  He ran up the street to go check it out, and confirmed a working garage fire was actually in progress.  We called the fire department, and Chris and his old crew at 32 worked hard to get the fire out very quickly. 
This was the first fire that the girls had seen close up (well, Maddie's second)... Lucy and Ava's favorite part of it all was jumping over the large 5" hose and playing in the water.

~~~~~~Happy Halloween!!!!~~~~~~~

 Lucy didn't care so much for taking out her pumpkin seeds... LOL  I just love her expressions!

 Ava loves the small pumpkins... including this little itty bitty one we grew in the garden this year!

 Lucy's carved pumpkin... she drew the face all by herself!

 The master pumpkin carver. :-)

 Ava's turn to scoop!

 Three beautifully decorated home grown pumpkins.

 Three creative carved pumpkins... from left to right: Maddie, Lucy, Ava. :-)

 The trick or treating crew!

 Cowgirl Ava!

 Kaitlyn and Madeline having fun with their "cuz cuz" time!

 Here are two of the prettiest cowgirls around!!!!

 Cousins!!!

 Happy Halloween!

Ava's lost her FIRST tooth!!!!!!!

Ava's "Fabulous friend of the week" poster!

Just having fun :-)

There hasn't been much time to pull out my beloved camera since starting nursing school.  But today Lucy and Ava wanted to wear their fancy dresses and I couldn't resist taking a few photos of them... All three girls are so adorable and so photogenic!  I'm so glad they put up with my photo obsession!