Pig Tails

What do you get when you cross pigtails, a blankie, a quasi-professional mommy photographer, and lots of sillyness? Lots of Ansley. Check out the crazy "flash" photo... sometimes too much flash can be a bad thing... it's still an interesting pic.

Gobble Gobble

Thanksgiving, what a wonderful day... family, food, football (albeit poor football), and naps. Actually, our Thanksgiving happened in the order described above. It's safe to say that 75% of the people in our house were napping at some point during the afternoon yesterday. Also, an interesting factoid I learned from my aunt Beth: the average American eats at least 5000+ calories per Thanksgiving meal. How many Big Macs is that? Happy Thanksgiving to you all... get some rest this weekend.

















The girls enjoy some warm cider and cool whip before lunch.
























Yum





















A rare family photo op. Four smiles... very rare.

















Cute. Enough said.


















What you don't see in this picture is that fact that I just sliced two turkeys. Somehow I inherited the job of slicing turkeys a few years back and now I do it!

















Cassie, Kennedy, Anna, and Aunt Beth

















My dad, Aunt Beth, and Gi Gi


















The feast. Notice my plate to the right/bottom of the picture? Double yum.

















Aunt Cassie and Kennedy display their gingerbread house. If there are a few missing pieces, I guess this happens when Kennedy makes a house with candy.

Picking Pumpkins

In lieu of uploading any recent pictures and blogging on a regular basis, please enjoy these pictures taken during our visit to the pumpkin patch in October! :) The girls are getting way too big....

More Halloween Pics

On further request from Aunt Katie, please see Kennedy and Ansley's costumes below. If you cannot figure out what they are dressed up like for Halloween, the best possible description is a princess/tinkerbell/fairy dancer... dressed up for a a cold night.

Again, this was a really fun night... we're still working through their bags of Kennedy (tonight, Ansley had a mischevious smile after sneaking a piece of Kennedy's chocolate) and we should be through it my May.

Also, sorry that these pics are in reverse order... very strange.

Post trick-or-treating. Suckers are yum.

Almost home...

A little action shot. You can almost make out Kennedy's Tinkerbell outfit under sweatshirt.

I LOVE this picture. She just happend to walk through a 4-foot swath of light when I took this picture.

Just getting started...

Loot

Guess who made out fairly well on Halloween?

Colts Party at Kyle and Becky's

Last Sunday was the perfect mixture of entertaining football (i.e. Colts against the Rams), great food (ala Becky), great fall weather (thanks God), and friends and family. We also finally got to meet baby Charlie (which probably should have happened long ago).

The worst thing about a Sunday is when it ends... which sadly happens every week.

Thanks Kyle and Becky... especially for the wings.

Head Shaking

Does any adult reading this like to violently shake your head for 30+ seconds at a time? I imagine this would be painful to do for a time span for more that 3 seconds... in fact, it makes me a little sick to think about it. However, Ansley enjoys head shaking, spinning in circles until she falls down, and any other movement that makes her extremely dizzy. Very interesting eh?

Autumn is here!

Welcome to my first picture-less blog! It's officially my favorite time of year: the leaves are changing colors, hot chili should be cooking on the stove, football is on the 'ol television, and I don't have to cut the grass anymore... yay.

Happy 1st b-day Anna Landis!

Hello blog world. To update you, dad (me) is Home Alone this weekend with the girls. Molly is being the great sister that she is and is supporting her sister Emily in watching her run the Chicago Marathon today.

What have I done with the girls this weekend? Lots of fun stuff... movie and pizza night on Friday, a special trip to Old Navy for Molly (today was Old Navy's 50th anniversary and Molly literally drew me a map to find a couple of vests that she wanted... they were on super sale), a birthday lunch for Lauren Landis, and finally I made vegetable soup and got to hang out with my brother-in-law Pat and his daughter Ella. Sorry for the long run-on sentence... yikes.

We've missed Molly, but it's been a really fun weekend in hanging out with the girls... however, it will be great to have her home. I can't imagine how exhausting it must be to be a single parent... my prayers and encouragement goes out to all of the single parents out there. It's hard work!

Enjoy the pics below... they are from Anna's party. Again, we are blessed to have such great friends like the Landis' crew. Goot times... and peace out,
























Ansley is having very serious thoughts in this picture.


















Mom and dad help Anna blow out the candles.
























More swinging...























Anna banana cake.

More fun with Lightroom

The pictures below are pictures our friend Sarah Awe took when Ansley was a little baby (gosh, she seems so big now). Kids grow up too fast don't they? The pictures below are more attempts to learn how to edit pictures... lots of fun, but I'm very inexperienced! :)