New Necklace

A student made this lei for me at the end of last year. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that it became a cat toy very quickly when I brought it home. I had totally forgotten about it until Noelle dug it out of the cat stroller the other day. Now she won't take it off. She wants to wear it morning, noon and night! I'm surprised to not see her tangled in it!

College Week!

It's college week again at my school. Noey got into the spirit with me on Monday morning! Go T-Birds!

My Little Pony

This is the pony I saw at Home Goods last week. I told Dave then (trying to guilt him into buying it) that Home Goods is a store where a product is here today, gone tomorrow. We found that out yesterday when we went back for a bench that was gone. I pointed out the pony that Daddy needed to buy. At the checkout I was voicing my disgust with missing out on the bench. Dave asked about the pony. We decided to go back and look at him again. Well, two guys were back there, each with a pony in hand. Dave gasped, knowing his ass was grass if they took that pony. I just blurted out, "that's the one I want!" and thankfully he handed it over. I don't know who he was more afraid of, me, or making Noey cry as she was squealing and reaching out for it! Luckily for him, he did the right thing. I think they took the other one for a kid in their family. Noey would not take her eyes off of me and the pony and gleefully tried him out at home. Any suggestions on a name for this here pony?

He'll look fab in Noey's new playroom!


She bounces up and down on him and hugs his neck. Too bad she wouldn't pet the real pony on Friday!! We'll take her back when it is daylight and buy a couple rides!


Can you tell I have a thing for ponies? If only my parents had bought me one when I was little...sigh.

1 Year Pictures!

So we are 5 days early but next week is going to be crazy so I wanted to get Noelle's pictures done. Well, it was an adventure. I'm surprised we have anything usable! She was absolutely terrified of the guy taking her pictures. I had to peel her off of me every 30 seconds and quite a few of the pictures on the disk show off her terror well. Hopefully by Christmas she'll be ready to ham it up for a professional camera! (So much for Halloween costume pics!)





Cookie will protect me!


I don't care if I'm 1! Get me out of here!










Are we done yet?


Maybe they won't see me take off with this...


Last picture? Ok, I'll strike a pose.

Halloween Town!

We took Noey to the pumpkin patch last night to ride a pony! She was more concerned about everyone around her and all the things to look at rather than the pony! I tried to get her to pet him but she wouldn't and she wouldn't hold on! She's gonna be a future stunt rider! I'm still a little dizzy from the ride...we were walking in circles at a pretty darn fast clip!












Post pony ride happiness!


"What is this stuff you call hay?"


She looks so grown up when she wears pants and shoes! She is still not used to standing with shoes on so that is why she struck the pose that she did!


Noey and daddy.


Noey being Noey.


Cutest pumpkin in the patch!


So many pumpkins, so little time!


I'll take this one!

New Chair

We were going to wait until Christmas to get her a little chair of her own but we found this one at Home Goods for a good price. She really liked the rocking chair they had but I don't think it would rock well on our carpet! We also found a fabulous pony that Dave refused to purchase but I may just stop there sometime this week and get it myself!!!


Room for Noey and Gizzy!

Happy Hour!

Girl wants some hooch with her dinner!