Funniest.video.ever compliments of Madison

And what is your opinion of beauty pagents?  P.S This is over 1 year old.

Halloween 2012

 Rylee and her friend Aubrey as the cutest ballerina ghosts I've ever seen.  I made these tulle skirts for the girls at YW camp, and decided to make them again in white for these girls costumes.

 This is Maddie looking RAD (80's term of course, and the girls HATE it when I say rad. Rad, rad, rad) with her friend Hannah.  She's pumped up and ready to go get a pillowcase full of candy.

This is Maddie looking SAD.  She is sad because this is all the candy she got.  Poor Maddie.

And, for posterities sake Halloween over the years:

 2003

 2004

 2005

2006

Selfies with Maddie

She agreed to be my date for the night, and I agreed to take as many 'selfies' as she wanted.  Even while driving.  Too bad she ran out of photo storage on her phone.

Waiting patiently...

Sadee, Zowee and Tobee Toby waiting their turn for some dinner.  

Pep Squad for Maddie

Madison joined the Johnson High pep squad this year! She loves it most days, except Mondays when she has to stay until 7:30pm and Fridays when we pick her up from the school tired and hungary at 11:00pm.  We spent August eating beans and rice in order to get her uniform and pay dues, but she's really loving it so I guess it paid off!  She's made lots of new friends and has some great new dance moves.  We are proud of her!

 J-A-G-S, JOHNSON, JOHNSON, GO JAGUARS!

Storms

The theme for this past 6 months month.

First day of HIGH SCHOOL and 7th grade 2012!

This is how I feel about 2 weeks before school is about to begin:

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.  ~Edgar W. Howe

And this is how I feel the day before it begins:

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scares me to death. Thankfully, we have stalwart young women who are both responsible, moral, natural born leaders and will hopefully continue to choose good friends and will be able to understand what they're being taught because they passed me up academically about 2 years ago. 

Actually, this is Madison's second day.  We were running late the first day and only got this gem below:

Rylee, so pretty in pink!

Thumbs up for this cute backpack, which took us 21,673 hours to find.

When in Texas, do as the Texans do...

Yee Haw!  We done went to the rodeo this here weekend and had a dandy ole time!

How I spent the first 6 months of living here...

BEFORE:

 I'm documenting our kitchen remodel on my Inspire the Inside blog.

AFTER:

Soccer Shenanigans

Rylee did such a fantastic playing Ms. Hannigan (the nice one) in her school play "Soccer Shenanigans".  Her character was an over-protective, adoring mother of a nerdy boy who didn't possess soccer skills but wanted to be on the team.  She definitely got the most laughs and had such a great stage presence. Encore, encore!