Quirky Quotes

Some more funny talk from our crazy house!

While driving to the store…
Elle: “Do you HAVE the wrong Person?”
Daddy: “What do you mean?”
Elle: “ You have the wrong person in the car?”
Daddy: “Who do we have?”
Elle: “ You don’t have Elle, you have MacKenzie”
Daddy: “ What…. We got the wrong little girl from school???”
Elle: “Yes!!!”

While tucking the kids in
Elle: “A long long time ago when I was in your tummy?”
Mommy: “Yes, when you were a tiny baby.”
Elle: “And I was sooo cute?”
Mommy: “Yes you were the cutest little girl ever.”
Elle: “Then you made me get out so Liam could get in?”

While filling out Christmas tags
Jay: "How do you spell Uncie?" (for Uncie Eric)
Julia: "Duh - M-O-N-K-E-Y"

At a restaurant having dinner, Julia and Elle made a restroom trip..
about 5 min later... loudly, from across the room.
Elle: "Daddy, Daddy... I did really BIG POOPS!!!"
Daddy: Turning red... "Good job, Bug!!"

While doing Elle's hair,
"Mommy, when boys get their hair cut, short, do you see brains?"

Driving around running errands one day,
Elle "Daddy, what do you suppose Kanagaroos eat?"
Daddy "That is a great question, what do you think?"
Elle "Probably just vegatables."

While cleaning up after breakfast one Saturday,
Jay singing Wall Flowers ...
"... and the same black line that was drawn on you,
was drawn on me,
and now its drawn me in....
6 7 and a hard 8".
Kristina "What was that??"
Jay "6 7 and a hard 8"
Kristina laughing.. "Its 6th avenue heart ache!!"

Dressing Up!

Elle and I found some time to play dress up last week.. it was a blast!
She is such a little doll and just loves getting dressed up.
She isn’t doing too bad in her modeling either,
plenty of influence from her big sister!

Here are a few pictures we took.

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Title – Timeless Beauty
I felt like I could have seen this picture before in an
old magazine or ad.

Title – True Happiness
You can just see the happiest little person in those eyes.

Title – The Pout
Awe.. she’s mastered the puppy dog eyes.

White Christmas

Not being native to the Dallas area, Jay and I often miss the snow. Especially at Christmas time. I for one struggle with feeling the spirit while shopping in 70 degree weather.

But, this year was different and on Christmas Eve, we got about 6 hours of steady snow fall. It was wonderful! Just a prefect back drop to baking our santa goodies and wrapping the rest of the presents.

Christmas morning brought the beautiful sunshine and a blanket of white everywhere.
Liam's first Christmas couldn't have been better.
Just perfect!

Picture Perfect

With my Liam and Elle all dressed up for their School's Christmas show, I decided to take some great pictures. They're just the cutest in their Christmas formal wear.

As I posed the children and attempted to capture the perfect holiday shot, Liam and Elle had much different ideas. Finally I gave up.

I later reviewed my collection of photos and laughed aloud.
Sometimes the worst poses turn out to be the sweetest memories.

Our New Baby Boy

As it happened, my loving husband and I finally, after a week or so discussing it, decided to adopt a stray male lab mix a friend found. Unfortunate for us, after having the beautiful creature for a month, she just couldn’t let him go, so our adoption hopes ended.

That’s when we realized we really wanted to add a new dog to our home and we wanted to do it soon so this dog could be close to our aging old Wally and inherit some of his quirks, hopefully the good ones :).

So with that realization, we talked....
Getting the lab would’ve broken the no-shedding and smaller dog size rules we used to think we had. Jay, a now novel fisherman and boat owner, wanted a water dog he could take out often. Whereas me, the self declared “Not a big fan of Dogs”, wanted a trickster, someone I can teach to play frisbee and fetch, and many other possible things…. we both thought of our favorite dogs we know and knew… and both had the same breed in our top 3.

The beautiful, talented, super intelligent, amazingly trainable and agile…. Border Collie!
So for our Christmas present… we adopted this little guy.

Called “Dallas” by his breeders, 7 weeks old and the only one that didn't jump on us or nip when we started to play with the litter. I called him to me and Liam, he walked to us, sat down and stared into my eyes as I talked to him, as if he knew what I was saying. I immediately melted! We’re still deciding his name and are absolutely in love! Even our Elle, who seems to take after Mom a bit more in the dog arena is in love.

We’re sooo excited to teach this guy and look forward to watching him grow with the kids.