Halloween 2012

This Halloween was the first year that little miss had a really hard time deciding what she wanted to wear. She started out wanting to be an Indian Princess and bounced around a bunch of other ideas before she finally saw this cute little monster girl in a catalog and her mind was made up! I think she was a pretty cute little monster:)

Of course Reese insisted on a costume for Molly monster! Poor Molly was so NOT digging the clothes but we got her to jump around a little for a picture. Boomer Sooner Molly!

The little monster at Trunk or Treat at Primrose.

Happy Halloween..BOOOOOO!!

Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere

Reese and I visited several pumpkin patches this year..these are a few of my favorite pics...

Not sure what she was doing here..but it reminded of all the crazy planking pics everyone was doing for awhile. Ha!

Momma was playing around with the settings on Mr Jeff's fancy pants camera...Reese was happy to oblige.

Love.This.Kid!

Without a doubt the prettiest pumpkin of them all...:)

Karate

Reese started taking karate last year at Primrose. The instructor comes one a week at school and she has the option to go to the studio on evenings or weekends for extra practice if she wants. This year she decided she wanted to keep taking karate and has gotten a lot more interested in it. They sent home a video of moves for her to practice. She asks to practice quite a bit and I am happy to oblige. I like that she is taking an interest and most importantly I like that she is exercising.

Last week she tested at school for her yellow belt. She passed the test and got a stripe on her yellow belt until she could come to the studio and get the new belt.

So proud of this little yellow belt!!:)

Plano Balloon Festival Half Marathon

Pretty sure I've lost my mind but I committed to running the White Rock Marathon again this year. Actually they have changed the name to the Dallas Marathon but basically the same race. My running club ran the Plano Balloon Festival Half Marathon as one of our training runs. Reese hadn't been to a race in a long time so she was pretty stoked to get to go and the balloons were an added bonus.

It was a hot day and not one of my best races but seeing my little race crew every few miles gave me the inspiration to keep running.

I wasn't sure how often we would see them but every time we approached them I heard Reese's cute little voice before I could see her. She was such a super cheerleader! Love that kid more then words!

Reese is normally pretty excited about the medals but after the race she was ready to go hit the games and stuff at the festival.

Thanks to my little fan club for coming out to cheer!

First Day of Primrose Kindergarten

We decided at the advice of the school to bump Reese into the Private Kindergarten class at Primrose so while she thinks she is going to “real” kindergarten this is in fact going to be her Pre-K year as she will more then likely go to public school kindergarten next year. Nonetheless she was pretty nervous and excited this morning. The kindergarten class has to wear uniforms..they are red, white or blue. Reese will insist on wearing pink shoes She asked me to use the flat iron to straighten her hair this morning…she didn’t want the little curls:( Can’t believe my baby is growing up so fast!

Meet Molly!

Back in January when Reese and I moved into our house we started talking about getting a dog. I was really missing sweet Nike and wanted to make sure I wasn't rushing into getting another dog after he died. Since I wasn't sure we were ready and I didn't want to potty train a dog in the cold we waited. I finally decided this summer that I was ready to get a dog. Reese was gone more then usual in August for her summer vacation time with Bob and I was having a hard time with the empty house. We had initially talked about getting a little white Westie so I started looking for one of those. After already having sweet Nike, I kept coming back to wanting another lab. I really wanted a dog that would be able to run with me and also give a sense of security when home alone and I started thinking a 10lb yapper wasn't going to fit the bill:) So I looked at some chocolate labs and then fell in love with this sweet little blonde girl:)

Seriously...how sweet it she?!?!

I brought her home over the weekend when Reese was gone so she came home to a surprise.

She acts like a total nut running around crazy and then she passes out and sleeps forever. Reese calls her "Molly Molly Monster" when she is acting crazy. We love our funny little doggie:)

Florida Waller's visit Oklahoma

The last week of July my brother and his family came from Florida to Oklahoma to spend some time with Nanny and Poppy, attend my brothers class reunion and catch up with friends and family. Since we don't get to see them very often Reese and I made a trip to Oklahoma to hang out. My niece, Danni is 6 years old and Reese's only girl cousin. They hit it off from the start and spent a lot of time playing dress up, giggling and just just hanging out together.

The kids all LOVE to hang with Nanny..she is a no fear Grandma. She went down nearly all the water slides despite having a horrible fear of heights.

On the second day, the Oklahoma Wallers came to meet us at White Water Bay.

There was a local radio station at White Water that day giving away prizes and playing games. Mom entered into us into a drawing for a trip. If your number got drawn you got one of these Floating Coolers and entered it into a race around the Lazy River. We both made it to the final round but neither one of us won the trip...all we won was a silly floating cooler. ha!

Nanny and Poppy have a new dog "Sissy" and Reese was thrilled to get to meet her. After sweet Nike passed away a few months ago Nanny and Poppy decided they really really enjoyed having a dog. She is so cute and funny.

On the 3rd day we took the kids to a really cool Children's Museum. They have TONS of fun things for kids to play around with like driving a boat...

Grocery Shopping...

and flying an airplane!

Since we don't all get together very often we had some pictures made. I think these are the only picture we got of all the adults.

As always Reese has a great time with her cousins Andrew and Zach. I can't believe how big these boys are getting...makes me kind of sad:(

She also really really liked having a girl cousin around and Barrett kind of tolerated the two little girls pestering him:)

Sweet Reese is looking so grown up to me too. What happened to my little baby...sad?!

Love this pic of all the grands with my folks...we had a great time getting together and hope we get to do it again sooner then later.