Pink Cupcakes and Cherry Pie

Li'l Abner is now officially over. Ooh happy day!

Goodbye party for Miss Lindsay Pauls...

Note the pink cupcakes!

Lindsay...being Lindsay :)

Summer reading!

Kate's 5th Birthday! We did each other's hair :)

Now is when I miss being a little girl...

Pink cupcakes strike again!

Dolly tea party...

Emma, Kate, Faith and Mom :)

Drawing :)

Made Cherry Pie with my Grandma! (With our freshly picked cherries from our front yard!)

We enjoyed it with our neighbor, Miss Jessica, on the porch.

Mmm.

Drove out to watch Levi and Will play in a Baseball Tournament on Saturday! They both did great, and it was fun to get out with the fam and shop and eat :)

Shopping at Old Navy! Pretty much my favorite place..I can't even tell you how much I love their clearance section!

Sister o' Mine :)

Eating frozen yogurt at the Orange Leaf after a hot afternoon at the ball park.

Ahh, this stuff is WAY too good. Mmm.

Toppings galore!

You can pick however many flavors you want...which is good, because they're all so very delicious.

Papa John's pizza on the way home! Yuuum.

What a fun day! God has blessed me with a pretty incredible family!

*really big smile*

Results for the NLE came in yesterday...turns out I was awarded "Summa Cum Laude", and I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!! (Thank you, God, for giving me the patience/endurance I needed to study. Could not have done it on my own.)

Yesterday Karis turned nine years old!


We had a fun Dr. Seuss party...




And a bunch of yummy food. Dad grilled the best hamburgers ever - even though it was 60ish degrees outside. :) HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY to my sweet sister :)

And my Aunt and Uncle got all of us kids converse for our birthdays (we got to pick out the colors and such) and they arrived in a big box yesterday!!

(Kate and I's twinkie raspberry shoes)


I'm really glad God's always there, aren't you? He is such a faithful provider. There's no place I'd rather be than safe in His arms.

Really? Already?

Is Thanksgiving already over? Was it really two days ago that we munched orange rolls, played football in the backyard, watched Detroit get beat..again, stretched the adult's memories to the max in the Couch Game, and of course...devoured the wonderfully delicious dinner?

Are we already putting our fall decorations away? Is Christmas music really playing 24/7? Did we actually decorate the church, preparing for Advent? Is Mom really almost done Christmas Shopping? Can the Ball really be less than 21 days away?

Yes. It can. And is.

LET THE PARTY BEGIN!

Here's a few snapshots from Thursday...

Kate, at the breakfast table, displaying her turkey.

Mmm...Sticky rolls.

(l to r) Kate, Uncle Eric, Karis, and Zeke. Uncle Eric is the buddy of every little person in our family.

Levi's beeeeautiful smile after the orthodontist finally cranked off the braces.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean my room, while blasting Christmas all over the place!

I wish December was longer.

"No one mourns....the WICKED!"

Wow.

Just.

Wow.

WICKED was the single most incredible musical I have ever watched.

WOW.

I basically had chills the entire time :)

AHHHHH!

I want to watch it again.

And again.

And again.

*sings*

It was so worth missing the first basketball game. Sorry team. Wicked phoweeps.

We left...around 7:30, and drove to Wichita. Not quite as easy as it sounds.
My mom is not the most confident driver. *cough* understatement *cough*
But, we made it there safely AND without taking any scenic detours.

Kate and Karis :) They so cute.

We left them at Grammy's house. Karis was convinced she was going to be dead when we got back. Morbid child :)

Then, Mom and I went shopping! It was fun...but,
in the three whole hours, we only bought SOCKS. Exciting, right?
Oh, and we ate at this yummy healthy resturant, and got serenaded by an old guy playing jazz on an electric piano :) It was pretty awesome.

And, then, we got the theater! It was huge, and round.

YAYAYAYAY!

We made it up the three flights stairs, only to discover we had come up the wrong side. So down we went, and back up three more flights of stairs. We were in the middle of balcony...*grin* It was actually a pretty good view. And binoculars were helpful too. Here's the stage at the beginning, it's kind of fuzzy..(And, yes, that is a bald guy's head in the corner)

And...it was incredibly amazing and awesome and moving and all that jazz.
I LOVED IT.
And I thought the actors/actresses did a great job not forming to the typical mold of the songs from the original broadway showing. Popular was faaabulous, and it was different, and almost better, I thought, than Kristen Chenoweth's.
And the sets were crazy cool.
So was the rain on stage.
And they all had beautiful voices.
And it was altogether sweet.

Here's my t-shirt :)

And it was a little creepy...I saw Mr. Dalton (The Director of Wizard of Oz from '08) at the show afterwards. How weird.

But it was an incredible experience.

It was WICKED. (Yes. This is overused. Yes. I am going to use it, again. :D)

Three Year Olds Are Hilarious

So, I was sitting next to Kate on the couch, comforting her after she had banged her knee.

Kate: (very seriously, and still sniffing) My knee has a boyfriend.
Me: (trying really, really hard not to laugh) Really? Who's your knee's boyfriend.
Kate: (points) My other knee. See, they're together?

It was SO SO funny!! I about died laughing. She didn't get what was so funny :) Don't you wish you had a three year old sister?