Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Festival of Trees

My sister in law, her sister and I entered the Festival of Trees this year. What a great experience.
The best of all - it SOLD!

Thankful! November 2009

I am thankful for:

Thanksgiving Art Projects

Other "wonderful" people cooking dinner!

Pink Gloves

Hilary and Sweet Cheeks Corinne

Animals


The AZ ZOO in November!


Cousins, Aunts, Uncles & Grandparents


By Age - Hilary, Marshall, Corinne, Miles, Calli, Andrew & Simeon

In n Out Burger without the wait - 3 times!

Teeny Tiny Twins

Marshall and Jeffrey
Hialry and Jeffrey
Uncle Jim and Josh - Oh how SWEET!

"Trick or Treat Smell my Feet" HALLOWEEN 2009

Calli is hilarious to go trick or treating with. She is so angelic even as a pumpkin and when the people hold out the bowl for Calli to choose... she is all in. Hand full after hand full.
Buzz Light Year Eli, Lightening McQueen - VROOM VROOM Andrew, Black Ballerina Cats Faith and Molly, Fairy Princess Paige and Princess Pumpkin Calli.
It was so much fun to trick or treat with the Arrington Cousins this year.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Twins - October 30th 2009

Introducing: Jeffrey and Jane Arrington
Cute outfits!
My older bro Jeff and his wife Susan are having twins... and they are here! Jane was born first weighing 4 lbs 13 oz followed by little brother Jeffrey III weighing 4 lbs 10 oz. They spent a couple weeks in the NICU but are home now and doing great. My sister in law is amazing. She is such a great mom.
What a cute little guy - look at those old man wrinkles. Dad loves his only son - for sure!
Every minute I can get my hands on them I do. At the Christmas party the other night I was not helping out with our own kids and Adam told me to put down the baby. I guess you could say I am obsessed. I got to watch them the other day - they were so good for their Aunt Jody. They took turns eating and sleeping. I'm sure that's what happens at home, right Sue?
Wow, that takes talent.
About 6 weeks old!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Happy 16th Jakers!

My little "but not so little" bro is 16! My mom wanted to throw him a surprise party so she enlisted my help as usual. Don't get me wrong, I love throwing parties. (It is the only way my house gets really really clean.)

As he entered he didn't do a great job at pretending he didn't know. Later he told me one of his friends told him about the party - Teenagers!

Highlights of the party:

Eating Pizza
Singing Happy Birthday with a bunch of teenagers
Watching them "cuddle" and "flirt" with each other
Playing the UNWRAP game to find a Coldstone gift card at the end
Watching the boys wrestle for the Coldstone gift card

Happy Birthday Jake!

Fall is in the Air

The Arrington Grandkids

Grandma Julie took the cousins to pick pumpkins at the pumpkin patch. After 2 wagons full and a lot of running around everyone got their perfect pumpkin. Fall just isn't Fall without Football!

It's a witch hunt! For family night we went to Gardner Village to see the witches. We went on a witch scavenger hunt. The kids had a blast searching for the silly witches...




HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Unfortunately I have been very sick for this Halloween week. Despite the sickness for family night we attended a night out at the local park. My kids had fun pumpkin bowling, listening to stories in the cometary, getting their fortunes told by sixth graders and watching the fire department drop pumpkins from the top of their ladder. Marshall insisted they were the pumpkins that were stolen from our front porch - yes the ones Grandma Julie got for us at the pumpkin patch. We had to explain that fire men probably wouldn't steal from the neighborhood. I was in charge of Hilary's and Marshall's parties at school and from bed Tuesday morning I had to call for help. This is not something I normally do. No, I don't think I had the swine flu but something along that line.


I did make it to Calli's parade and class party where I got to experience a little of how she is at school. As you can see she is right up there with her teacher while she is reading the class a story. This is her friend that always asks me if Calli can play, No wonder they are friends. Andrew had fun doing all the activities but after 3 hours we were both spent.