Silly Pictures

My sister Janae requested some silly pictures of the girls for a Christmas project. Here are a couple of the highlights.

COOKIES!!!

Here's a time-lapse picture series of cookies being made. The girls are great helps in the kitchen...or sometimes great disasters.

Halloween

Kezia and Ivy's dream came true--just like Pinnochio wished to become a real boy, they got their closest taste to becoming real puppies. With some quick cutting and glueing and sewing, and a really ugly, protruding warewolf/dog nose, the scene came together. As we were about to head out the door, Nate thought, "What about us? What are we going to wear?" A trip down the costume-strewn isle that resembled a vandalized horror shop: rubber body parts, witch's hats, white, stringy wigs in a tangle on the floor, black cloaks, goblin masks, and face paint threatening to fall off their hangers on the wall--revealed our last-minute clown costumes. A classic.

Because the young men were in charge, Nate thought that he had to attend the trunk or treat, which is where you trick or treat around a parking lot and people near their decorated or undecorated cars pour candy into your bags, whether or not you say trick or treat. It is a halloween disgrace in my opinion. It ended up he didn't have to be there, and perhaps it was a good thing after all, because our girls got tired quickly. But we had a great time. Now, two weeks later, I have pawned off almost all the candy to hungry teenagers.

"Trick or Treat!--we prefer bones and rubber newspapers!"

Kezia, Ivy, and Jack (o-lantern)

Kelli, Erica, fellow bloggers, help!

Do you know why Ivy's picture turned vertical and how I can fix it?

Ivy practicing her moves on Daddy's board

I SURRENDER

Aloha! Well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right? After confusion of receivers of our monthly family updates and difficulty emailing pictures, I have succombed to the world of blogspot. Inspired by my sister in laws Erica and Kelli (they make it look so easy) I am ready to give it a shot. But it will still have my same flair: Total practicality with bare-bones creativity. Hey, at least I am getting the word out of what is going on out here in the pacific ocean.