Kate's New Pictures

Kate had some new pictures taken last Thursday. You can view them at this website:

http://www.portraitsandmore.com

The website is not very user friendly, so I hope you can see them. They will only be on the site until 11-22-08. Here are the instructions after you get on the site:

-Click on CUSTOMER LOGIN HERE ( in yellow)
-Scroll to the bottom of the page
-Click on CLICK HERE TO SEE YOUR PORTRAITS (in red)
-The password is Stansell111708 (upper case S and lower case everything else)
-Then click on CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE (in blue)
-Finally click on VIEW ALL IMAGES (in blue) at the bottom under the search box.

Hope you get to see them. Let me know which ones you like!

Favorites of Luke Cont.

Here is a precious video of Luke singing the Barney theme song, "I Love You". He was not even two years old. He loved Barney back then!!

Favorites of Luke

I was looking thru our pictures the other day and decided it would be fun to share some of my favorite pictures of Lukie. As you will be able to tell, he has been quite a character his whole life. He tends to be silly most of the time, but he always makes me laugh. Hope you enjoy!

First Christmas...

I had just made the bed...then look what I found amongst the toys.

What a precious picture of Daddy walking with Little Lukie...

Rebel without a cause! He will not let you mess with his hair now. He is very picky about his hair being messed up.

He jumped in shoes and all....


Along for the ride....

Holy Pee Pee, Batman!

Uh Oh!!!! Mama I'm stuck!

Kissing Cousins

What a proud BIG Brother....

Rachel's Teeth

Here are a picture of the teeth Rachel had pulled today. She was very scared, but Chris said she did real good. She came home and had some ice cream. Ice cream sure does help you feel better! Then she slept most of the afternoon. She ate dinner without any problem. She is hoping for a very generous and sympathetic tooth fairy tonight! Thank you for keeping her in your thoughts and prayers today.

These are her baby eye teeth. The dentist said she would not have lost them until she was eleven. The roots get worn away by the permanent teeth pushing against them before they go ahead and push them out. Since hers were not even close to coming out they still had the roots.

Trick-or-Treat

The very highly anticipated day of Trick-or-Treat has finally arrived!! The kids had a BLAST!! Even Kate knows how wonderful it is to get candy from every one you meet! Every year we go trick-or-treating with the preschool at Midland College. All the campus offices pass out candy to the little kids. It is so neat to see all the little kids dressed up in their costumes. Another bonus is it happens during the day.

After we finished trick or treating at the college, we rushed home to eat dinner and get ready to hit the neighborhood. We went down two and a half blocks, and Rachel and Luke's pumpkins were filled to the brim. This neighborhood is full of kids, so we saw a lot of little ghouls and goblins along the way.

Luke got lots of comments about his Mystery Machine. It was a big hit! We heard a lot of "cool costume" and they would sing the Scooby Doo theme song. I was worried they would not know what he was, but everybody knew right away. His costume was definitely an original. Rachel made a beautiful cowgirl! Her cowboy boots hurt her feet, so she wore her pink rain boots. I don't think anybody even noticed. Kate was by far the cutest bumble bee I have ever seen! Below is a precious video of my baby girl on her first trick-or-treating outing.

It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Last night we finished carving the pumpkin, and then we watched It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. (My personal favorite Charlie Brown cartoon.) Luke really enjoyed the show. He laughed a lot. Rachel fell asleep.

I had decided to boycott the whole pumpkin carving process this year because last year the kids saw what the inside looked like and hit the road leaving me with all the cleaning out and carving. I put a bug in Rachel's ear to have Aunt Dena help them carve a pumpkin while she was here. This pumpkin has the thickest and hardest shell of any pumpkin I have ever carved. It took everybody to get a hole cut in the top, my Dad even helped, but it was Dena who finished it off and broke into it! Rachel and Luke started cleaning out all the goo. I was proud of them for facing the mess and trying. They worked at it for a while, but Chris actually finished it for them. Chris has many hidden talents that he only shares when absolutely necessary. His pumpkin carving skills are one of them. Last night I drew the face on, and Chris did the actual carving. It took a mallet and hack saw to cut through the shell. Don't you think they did a great job?!?!

Trick or Treat pictures coming soon.

Pumpkin Patch

Today we took our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. We have gone each year since Rachel was Kate's age. My Mom, Dena, and Aunt Lorita came with us this time. We had a fun time as always.



That is me as a fat farmer...

I took this picture in front of the house....I thought it was cute of all of them together.
We bought a pumpkin while we were at the pumpkin patch. Pictures of our Jack-O-Lantern coming soon.