I figured since Christmas is coming up, I had better show our Halloween pictures!!

So this is what Ana and Ethan decided to be. A cowgirl and doctor. The cowgirl stuff were mostly all things we already had in our dress up. Ethan's outfit came from the dress-up section at MEIJERS. It was on sale.

Ana Mae. You can't see it, but she is even wearing cowboy boots that Ethan got from his cousin!! The horsie was a Christmas gift many years ago. The bandana is mine, and the jacket is Ethan's. The hat is from the dollar store. She was so cute, except she had a hard time getting treats while holding a horse. And holding on to her hat as it was foam and quite easy to blow off. (Notice how she has to have her puppy in the picture)!

Here's Ethan as a doctor. He is cutting Lucas open with scissors. You can't see it, but he's grinning behind the mask! Ah hah! Finally!!!!! I'm sure glad he's not a real doctor. He's kinda scary sometimes.

Lucas and his humungous pumpkin. That HE, let me repeat, HE, had to get the guts out of! No help from ANYONE! The pumpkin says freaky on the top. (One of his favorite words). And there are bats below it. Yuck.

Me and my pumpkin.

Caught... again.

Ana seems to have this thing where she falls asleep on our animals. First Woody, now Collar Dude. Grandpa and Grandma were over and Ethan came into the living room to tell us that Ana fell asleep with Collie. We went in there and saw them. C.D. was actually asleep!!! It was adorable!

Collie wakes up. What's going on??

A close-up picture

Three Legs

One day I tied together Ana and Ethan's legs so they could have a three leg race. They liked it a lot, but kept toppling over. Ethan, the serious one, would come up with a plan so they could walk and run together, but Ana would get this grin on her face, twinkle in her eye, and fall over "accidentally" so Ethan would fall with her.

Look how Ana hooks her arm over Ethan to support her weight. He's basically her servant.

Umm, I think they're gonna fall. This isn't looking good.

Funny pictures

Lucas, Ethan, and Ana...

Ana's Hair

These pictures were taken in February of 2009.

Yes, this is how Ana's hair looks when it isn't in those braids or pony tails!

There's a lot of it..

How long it is.. (See why she hates getting her hair done??) Do you really blame her?

We had a professional hair stylist braid Ana's hair one time. After a LOT of screaming and crying that she needed to take a nap, Ana's hair looked like this.

All those teeny, tiny braids!

This is how Ana's hair looks now. Every few weeks, Mom has to wash, shampoo, and comb out every curl, then braid it. (This usually takes two days as it is quite the process). This hair style works out really well! We're pretty happy with it. Occasionally Ana asks me to pull her hair up like mine, so I pull all the braids into one big pony tail. Then she has a new hair style! :)

Last Winter

Our family- Last Christmas. Ana is adorable, but it's amazing how much we've changed!

Ana and Ethan and their snowman we all worked hard on.

You see, this snowman is a gardener. He is planting old beans(seeds) and has a shovel in hand. And, actually, we are missing that shovel. I wonder if we lost it after we used it for this handsome snowman.

Ana and Ethan with the gingerbread house last year. Those things are a PAIN!

But wasn't it pretty??!!

But take a look at this one! Uh huh! This is Luke and mine. Butterscotch chips surround a pond. We have evergreen trees, a path, and lots of candy. We had SO much trouble with this! The frosting was a pain.

HI! I'm back!

This is Collar Dude, our cat. He wanted to say "Hi!"