Halloweens of Past

Ugh!! Sometimes blogger makes me so mad. I just did this big blog and went to publish it and it disappeared. So, I'll go with this one instead.

Again, more pictures!

Halloween 2002-Landry's first Halloween. She was 9 months old here. I LOVED this age. She was always so happy! We went absolutely nowhere for Halloween, but she had two costumes. Here she is as a jack-o-lantern and Piglet!

Halloween 2003-Landry was 21 months old here. Again, she had two costumes and this is neither of them. She had a really cute giraffe and elephant costume, but it was SO HOT on this Halloween that she couldn't wear either of those. So, we put her in her Texas Tech cheerleader outfit! However, even this was hot!!

Halloween 2004- Landry is two and a half here. She went as a unicorn, aka, "nunicorn". It was so cute! I loved it from behind. When she walked, her little tail wagged!

Fall Festibull

Word of Warning!! The next few posts will contain a lot of pictures. This time of the year creates so many photo ops that are too cute not to share!

Last night was the church's fall festival, better known to Landry as the "fall festibull". They had food, games, hayrides, LOTS of candy, and fun! Landry had a great time at the "festibull" and crashed hard once we got home!

Enjoy!

Ballerina posing!

Landry and her friend Meghan (JoJo from JoJo's Circus). They are smiling cheesy because I told them if they would stand still and smile big for one picture they could go back to the "ducky game" and get more candy! Hey, whatever works!!

This is HISTORY IN THE MAKING right here!! She is usually terrified (and I mean trembling, shaking, crying) of the big dressed up mascot type animal, but not this one! I'd like to think it's because it's a cow......but, really I think it's because it's THE CHICK-FIL-A COW!!! We love us some Chick-fil-A!


Meghan (JoJo) and Landry

Landry's little friend, Larson!

(Big shout out to Files and Karin! You're on the blog!)

Uncle Buzzy's porch in Arkansas.

Random picture. This is a tree in the park across from Buzzy's house. I took it because it was almost like the sun was out solely to shine on this one little tree.

The cutest pumpkin in the patch

Sunday afternoon Jeff, Landry, and I attempted to go to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch. It was FREEZING, WINDY, and DUSTY. We drove an hour out there and stayed about 3 minutes. So, yesterday afternoon I took Landry to a smaller patch closer to our house. It actually turned out to be better because the weather was nicer and there was no crowd, so Landry kind of had the run of the place.

Here are a few pics.

Needless to say, the ponies were her favorite part. The man (who Landry asked 24,785 questions to!) let her ride 4 or 5 times. He was very patient!!

This is what happens to Landry's hair when she gets IN a bounce house. She hadn't even started jumping yet!

Landry in the hay maze!

The View and hair

I looked down at my phone today and realized that it is Oct. 25. (My work phone is SO FANCY....it has the time AND date!) So, a year ago today my sister, some friends and me went to see the taping of The View in Dallas. Although the show wasn't spectacular, mainly because it was hard to hear what was going on, we had a lot of fun and it was neat to see how it was filmed and all of the behind-the-scenes.

I had taken the whole day off work, so after the taping my sister decided that she wanted to get hair extensions and she wanted them THAT DAY! So, we went to the scariest beauty supply store EVER.....equipped with bars on the windows and all. We found some hair to match hers and we were set, except for the fact that we didn't have anyone to put the extensions in. We started calling people in the phonebook and finally contacted "Diva". Diva was able to do the extensions under short notice, and MANY HOURS later Lulu had Belle-from-Beauty-in-the-Beast hair.

Here are some pics from our day!!

By the way, Diva did a great job. Her extensions lasted a couple of months.

Lindsay and I waiting in line at the crack of dawn!

Meredith warming up with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.

The View gals in a rare not-talking-over-each-other moment.

My friends and me waiting in line....again, at the crack of dawn!

Sewing it in!!

Finished product!!

God has an invisible dog

Last night in the car, Landry announced that God has an invisible dalmation. Not too weird that a three-year-old would make up something like this, but she had proof. So she announced:

I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the republic, for "witches" stand
"Malmation" (dalmation), under God
"Invisible" with liberty and justice for all!

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Landry's little class only has two boys. Needless to say, they are both very popular with the little ladies. Landry said to me last night, "I am so mad! Do you want to know why?" Yes! "Asher is going to marry Aubrey. Brendan is going to marry Emma. I don't have anyone to marry and it just makes me so mad!"

Landry is so funny and she doesn't even know it. The past few days both of us have felt a little under the weather. Yesterday I picked her up from school and all the way home she was unusually quiet. When we pulled into the driveway, I asked her if she felt bad. She said, "Yes, I'm sick. I need some medicine and I need you to measure my armpit." Measure my armpit translates to "take my temperature." Too funny!!

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Our household is gearing up for what is being deemed as "the most important game in Texas Tech" history. That's right, NUMBER 7 Texas Tech is playing number 2 UT on Saturday. (I had to make the "number 7" bold and huge b/c this may be the only time in my life that they are ranked this high). Jeff told me this past Monday on our flight back to Dallas that he is already nervous about the game. I'm excited about it and all, but come on! Nervous 5 days early?? Anyway, we're expecting 20 or so of our college friends over to our house to celebrate followed by a celebration......or celebrate followed by a period of mourning. Hopefully, it will be the former!
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Last weekend, Jeff, Landry, PopPop, Gigi, and I went to Arkansas to see my brother. We had a great time. Arkansas was very pretty. The weather was perfect! Unfortunately, I had to miss the Ark/Auburn game due to a "bad reaction to Tylenol", but Dad, Brady, and Jeff got to go and hog call. Hopefully, tomorrow I can get the pictures posted.

Lulu, we missed you last weekend!! Glad you got to see the Anson Lights, though. By the way, you were right. The Anson Lights story and the grave knocker story have scared me for two nights in a row!!

Islands in the Stream.....That is What We AREN'T

Elizabeth's blog from yesterday http://elizabethbarnhill.blogspot.com/ .......(I don't know how to do the cool thing where you just have a word, but it makes a link).........made me think of our Halloween party last year. The theme was "Famous Couples". Jeff and I last minute, and I mean last minute, decided to be Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers (late 70s version). As you can see below, it was a VERY failed attempt, especially Kenny. Poor Jeff's spray on gray beard kept "bleeding" down his face. His brown wig that we spray painted was terrible. It was actually a mullet that we cut the tail off of. He didn't even closely resemble Kenny Rogers. He looked more like Ted Kazinski (the una-bomber).

We had fun at the party anyway!

Rare Sports Post.....

I don't usually post about sports. I typically tend to stay with what I know about the most: my daughter and tv shows, but there is a lot going on in our world of sports right now. Plus, this could possibly be THE ONE post that my dad and Jeff would be interested in.

Here are some of the good/bad:

Good-Texas Tech beat Nebraska on Saturday. It's exciting to watch Tech this year! Go Raiders! I promised Jeff that if Tech goes to the Cotton Bowl or better this year that he can go. I might have to eat my words!

Bad-OU lost to UT on Saturday. However, it was expected this year. I'm sure the Sooners will be back on top next year. Surely, Mack Brown won't want to win two years in a row!!

Good-the OU/UT game at the Cotton Bowl. I know many people complain about the Cotton Bowl. The truth is, it's NOT comfortable, it is outdated, etc. BUT, it is fun to watch the OU/UT game there. It's cool to see half red/half orange split down the 50 yard line. Additionally, there are no suites, which I happen to like......it's just pure stadium. Sure there are better seats than others, but all football fans must brave the weather elements at the Cotton Bowl.

Good-the Aggies are rotten. I almost liked the fact that A&M lost so bad to Colorado more than the fact that Tech beat Nebraska. (Shame on me!!) It's fun to hate the Aggies. I have so many friends that went to A&M and they just cannot fathom losing. I love it!

Good- We're going to the Arkansas/Auburn game Saturday in Ark. It should be fun. Jeff and I have never been to a SEC game, so this will be different. It will also be weird to hear "wooooooooooo! pig! sooie!" I've never really cheered for bacon.

Good-My high school alma mater, Wylie High, is really good again this year! Go bulldogs!

Good- the Angels beat the Yankees the other night and advanced in the play-offs to play the White Sox.

I don't really care about baseball, but our family friend John Lackey pitches for the Angels and we always root for him. John pitched Sunday night against the Yankees and although they lost that game, he pitched really well.

Landry's first baseball game was when she was 8 months old. We went to see John pitch against the Rangers. Below are some pictures.

Here are a few recent pics of Landry. This is her penguin costume. Super cute on her, but she's not convinced that she wants to be a penguin! She's still holding out for cheerleader or horse!























These are from "cap day" at her school. She was SO excited to have a cap...like Daddy!

We had a fun and busy weekend. Friday night we stayed in and recuperated from the long work week. Saturday we had back-to-back birthday parties for Landry's friends. Both were fun! Plus, we got to see Tech pull off an exciting game against Nebraska. The worst part of the game was watching that freaky bouncy Nebraska mascot thing on TV.

Sunday, we went to church and then I went to Ikea with my brother and mom. Then, later we met my mom and dad for dinner. Good weekend!

Zoo

I'm so excited to see Landry this evening. She has been asking for several weeks for us to take her to the zoo. It's been so HOT here lately and on the weekends we have had so much going on, that we just haven't made the trip yet. Every night when we put her to be she says "I want to tell you one more question."......"Are we going to go to the zoo on Monday?" (Monday sometimes means "tomorrow." )

Yesterday, my sister-in-law called to see if Landry could go to the zoo with her and her three cousins, as well as storytime at the library. Landry was SO excited! She immediately asked me what she could take with her to the zoo. She insisted on taking her toy dinosaur so she could "show the animals." Weird...yes, but thoughtful.

I'm anxious for her to get home so I can hear all about it. I hope the animals enjoyed getting to see the plastic brontosauraus......there was a lot of thought put into it!

Things that Freak Me Out........

1) Blue Man Group
2) commercials for the TV show "Medium"
3) watching eye surgery
4) magic tricks where they saw a girl in half
5) Boohbahs
6) double jointed people
7) the bouncing Nebraska blow-up mascot thing.......is someone in there or what?
8) when you pick up the phone to call someone and someone is on the line, but you didn't hear it ring
9) my electric bill
10) the fact that it's already October