All this for one picture!

If you know me you know I like pictures. I like to take them, I like to scrap them, I like to frame them.  They are my trophies of my life.  We got our family pictures taken on October 20, first time we were able to get all of us together for a professional family photos in 23 years. Of course it was windy because the original date we had picked out that Tanner couldn’t make it to was perfect LOL. 

Considering the wind, they all turned out pretty good. I really just wanted a big family picture so I could put it on my wall. Little did I know that I was going to have to spend two hours or more to completely rearranging my family wall. I had to take every single picture down ...every nail out ...go buy two new frames ...figure out what to do with three pictures that I didn’t use and find a better picture of Evelyn!  It was worth it!  My wall looks great! 

Gearing up for the holidays!

I love it when my family gets together for the holidays.  We're 17 strong and loud!  I have music theatre children in the family... they have learned to project their voices.... so no matter what room they are in, or even if they are outside... we hear them loud and clear!

I love it!

Dennis?  Not so much!

He is never to sure once the loudness starts and  the kids are asking 30 questions and all fighting over the same toy.  He looks defeated when people make messes and then walk into another room and make another mess.

The door opens and closes so many times and he thinks I have cooked too much food and just knows he will have to eat leftovers for 3 weeks. We are several families coming together for one meal and the time is always an issue for someone.

I miss having Thanksgiving  at Aunt Sandy's and Uncle Genes.  When all I did was made a couple dishes to bring to the party!  It was the best holiday then.  Eating food, visiting with family, riding 4 wheelers and going to the movies.  Then I would come home and decorate for Christmas while Dennis went to work and the kids played.

I am working hard on making it a fun holiday here too... but it's a lot of work!  I just keep telling myself that I have a 4 day weekend to recuperate!  (the only one I have all year)  And Decorate for Christmas.... so there's that....

Road Trips

Last Sunday, Dennis and I went to one of our granddaughters birthday parties.  You really learn a lot about a person on a road trip.  For instants... while trying to load the address of our destination in the road maps we were talking about which way to head out of town.  All Roads lead to Rome after all.  I thought we should go one way, but he thought we should go another.  He said.. well... I go
both ways. 

Really.........

That's something I didn't know about!  25 years with somebody....... ya think you know a person.

He quickly corrected me with a stern look.

After we pick up Matthew and Cole, I break out the snacks.  No road trip is complete without snacks.  About 30 minutes into the trip, Dennis spots a bug in the car and automatically starts in about all the gnats we have had (2 months ago) and seems to fall into some type of PTSD from the memory and then tells me it's all my fault we have bugs cause I shop at Sprouts!

WTF!!??

His theory is... everything that comes from Sprouts brings gnats to the house...He kills the ONE bug in the car and continues to eat the snacks.

Besides his taste in music on our road trips, this man surprises me daily!

Happy Halloween

Slutty Brownies