Happy Halloween

 Natale as Rapunzel and Avery the Pirate

The Prince Family 10/29/11

Haircuts with Diane

 The girls needed hair cuts...really bad and picture day was coming soon.  We met Diane S. uring Labor Day and shared that she would love to give the girls some new do's.

 Natale get all finished up.

 Miss Blue eyes with her cute bob.

 Avery's turn. 

Getting her hair washed=BEST PART!!

The Girls with Diane.

and of course with suckers!

Thank you to Diane for a Great experience and I am looking forward to MY TURN!! ;)

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Santa Claus with the Family

Mama, Auntie, Uncle and GG took the girls to Bellis Fair Mall to visit Santa. My pictures were better than the one we paid for....Santa looks the best in it!! :)
Here are those pictures I took....which one it the best?? Natale is Crying in ALL of them. Danielle wasn't happy in one of them and then shows some smiles....Izzy is just too CUTE to care and Avery is glowing and showing off her missing tooth.....CLASSIC Santa pictures...priceless!!!

Santa asked each of the bigger girls what they wanted for Christmas and handed them coloring books. Avery told Santa, Natale wanted a Jessie doll, but when Santa gave the girls their coloring Natale decided to let go of my leg and nodded to Santa she wanted a pillow pet. Then Natale tells me walking out the exit..."He's a NICE guy" Pretty dramatic 10 minutes for Natale though. We ALL waved bye, bye to Santa and headed over to the theater to see the movie "Tangled"

Meeting our NEW BABY COUSIN!!!

Grandma Gail picked the girls up and headed to Auntie's to meet the newest family member. Big sister Danielle, had given us a "head ups" that her new sister was "very crabby"
The girls really nervous at first, but each took a turn. Avery got barfed on, by little Miss Izzy, and took it like a trooper, no crying just big wide eyes and a bath. I told her that "Babies only puke on the ones they LOVE" :)
GG with her oldest and youngest grand-daughters

Sweet Avery with Izzy

SO SWEET........

I LOVE this ONE......so INNOCENT!!!

Natale is studying Izzy for signs of crabbiness....

Avery and Natale can't wait to PLAY with YOU!!! We LOVE YOU so MUCH!!

SLuMBeR PaRTy

We met Auntie and my niece at the Chuck-E-Cheese's in Burlington for some playtime and lunch. And then, the girls and I headed south for a Slumber party and Auntie Krissy headed north to have a date night with Uncle Grant's for his 40th Birthday!!

On the ride home, we sang songs, played I Spy & find ABC's game and made silly sounds and faces as you can see....I was driving and took pictures with out even looking back at them...SUPER FUNNY GIRLS!!!

Danielle & Avery showing their silly faces

BEST ONE!!

Nat & Avery

We headed to the community playground for some energy release before dinner. We balanced on the curbs, chased each other around the big toy and made pretend food with sticks, rocks and bark chips......YUM-O!! :)

And captured pictures of my CUTIES!!

tried to get serious shot and then goofy

AND the best part of a SLUMBER party??? Jumping on the bed, pillow fights, candy, cupcakes, and a Princess movie!!

And we're ALL ready for night, night on the top bunk bed....the girls have SO MUCH fun together and they can't wait for a new little cousin and sister!!
We are LOOKING forward to our next SLUMBER PARTY at the GREAT WOLF!! :)

Easter with the Hanson's

The DeRemer's & the Prince's have started a new tradition. We are going to start having overnighters before Easter. We ALL get to get up and enjoy the offerings from the Easter bunny and enjoy a Yummy breakfast.
GG, Grandpa, Uncle Bubba and Tucker arrived for our early dinner of our new favorite "taco truck tacos" Nothing fancy, we just want to spent the time with our family.

Auntie and Mama put all our eggs together and we hide about 150 eggs for our 3 little ladies. We had lots of giggles and shrieks when we headed for the loot.

GG helping Natale

Avery and Danielle running for their eggs

Bubba helping Natale

And WE'RE ALL WINNERS!! with LOTS & LOTS of goodies!!

The girls have SO much FUN together and LOVED showing off there stickers, coins and candies to Everyone. Thank you for sharing such a WONDERFUL day with US!! HAPPY EASTER!!

GARAGE Clean-up Weekend!!

Our Mother has been nagging us for years to take our things out of her garage so she can have it back!! We ALL bought houses in 2009, so us siblings marked out the 3rd weekend in March to devote to CLEAN our Mother's filthy garage!! Sorry Mom?!?! My Brother was the ROCK STAR of the project, but I did lots and my sister watched the kiddos. My Mom was thrilled with our company and all the organization & cleaning that got done.

Before 1

Before 2

After 1: from inside garage door. She might actually fit her car in there?? ;)

After 2.
Super better....trust me!! :)

Auntie Krissy's duty for the weekend was to entertain the girls. She took them to the park at the school and they played with all the toys we pulled from the garage or closets in the house.

being silly

Avery looks SO tall

We stayed the night Friday night to get an early start on Saturday. The girls got new matching jammies from GG and were watching a FUN movie before bedtime.


Auntie and the girls also made cupcakes for fun too. Lots of eggs cracking, cups pouring and finger licking of the batter.

We had a great family weekend. Lots of talking, giggles, and love!! Great Job Jonny, Krissy, GG, Papa and Mama for ALL they did to help out that weekend!!

planting flowers and finding bugs

This spring, we wanted to put some height in our front flower bed, so we planted a few Alaskan weeping cedars. We also added some colorful perennials, Azalea bushes, and several poppy plants (Joe's favorite) that will brighten our pathway to the front door. We also bought a few Espalier (branched out to grow on trellis) fruit trees that we hope will bear apples and pears in the summer and fall.

Our front yard....our grass is so green.....for now!! :)

On another sunny Pre-spring day, Mama and the girls took a trip to the Home Depot and bought a few primroses and seeds packets for some outside springtime planting. Avery and Mama were able to get outside to get the flowers planted and watered while Natale took a nap.

Avery showing off her 5 primroses

After planting the flowers, Mama & Avery started pulling weeds and sorting out the rocks in the backyard that still needs to be landscaped. But that HUGE project will be done in the near future. While Mama was busy digging and racking she found some critters....

a few juicy worms

Avery showing off the lady bugs and worms

lady bug crawling up the grass

Another lady bug!!

I Love Lady Bugs and hope they might bring us some "Good Luck" because we saw 3 of them that afternoon. We hope to share more of our outdoor garden adventures soon!!

TENTS & TUNNELS

When its NOT SO nice outside and being home sick with colds or whatever, We try to find FUN things to do!! Natale received a Dora tent and tunnel from Uncle Bubba for Christmas and Avery had a princess tent so Mama got a great IDEA!! Mama was able to connect the 2 tents with the tunnel (straps and velcro) = GREAT FORT and FUN TIMES!!!

my GIRLS!! :)

Natale through the tunnel

and Avery's turn

At the top of the princess tent

And playing peek a boo with MAMA!!

We HAD lots of FUN playing in our tent/fort. Pillows, blankets, and stuff animals made there way into the PLAYTIME too! :)

Pumpkin Carving

We GOT 2 "carving" pumpkins this year. So, I thought I would take one to my Mom's for her to have for her front porch. The girls were super excited about carving a pumpkin...FINALLY (as Avery would say)
Mama getting ready to start

scooping the GUTS!!

everyone watching the GUTS come out....nobody would touch them

finished

Not my best work, but followed a pattern free hand...

AND On Wednesday, we spent the day at Lavender Hills farm playing with our friends Corrie, Jack and Bella. We made cookies and carved pumpkins and made burgers for dinner. We ALWAYS have a GREAT time at the Murphy's

Avery telling me what to do.....she asked for a princess and I made a lady jack-o-lantern.....jill-o-lantern???

Corrie and Jackson carving their pumpkins....AND thank you Corrie for hosting us!!

Our finished GAL!! I think of her stem as a pony tail!

And of course we had to test it!! Spooky!

She has eyelashes, petite heart-shaped nose, with lips and cheek bones. :)

Trick or treat!!!