The Suits Sisters

Happy Halloween!   $2.99 lampshade from Goodwill spray painted silver  She surprised me by keeping her hat on for most of it. At each house Liza turned around to me and said "Come'er. Come!"  Turns out the cupcake costume was great for Pinterest and pictures but not for walking long distances.. or sitting in wagons. We toted her home- it was a group effort. Lil' Miss Queenie Cupcake

Obligatory castle picture twenty-nine years in the making   Caris is a Disney pro, having gone with her dad before she turned three It was also Liza's first visit   Before the random fire works + sobbing  We share a love of all things dramatic and spinning tea cups   I told Kent I'd only buy a treat because it was my first visit  What I didn't tell him was that MY FINGERS WERE CROSSED  This photo is titled: I lit er ally can not stand up for another second. I considered planking across the double stroller.  My favorite child is the one that will take smiling pictures with me. Things aren't looking good for my second daughter  And this is my face when we couldn't find our car in the parking lot.  Newbies

I've been hit by the plague since Wednesday. I'm a silent sufferer until a couple days in and then I let me true dramatic self show by sending sick-face selfie texts to my mom and husband and anyone who might write back. I won't go into details (yuck) but I truly don't think I've been this sick since elementary school!   want me to send you a sick face selfie?  Here are 5 perks from my time as a convalescent too dramatic?  1. I've enjoyed seeing Kent as a stay-at-home dad. He takes them to the Y for 2 hours and then takes them back out again in the afternoon. His words, "You gotta keep these kids busy!" While I've been bedridden, I listened to what my life r e a l l y sounds like. Does Liza REALLY say, "mommydaddymommydaddddy" over and over when she wants something? And Caris has these interesting well thought out ideas that I'm too distracted (see Liza above) to hear. I love hearing my life from a distance. 2. Television withou

The frog costume that never made it to the yard sale

Tuesday morning beach trip just because? Don't mind if we do!  Not pictured: Our favorite spot on the beach gone because of Hurricane Matthew, the old man wearing a speedo and my face after taking an unnecessary turn that added ONE HOUR to our drive home.

We went apple picking last week with Kent's sister and our nieces and nephews. It was a great trip because Kent planned the entire outing and I had no expectations. I had no cute outfits packed. I mean, who wears black and white horizontal stripes apple picking ? (Said in my best Valley Girl voice) I had no perfect pictures that I wanted to snag. I was just blissfully along for the ride and it was a great lesson in kicking my expectations to the curb.  We ate the apples that had already fallen to the ground  which I think is legal in apple picking? Making memories with cousins  Warm doughnuts!  Please zoom in on the two happy parents holding two fart head grumpy girls

Making:  (soon) Trick or treat costumes  Cooking: Tonight-- turkey kielbasa, rice and vegetables  Drinking: I bought 3 (12) packs of soda for $8 today. What a deal!  Reading: News headlines but not the articles because...politics  Wanting: A bag of chocolate beside me right now. Mini kit kats? Reese cups? Hershey kisses?  Looking: For cheap "oops" paint at Lowes/Home Depot for our hammock stand  Eating: We snuck some chocolate frosted brownies from a meal that I gave to a new mom  Wishing:  For a better parenting day than we had today WHERE IS THAT CHOCOLATE  Enjoying: Hosting small group twice a month  Thinking: About the holidays. Group hug everyone.  Celebrating: A clean house (see above "hosting a small group twice a month") Loving: Rediscovering the fall smocked dress for Caris in the closet today Hoping: For a stress-free, easy breezy morning before church tomorrow  Needing:  To fold seventeen thousand articles of clothing that sit in my li

We love to garden with Gigi and pick HUGE green beans  We like to color with a foreign object known as a marker   We make pudding  We catch up on the latest news with Pops   and watch TV in Papa's chair   We enjoy ringing Yaya's dinner bell   and cozy sister time watching a video  (so Kent and Pops can have one uninterrupted conversation)