Happy Birthday!!!

Here she is having a party in her birthday cake. She thought it was fun to make the mess but she wasn't so sure about eating the cake, and since she is sensitive to lactose we didn't have ice cream. Happy Birthday Sweetie! It's hard to believe that you are one! We sure do love and enjoy you.

First Birthday!!!

We took Gemma to Build-A-Bear for her birthday. She made a bunny and Jade made a Reindeer. It was very fun and she really likes her new bunny, now maybe she will leave my special bunny alone...... somehow even I doubt that :-)

First Haircut

The day before Gemmas first birthday we decided to cut her some bangs. She has so many layers comming in that it looked like her hair was always in her eyes and James said that he thinks bangs are so cute, so I figured that if she has hair like Jade then it will be years before all the layers come in. Jade still has some and we grew out her bangs just this summer. Anyway these are the before and after pictures. Obviously this is the before. :-)

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These are just some fun pictures from the last two weeks. Gemma and I have been sick so I didn't take very many.....This is "Tuffy" our kitty , he is under my bed.This is Mark's new kitty he adopted her a few days after we got Tuffy. She is a lilac point Siamese and she is very pretty and sweet. We went up to see his place and to see the cat. She dosen't have a name yet.
This is Gemma and her blankie that she loves very much , she likes to wear it around so I tie a scrunchie around the ends so it stays on.
Gemma and Tuffy

Newest family member

This is our new kitty. We went and adopted him this morning. He dosen't have a name yet, but we are thinking. Anyway I have been talking to James about it for a while and the kids really wanted a pet so we looked online and narrowed it down to 3 then we went down to see them in person and we all liked this little guy, he is 9 weeks old and already nutered. He is a lynx point siamese and we are happy to have him.

Halloween

Jade was a "pirate princess" for Halloween this year and Gemma was a parrot. The first picture was taken very early in the morning ( she has to be there at 7:50 am) on our way to school, so that is why it is a little dark. Then at 12:30 her school had a costume parade and I took Gemma over to watch and then help out with Jade's class party, her teacher was very nice and let Gemma come, and she was a very good girl.
I don't have a picture of Gemma in her costume because she hated it, I think that my mom got a few I will have to check and see. We went trick-or-treating in Grandma Rory's neighborhood, and we had pumpkin shaped pizza for dinner, it was yummy :-)
Jade had a great time trick-or-treating and she got a big bag full of treats. Gemma didn't have as much fun she hated her costume and she didn't care for walking around the neighborhood and she didn't like being in the stroller after dark, and to top it all off she face planted it and got a big bonk right in the middle of her forehead...sheesh what a kid :-)

Tending

We got to tend Jack and Gabriela on Monday the 29th of October. Chris and Jana wanted to go to dinner, so they brought over pizza and root beer floats and the kids of course :-)
We had a good time they were very good and there were no tears. Yay!

funny pictures

Here is James sleeping in MY chair ha-ha, he claimes he was just resting his eyes, but I had turned off the tv and the fish tank, all the lights and took this with a flash. Yeah right just resting :-)
Gemma has recently decided that her "favorite" toy is my special bunny...(it is a build a bear bunny that has a recording of her heartbeat in it, from when I was pregnant with her) She gets it down at every possible chance, and hurry's to give it loves and kisses before I get there :-)