Today is a great day! :)

Violet has a half day of school
Riley has school too...
I am doing a few last-minute errands while the kids are in school.
Then we will come home, straighten up the house a bit,
Finish last-minute packing,
go to Violet's parent-teacher conference,
then pile in the car... to go to DISNEYLAND!!!!
We will be at the Happiest Place on Earth from Thursday through Saturday!
Then we are going to Grown-Up Disneyland (aka IKEA!) on Sunday!!!!

WOOHOOOOOOO!!!
Be back late Sunday night! yippeeeeeee!!

Attempt #438 and 439

at getting a decent picture of the kids...





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Updates & Such.

Violet lost her Mega-Tooth. Very cool. Tooth Fairy gave her a $2 bill and a bonus Disney dollar - just in time for next week's trip to Mouse-land :)

Riley's class had their Thanksgiving feast today. I thought it was Wednesday so I was not prepared - had to run out real quick and grab the veggies I had promised to bring, then realized as he was doing the "Gobble Gobble" dance that I was so unprepared I didn't even have a camera with me. Augh!!

I have been crazy crazy busy with photo sessions. Thank goodness the holiday ones are almost over and I will be able to breathe a little easy. Whew.

We did our family photo shoot at Redrock yesterday. 400 shots. You think there would be one where everyone is a) looking and b) smiling... but, well, there aren't so many. LOL. There were still a few good ones... so it wasn't a bust. Heh. Oddly enough, it was Violet who gave me the most trouble. Never would have suspected her!

I am on Green Bean Casserole duty for Thanksgiving. Would you believe I have never made it before? Took me forever to find those durn French Fried Onions... but I did, finally :) Hopefully I can figure out how to make it. Can't be too hard, right?

The inlaws are coming for Thanksgiving.

I am in major clean and purge mode. I want to just throw everything away. It's insane.

The Thursday after Thanksgiving we will be in Disneyland.
I.
CANNOT.
WAIT.

I am 75% done with Christmas shopping. I am very proud of myself :)

Back to photo editing...

Cooties

Our house if full of cooties. Ew. Violet had the pukes on Friday. I got them Saturday night, Riley got them Sunday, and Rick got them Sunday night. All sorts of grossness over here. 12 hours straight of puking for each of us.

I had to cancel two photoshoots this weekend. Waaaaaah!

I am finally feeling better. Sort of.
I don't want to eat anything - but I am forcing myself to partake little by little in the BRAT diet, just to have something in my stomach. Let me say that although I appreciate the 6 pounds I lost in one night, I do not recommend trying this at home as a weight loss remedy.

Off to drink some gingerale.

Working on our family pictures...

I thought these were cute of the kids :)

Confidential to my family...

Dad. It's been 6 months. Again. Time to post a blog update. :)

Mom. Did you forget how to use blogger? I think it's actually been longer for you.

Melinda. An update was promised last week. Um, hi. You are in Korea. I live for your blog updates.

Liane. You *are* back in town. Again. Blog.

Carl. How's that Abercrombie job going? Maybe if you updated your blog we'd know.

Rick. Okay. that was a long shot.

And my update: Violet is well on her way to losing tooth #2 and 3 at the same time... When her bottom teeth grew in, two of them came out fused together. And they are very loose, which means they will be coming out together. Soon. I heard the tooth fairy gives out $2 bills for stuff as special as that. We'll see...

Christmas Card Designs!

Click on the link to go to my site - the card designs are in the "portfolio" section.
Anyone who has had a session with me in the past can also order cards, too!

Loads of pictures

As promised, Halloween...


Riley was a trash man :)


The best part? He got to be a trash man on trash day. Let me just say that those guys thought he was the cutest dude ever!


This is him saying "I'm a trash mam [sic]!"


Violet was Snow White... like the wig?



This was just before going to her classroom for her school party - Riley wanted to be in costume, too... but this time as Tigger...




He would not walk anywhere. It was all hopping, all the time!

Poor Lonely Pluto...
While in Riley's classroom, Liane and I got a glimpse of this poster on the wall...



Okay. Look a little closer...

How sad is that??!

Finally, the big finale...


Reeeeally wiggly...


Violet doing the last tugging...


And it's out!!

Guess what?

Violet lost her first tooth!

Pictures to come... of the tooth, and Halloween. :)