We had a family portrait done this afternoon (right at nap time so you can imagine how well the children cooperated!!!)  then off to lunch (still during nap time - we are REALLY crazy!)

And the all of the carved Pumpkin's - Dad did the Apple Symbol and Alisia did the Wink emoticon - :) - Didn't they all turn out great?

Can't wait to go Trick-or-Treating with the kids tonight!!  

Today was quite a busy day...

After we got ready we thought we might try a family picture - who would have thought it would be difficult.  Here are all of our attempts!!! 
Only Daniel was focused this time around...

Then Sydney thought it would be fun to throw leaves!

Can you see that I have given up at this point???

We did a couple of cute ones...

Then we took a drive up into the mountains to see the amazing fall colors and let Sydney see some real Mountains and it was great!!!  For some reason i didn't get any pictures of the colors but I did get these pictures and I thought they were amazing...

After this we dropped off Daniel and a very sleepy Casey and went to get Sydney's haircut!  Yes Sydney officially received her first haircut - about 3 or 4 inches!!!  Before we even got to the salon we saw a field of Pumpkins that it looked like they were plowing to start a housing development so we jumped out and Sydney and Grandma got quite a few pumpkins.

Sydney with her all HER pumpkins!!!

And then it was time for the haircut...

She did a great job (even though she looks scared to death)!!  Sydney even made us laugh - The woman asked her "How are we gonna cut your hair today?" 

Sydney replied, "Ummm, with scissors!!!" 

We laughed so hard because obviously she was asking what style she wanted but to Sydney there was only one answer for that question!!!

Needless to say we had a great day and the girls were exhausted!!!  Tomorrow Kale and Alisia get here and we are going to the pumpkin patch!!

To Salt Lake City that is...  

After some "getting to know" time for Casey she is now all about her grandparents and is having a ball with them and her big sister!!!

Then it was time for bed in some nice warm "Utah" pj's!!  Can't wear these comfy things in Texas!!!

I have to get up REALLY early some mornings for work but look what I get to look at...  

I just wanted everyone to know that for my entire life and probably all of yours also we have been wrong!  What I have always thought were STOP signs I learned tonight aren't that at all they are st0p.  Yes according to Sydney they are indeed S-T- Zero-P signs!

While in line today at Target I had already noticed a VERY pregnant woman standing behind us and instantly felt sympathy.  Apparently Sydney noticed also...

Funniest part - Sydney looked in the mirror spelled "D-O-R-K" and laughed at me because she said I spelled her name wrong! HEHEHE The Joys of Motherhood!

Sydney got a rocking horse from her Uncle Chris and Aunt Alisia on her 1st bday!!  Thankfully so because it is Casey's favorite thing to do when she invades Sydney's room!!!  If we let her she'd drag it all over the house...

I don't know if any of you have ever been to Ikea but that is the coolest store I have ever been in!! Last weekend on the way home from the game we stopped at one about an hour north of San Antonio to see what it is all about and I was so shocked!!

No denying my undying faithfulness to the Sooner football team - Yes it's true I love the Sooners like they are a part of my family!!  Most of you will laugh at this but it is about putting your hopes and dreams into a group of young kids with talent and going for it!! 

A conversation between Sydney and I this evening...
"Mommy do you remember that word?"

"What word Sydney - there are tons of words to remember?" (yes I was slighty cranky at this point! This was her 14th trip out of bed to ask random questions!!!

"That word that I said earlier that means BIG PROBLEM!".

"Ooh that word - I don't remember Syd.". (of course I knew what word it was but if I told her there would have been about 20 questions to follow -Don't judge me!!!)

At this point Sydney came over and so gently put her hand on my arm and said,
"Oh mommy that is so sad, you lost your member!" and just turned and walked straight to her room!

How funny is that?
FYI - she was talking about the word calamity! Yes my 4yr old learned calamity from a cartoon this morning and all day walked around saying "mom calamity - Casey is in my room" or other things that would qualify as a big problem to a 4yr old!

So as you all know - We are Sooner fans!! Yesterday Daniel and I made the trip up the road a couple hours to Waco to watch OU beat up on Baylor. The trip up was excellent - very quick and we saw a ton of other Sooner faithful on their way.  Baylor (which has a beautiful campus) was running a free shuttle over to the game. So of course we took advantage rather than pay and fight the traffic - we parked at their baseball stadium.  Not 5 minutes after getting out of the truck I got stung by a bee!! I am still shocked - I made it almost 29 years without a bee sting and for no reason at all a bee stung me on my toe 1 hour before kickoff. Of course I was concerend that I was going to be allergic and miss the entire game but I was fine.  I played it up for as long as I could though - which was only 3 minutes before Daniel gave me the get over it look.

We got to the stadium and there were tailgaters everywhere and it was just an amazing atmosphere (I guess you have to like football though!)

 

 The Sooners dominated from the very beginning and it looked like a how to video - like how to embarrass the other team!!!  It was a great time and we can't wait for the next chance we get to make it to a game!!!  But next time we will bring sunscreen - a lot of sunscreen - we are both so burnt it isn't even funny!!  I look like I'm on fire and there is no exaggeration there. 

Here are a few more pictures from the game...

The National Anthem before kick-off !!

Coach Bob Stoops watching his efforts as coach pay-off for yet another season!!

I told you our seats were great - we saw everything!!

End of the game - Thanks for the practice Baylor!

Final score - OU 49 Baylor 17!!!