North Carolina Wedding/Trip in October

I realize that these pics are out of order, but I was so behind on updating my blog, that I wanted to get some of the pics from our trip posted. The three sisters.

My Beautiful Family

Mom and Dad

One of my favorite pics of Dad with all of us.

The Wedding couple

The ring bearers

The flower girls

Allen and I

The boys playing on the long wrap around porch at our cabin.

Bri and the goofy girls

Addy and Liss

Thomas and Liss

Thomas was so excited when he picked out this bow and arrow set.

The girls at one of the water falls

A beautiful view

The river at the base of Chimney Rock

The kids had so much fun climbing around on all the rocks near the river.

Family pic

Exploring one of the kid friendly trails

Getting ready to hit the trails

Another Family pic while visiting Chimney Rock.

December Moments

Yesterday was the last day of school before Winter Break begins. The girls were all decked out in their Santa hats when they left for school. This was a picture from last week, when we had a brief snow one evening. We are still waiting for the big snow storm to hit us.

Visiting Santa at Allen's office.

Being goofy at home.

Thomas' Holiday party at School

Savannah at her Holiday party.

Addy at her Holiday party.

Cider Mill

Last Friday I took the kids to the Cider Mill with Savannah's girlscout troop. We took a hayride, learned how cider and cider donuts are made, and we got to enjoy some too. We also played in the pumpkins. Here are a few photos from that day. As you can see Thomas wasn't too cooperative with getting his picture taken. He kept turning his head or making really goofy faces. I love this one of Addy and Joseph.

Today I am packing, and packing, and more packing. We leave for North Carolina tomorrow evening after school conferences. Then we get back next Thursday and we are having Thomas' Birthday party on Friday. So, not only am I packing I am also cleaning, and getting things together for a Spiderman Birthday party. Well, I must get back to preparing for the trip. As you can imagine trying to get 6 of us ready to be gone for a week is exhausting.

Making a Cake

Monday was Allen's Birthday. The kids helped me bake a cake afterschool that day. As you can see they really enjoyed themselves.

The kid's are growing up

Today Savannah played in her first Softball Tournament "The Monster Bash" They lost their first game, but won the second one. Each team had to be in costume today, decorate the dugout and then perform a dance. There was a pumpkin carving contest as well. Tomorrow they have two more games and if they win both of those there is another game late in the day. Their team is called the "Firecrackers: and the coaches were dressed in costumes that said "Diamond Matches"

Our coaches were great sports and danced with the girls. The song they danced to was "Party in the USA" by Miley Cyrus. I videotaped the whole dance, but it's too long to post on my blog. Maybe on facebook....

Close up of Savannah and Allen

Also today I found this picture of Addy on her first Halloween

Now 8 years later... this is what her costume will look like this year.

Look at all the fun we have had.

Trip to the Ren Fest with Bri, and Grandma and Grandpa Irwin

We also visited the Circus

The girls had Crazy hair day at School.

We took a trip to the Zoo

We had friends over to play and Mom cooked pasta for dinner!

October is right around the corner and we have Thomas' Birthday coming up, a trip to the Pumpkin Patch, the Cider Mill, Bri's wedding in North Carolina, and Halloween! It will be another fun filled month with our kids.

Me Vs the Hair Dresser

Not a happy Momma right now. I just got back from getting Joseph's haircut. We have done this many times, and not had a problem. Today was a different story. I can't say his haircut is bad, it's just not that I asked for.

Here is the scene. I have just finished taking away the fourth bottle of hair product that Joseph has picked up and thrown to the ground when we are called back. I am nervous instantly. This is an older lady with glasses and a hairstyle that haven't been updated since the 80's. I tell her this, " I like to keep his hair longer so that we can keep the curls"
"Okay" she says and than proceeds to get out CLIPPERS! " Do you mind if I use clippers"
I say, "We don't usually use clippers and I don't want his hair to short. We normally get a scissor cut"
She says," Clippers are safer than scissors I will just use them at the base of his neck"
"Okay" I say
...Buzz, Buzz, Buzz, Buzz go the clippers all over the back of his head. Then she brings them up
around the front.
I say," I want you to use scissors now"
So, then she starts snipping away, Josph is screaming, and squirming and I say" he normally doesn't act this way (trying to make the point to this woman that neither of us like her)
She says," Kids always act this way"
I say "he has had numerous haircuts and he never acts this way" Again I say "you are cutting too much off"
She says," This is still very long to me" (I don't care what you think lady!)
I say," you need to stop this is not what I asked for"
She says, with scissors still in hand..." This is a little boys haircut, let me just finish"
I say, " I know what a little boy's haircut is and I didn't want one, we still wanted to keep his hair on the longer side" then added. "this is not what I told you I wanted"
"hmmm" she says

We are done.
We walk to the desk
"That will be $12 please"

I normally tip people a little something, but this woman got nothing. $12 was all she got, and I feel a little guilty for not tipping, but she did not do her job. Am I terrible?