Matthew is 15

We had a few friends over, lit the fire pit, and made jambalaya.

This is his "friend" Katie.

Some of his buddies from school, getting ready for a late
night game of Capture the flag.

Ian's Thanksgiving Feast

Ian's "school" had a Thanksgiving Feast Thursday and parents were invited. The teachers made everything so nice and the food was good, too!

A Little Bathroom Humor!

Here is Mr. Ty getting dried after a bath...he loves the tub, water, bathing. But, he's not the biggest fan of getting dried off and dressed...no smile this time!



As some of you know, we've been traveling the road to potty training...Ian is getting the hang of it, as evidenced in the picture.


(Yes, I know he will kill me one day for this but right now, I'm bigger!)

For Elise

Hey Girl - I hope you see this. We changed internet providers and bellsouth turned off my account without warning. So, I lost my address book. My new address is "shannonvino@gmail.com". If I don't hear from you soon, I will send you a note via snailmail. Love you, S

Halloween

Our Cowboy and his Horse helped us hand out candy.
This isn't a costume. This is a real cowboy.
Getting Ty the horse ready for the evening.
"HeeYah", roughly translated as "Yeeha".
Did some Trick or Treating with Anderson, wearing the back-up cowboy hat.
Ty fell asleep on our neighbor Mitzi at the neighborhood block party.

More Homecoming Pictures

This one is for Uncle Jeff...

Homecoming Queen

Our girl won Homecoming Queen. We are exceedingly proud! Unfortunately, the photographer didn't do too well. But we got a few....

It was freezing...her teeth were chattering.

This is Em with another senior girl.

Goofiness on the way to the game.

It's Fall, Y'all!

We went to a pumpkin patch a couple of weekends ago...so much fun. We rode a hayride out to the pumpkins, picked our pumpkins, played in the hay maze, and saw some animals on the way.


Me and the boys before the big hayride.

Daddy, did you know that hayrides can make you very thirsty!

Don't tell Ian that its too heavy...

Our little punkin' in the pumpkin patch!

The Cowboy

Ok, for about a month and a half, Ian has taken a liking to cowboys, cowboy boots, and cowboy hats...really anything that has to do with a cowboy. In fact, a few times he has looked at me or Jeff and simply stated, "I love cowboys". Anyway, when we draw on the white board, I always have to draw a cowboy for him. Here is my very sad attempt at a cowboy (but hey, my boy loves it)...




Tonight, he and Granny were drawing. Granny had been commissioned to draw a kitty cat and Ian was scribbling...so we thought! He looks at me and says "look, my cowboy". I look up, expecting to see lots of black and blue lines all over the board but much to my surprise was this...



Now, I'm not kidding myself, I realize we have not stumbled upon raising the next Van Gogh or Monet but come on...this was a pretty incredible fluke! So glad I got the picture snapped before he went wild with the markers...

Granny and the Boys

Mom is in town and had her third of six scheduled chemo treatments today. While we look forward to her visits having nothing to do with illness, these 2 little boys light up when they see their Granny.