Happy 4th Birthday Sweet Reese!

I'm pretty sure I sound like a broken record but I just can"t believe my baby is turning 4! She is growing up right before my very eyes...can someone please slow down time!?!?

I had her 4 year pictures made last week and these are some of my favorites. Reese was LOVING having her little photo shoot and even changed outfits several times which was a first. It's amazing how much difference a year makes!

I "borrowed" this idea from Erin..(thanks E)! Reese thought it was fun when I was asking her the questions. In fact she kept saying "ask me more questions Mommy" even though we were completely out of room on the picture. I sure do love this kid!


Sweet Reese-

I love your sweet sweet smile and your caring nature. You are always quick to help take care of those around you.


I love your sassy side (most of the time) as I know that you will never ever get pushed around in life. You will always be able to hold your own and that my dear daughter is not a bad quality. You will without a doubt in my mind DO whatever you set your mind to in life.


I love the way you love and care for your Dolly. You will be a wonderful mommy some day.


I love your sense of enthusiasm...you can turn the most mundane task into excitement and you tell the BEST stories with all that pizazz:)


I love you more them words sweet baby. Happy Happy Birthday!




Love,
Mommy

Trunk or Treat

Reese's school hosted a "Trunk or Treat" on the day of the Halloween parties. Quite a few parents decorated their cars and passed out candy to the kids. I had never done a Trunk or Treat before but it turned out to be pretty fun. I enjoyed it and Reese was very proud to show her mermaid costume to her friends.


Reese with her teacher Miss Sellers before trick or treating. Doesn't she have the cutest little smile in this pic?!


Checking out her loot...




After the trick or treating they had tons of snacks..this kid was starving!


I sure do love my little mermaid:)



Have a safe and Happy Halloween!

I Heart Candy Corn!

Lazy Sunday

Today it was kinda rainy and a little dreary. Reese and I decided it was a good day to stay in our jammies, carve a pumpkin and cook. You know the kind of day where the smell of something cooking on the stove makes you feal warm all over.

It's no secret to any of you that life has been more then a little crazy this year. It's hard to get real excited about cooking for 1.5 people. Beside the fact that she is done eating in 1.5 seconds or the massive amounts of leftovers that I always end up throwing away because its just to much for the two of us. But I really do love to cook so we decided to start with dessert first:) We made this chocolate chip cookie dough dip...


I forgot to take a picture of it so this one came from the blog where I got the recipe. You can go here if you want to try it out. Make sure you chill it for a bit before you eat it...oh my gosh Reese and I were chowing! Good thing I've been running a ton ha!

After that we put on a pot of Chicken Tortilla Soup and got to work on carving the pumpkin. I had Reese draw the face she wanted so I could trace it on the pumpkin.


I'm all about bang for my buck so you will notice we carved the same pumpkin Reese had already painted a few weeks ago:)

We started with cutting off the top...


and then little miss went to work cleaning out the goop..



We had dinner....Chicken tortilla soup..yummmmo! (You like my "turn the camera sideways attempt" at food photography..haa!)


Then my little mermaid wanted to light up her jack-o-lantern and try on her costume for the 12089365 time!


Just couldn't resist posting this one. She said she was practicing her diving and mermaid swimming moves:)


Oh yeah and one more after it was really dark enough to see our smiling Jack o Lantern.


Hope y'all had a nice relaxing Sunday too!

Funny Friday

I have been training for the White Rock Marathon. I saw this and it made me chuckle...definitely how I feel sometimes:)

Happy Grams = Happy Momma

Reese got this Happy Gram sent home from her teacher one day last week.

"Reese was an awesome helper today. Reese volunteered to put all the toys back in their buckets after they had been cleaned. Thank you for your help today Reese!
-Ms Sellers"

I am a very proud momma of this kiddo..

Autumn at the Arboretum.

A few weeks ago my mom came to town for a few days. We decided to take a trip to see the pumpkins at the Dallas Arboretum. It was a beautiful day and there were pumpkins everywhere...


Look at that ornery smirk!


They had 5 different Princess themed castles amongst the pumpkins, along with a few princesses roaming around:)



We stopped for a snack..




Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere!







They had some fun fointains that all the kids were playing in. Reese was wanting to get in the entier time but I made her wait until the very last to get wet becuase we didnt have any extra clothes. She got SOAKED and loved every minute of it..




I adore this dripping wet little mess:)