happenings

This time of year is always stacked with tons of activities. {and I love it!}
Earlier this month we went to dinner to celebrate niece Katrina's 14th birthday.
These two cousins are two weeks [and TWO FEET!] apart in age.

We also watched nephew Cole perform in his Junior High One Act Play.
He is quite an actor! So proud of him! (he's the gray haired fella!)

My sisters, Aunt, cousin and I enjoed a lovely, long weekend in an Oklahoma cabin last weekend. I'll be posting more about that soon!

Football and Marching Band season ended for us last night with a loss to Mart at Area. Concert season and track are next for us, but not until after the first of the year.

So...

Bring on Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!

~cross country~

Today we traveled to the land of thistle and cacti.

{In these pictures you can tell we have had basically ZERO rain in the past 3 mos. Sad!}

We had a special reason for traveling (ok...it's less than 40 miles from home)

Miss Katrina was running in her first cross country meet of the season. She did a great job! She barely seemed winded at the end of her 2 mile run. We loved watching her run and getting to yell for her!

Afterwards we drove around the countryside.
I love old barns and outbuildings!

Virgil composed this shot. He was inspired by the juxtaposition of old energy sources and new energy sources in the same frame.

Bandana shirt

This shirt is so cute! And SO easy! And super fun to make! I found the tutorial here on Joy's Hope.

And here's the shirt I made for my 11 yr old niece, Katrina:






And here's the little sass modeling it for me:





Now I need to make one for Megan, and Makenna, and Hannah, and Colleen..... :)

Katrina's slumber party and a ZSQ

The slumber party was fun! Cathy, Colleen and Hannah dolled the girls up with make-up and styled their hair. The all wanted to have a photo shoot, but no one wanted to go first! LOL We finally got them loosened up and the photos turned out cute! Here's one of the three girls together. The birthday girl, Katrina, is in the middle. On the left is Haley, and the right is Jordan.



Here's Cathy and Hannah trying to get the girls to loosen up:




OH, and I made another ZippyStrippy (thank you, Jenny!). Here's the ZSQ I made for Katrina's b-day gift: