She also took a nice portrait of my oldest daughter, however that nasty old ball in Mocha's mouth kinda ruins the pic. Oh well. Still like havin' pics of the family to share!
Thanksgiving day was a lot of fun. Before going over to my in-laws for lunch, we stopped by a local hospital to see our friends who had a new baby. She was Natalie's kindergarden teacher and now stay at home mom. Seeing their precious little son was so sweet. 
Thanksgiving day was also my mother-in-law's birthday, so we took over some flowers to celebrate and Joelle and Natalie picked out the color of baloons they wanted to have around the house. I had to crack up as we watched them blow those things up! Too cute!
Natalie's eyes buggin' out of her head as she blew up that baloon was hilarious to observe!
Today, we put up our Christmas decorations. Doreen and I were talking and last year, we just put up the minimal stuff of what we had. This year - we got past the lazy part and put all our stuff up! Here's Natalie working away at getting the ornaments on the tree.
Here's Joelle stretching as high as she can (plus standing on a stool) to put an ornament up.
Took a pic of the kids and the flash washed out the lights, then found another setting that left the lights and looked really cool! My precious little girls.
Another shot of my kiddos and the decorations we have up through the kitchen and into the back.
Couldn't pass this one up either and just had to share with you how cute my two favorite girls are!
Last Sunday when I was on my trip, Natalie got invited over to a friends house. So for fun Doreen and Joelle went out to 'play' with/in the leaves. They spent some time at the beginning raking them up.
After they had a good pile, Joelle started to climb into this tree.
BANZAI!!! She jumps down and lands in the big pile of leaves. Man that looks like lots of fun! :)
Every year at the school my kids go to they have a Thanksgiving Simulation. Which means the kids in grades K - 4 get to dress up as a Pilgrim or Indian for the day and then go around to different stations around the school and do different things like the Pilgrims and Indians did so long ago. They ground corn, made candles and corn-husk dolls. They played pilgrim games and indian games as well as much more. Then we all meet in the fellowship hall for a great 'feast,' just like the one so long ago - only it was vegetarian and not as much food and didn't last as long - so we had one in spirit. But it was still yummy!
I was invited to teach the kids Indian games, so I agreed and started growing my hair for the express purpose of being an indian and having an actual mowhawk. Well it worked. Here are Natalie and I at the beginning of the day. I really like this picture of the two of us!
See, proof years later that a Pilgrim and an Indian can get along! Here's Joelle and I. By the way, I gave myself that mowhawk, wanted Doreen to, but got home too late from my trip and she had to get to school, so I took an extra mirror the clippers and zipped all that 'shag' right off my head. It was kinda fun! The teachers and kids all got a big kick out of it and a number of times people wanted to give my hair a 'tug' to see if was really real. (Course after the day was over I had to blitz home and shave it off and get to work! GRIN - it was definetly worth it!)+074.jpg)
Here I am with a small group telling them why indians played games, what kind of games and then we'd actually try playing some. Not always successful, but we had fun!
Here's my Natalie after she visited the 'face' painting station. PRECIOUS!+028.jpg)
And of course after lunch we got a shot of all the dressed up adults, who were intersted, together for a group pic. Not sure what the 'indians' on the back row were up to - but it sure was fun! Then check out the Principal of the school (front row, 3rd person from the right) She was a Pildian. Half Pilgrim and half Indian. .jpg)
Just takin' a few pics for the fun of it yesterday. We all just got our "Have Mercy" shirts and wore them for a pic or two. 
Doreen and I had a casserole competition today. 
Love taking pics of my girls, especially when they are photos that I can use later for blackmail! Waaa ha, ha, ha!.jpg)
One afternoon at a Burger King playplace, Natalie wanted me to take a picture of her climbing ability. Love her 'proud' "look daddy, I did it" smile!.jpg)
One day after picking them up from school, they both said they were tired and lay down like this as I drove home. Precious!
One evening, these two were hyper, so to get some of the wiggles out, we put on some music and had 'em dance some of those wiggles out! Very, VERY Cute!
We've had a project we've been wanting to get completed for about a year. Well - last month I finally started it and worked on it on and off and finally finished most of it today. 
to this side of our driveway so rude people parking vehicles on the road will be less likely to park in front of the mailbox and prevent the postal worker to deliver out mail. Then we also wanted to mulch this side of the driveway in and plant some Iris bulbs around the tree and 4 Azalia plants we have.
Here's the start with some of the black weed-proof paper 
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Pickin up some topsoil to fill in the old sidewalk I dug out all the gravel.
Spreadin the dirt.
Now with grass seed and hay down, we're just gonna wait for it to grow and then the whole icky sidewalk, outta site outta mind!
Here's the mulch pit on the left of the driveway with the 4 Azalia plants and 7 Iris bulbs planted around the tree. Just gonna cross our fingers and hope they all grow exceptionally well! Then it will be all worth it!
We've had a project working on the landscaping of our front yard. (I'll post some before/after pics when the job's completed!) Anyway, we got Phase 2 of 3 done today. I got some help from my little girls putting down some grass seed. We were 'Sowin' the seed of green.' 
Then the girls friends came over and helped spread some hay over the seeds.
Just looking at all things Denver Broncos on-line this morning and found these jokes that cracked me up. Yeah - they are my team, but that doesn't mean I can't laugh a a funny joke too! :)
Sunday, Nov 16 was an awesome day. Joelle and I, along with other friends and family went to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA to watch the visiting Denver Broncos play the Atlanta Falcons!
Yesterday finally arrived. Joelle and I were ready to go, even anxious! :) (We asked Natalie if she wanted to go a number of times and she said "No" every time. She has NO interest in football. That's OK. Doreen was planning on going, but has 4 exams in next 7 days and plus a Mock Board Exam on Thursday and didn't feel like she could take the time to go. She needed some SERIOUS study time.)
We headed down to Atlanta with my in-laws and Kalvin, Nathan, Tracy, Cheryl, Cliff and Bonnie. Parking around the Georgia dome is like $30, so we parked just inside the city limits of ATL and took the MARTA - subway - into the stadium. A new experience for my kiddo.
It was wild going into the stadium - we had to line up in front of the doors with the men and women segregated and everyone was 'patted' down before entering the building. Interesting. Climbed up 3 levels and found our section, row and specific seats.
Section 331, row 9 seats 8&9. Fortunately we had some other Bronco fans seated right behind us and we were surrounded by a sea of Black and Red! Would have liked to been closer to the field, but that was too expensive. We had a really good view of the field and game though.
Game time was 1p, so we left home just before 10a, so we got there and in the first quarter went to grab a couple personal pizzas and a soda for Joelle and me. Each pizza $7 - OUCH. That's getting crazy expensive, but worth it for JP to have the full game experience! 
It was a very good game. The Broncos eventually beat the Falcon 24 to 20. It was back and forth the whole game. Made for an exciting game. The crowd was absolutely into it and at points it was deafeningly (is that a word? GRIN) loud in there. Cool! Of course - it was awesome the Broncos pulled out the win!
Here's Joelle sitting with her grandparents who went with us as we waited for the MARTA to take us back to our vehicle. We stopped at Taco bell (Where we got more food for the both of us and spent less than we did at the game) and headed home to end an excellent day!
You ever wonder where the old power-poles go? 
Joelle's been wanting to ride my bike recently for some reason. So we gave it a shot and well, it's just too tall. So I suggested that she try Doreen's. It was a challenge to get going. In fact - she couldn't until I held the bike so she could get both feet on the pedals and then she did just fine. The hand-brakes were a new experience for her, but she did ok with it.
Monday night before my trip we were getting ready to put the girls to bed, but first we had to take part in a 'feast' they prepared for us in Joelle's room.
Usually we don't like to eat late, but this 'meal' was definetly worth it!
Here's Natalie pouring us a "soup."
Joelle's pouring us some 'peach' flavored tea.
Doreen's enjoying the tea! 
