Black Friday

William and I again decided to brave the shopping elements of black Friday! We were again very successful! We were able to start and complete our Christmas shopping all on Friday! We get all excited when it comes time for our big shopping experience! We always manage to have many good laughs at ourselves and others on this day. We celebrate our anniversary on this day also. It fell on Tuesday this year, we celebrated that day by seeing a movie with, MaKenzie, some friends, MaKall, some friends, MaKayla and Cade. We had a great time!! Anyway, on our big shopping day we managed to purchase everything on our list except stocking stuffers!! I am super excited! Tree is up, gifts are bought, who's wrapping?!!?

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was a wonderful day for us!! We went to Memaw's house and ate and ate and ate. It was beautiful outside and the kids enjoyed playing with Andrea's boys. They had a great time and everyone enjoyed being together! We all have so much to be thankful for!! We hope your Thanksgiving was as wonderful as ours!

looking @ pictures
Nap time

playing in the leaves

all played out

Turkey time again

posing for sis

the Gun show

Memaw with a few of the "greats"

Me & Beck

Homecoming 20008

Here are a few of the homecoming pictures. I am having trouble loading them for some crazy reason. I will add a few more later. The girls looked amazing, the boys looked pretty good too! Really though, it is amazing how they all clean up!! We were so proud of how they all looked!

showing some love
Tater & Tot, really it is them

The girls and their Cade's

OK! She's in, shut the door!

Night time readiness

All Smiles!!!

Looking Good Guys

Awesome!!

Could they be any cuter

Final touches

Wow! We are looking good!!!

Waitin on a Woman......

Daytime preparations

Tonight's Game!!

Not much to tell, just wanted to say that we (MaKayla's team) beat Mayflower 34-32 tonight!!! It was an amazing game and the crowd was so into it, both sides were going crazy!! Go Hornets Go!!!

Back Again

So I realize that I may not be condsidered a good blogger. Thats ok, I accept it and I am moving on with the blog. We have been busy as usual. Ball games seem to take up most of our time. The girls are doing great. MaKenzie has had three practice games and one real game, winning all. MaKayla's team is doing good, considering they have no size whatsoever. HAHA! How do you grow tall girls, we definetly need to know!!???!! Haha! MaKall has been deer hunting and riding Jack. This is one of the few months out of the year that we don't have baseball. MaKayla was chosen as a Homecoming maid, so we have been shopping for dresses and ties for Cade. I think we have it all together and I am so glad because Homecoming is on Friday, the 21st. MaKenzie is practicing alot, she absolutely loves basketball. She is getting to be a pretty good ball handler and shooter, if I don't say so myself. Here are the pictures from Fall Festival. We had pony rides and a petting zoo the night of Fall Festival. The kids had so much fun, some never get to be around animals. MaKenzie is so not about dressing up, lucky for us it was a Wild West theme. Memaw made her outfit, isn't it great!

How cute is that!

Posing by the background

MaKenzie & Luke (Rachel's) in petting zoo

Luke getting his pony ride

catching up with odds and ends

I realize that I could go down in the blogging books as the worlds worst blogger!! I am going to try and make up for that. So much has happened since I was last on. We went to state fair (no camera), had our youth rodeo (no camera), played our first basketball game (again with the camera thing),finished up with fall ball, MaKenzie had a birthday, and are in the middle of spirit week at school. Basketball for MaKayla is going ok, she is a starter on the jr. high team, which is great for an eight grader. She really tries hard and is a hustler. State fair was pretty good, they placed in the top 10 which is great for having 20+ goats in their class. We had our youth rodeo and it was so much fun!! Everyone there seemed to have a good time. MaKenzie had her 10th birthday this week! Yes, I said 10! She is such a wonderful child, seems so much older than 10 to us, thanks to hanging out with the older kids her whole life! She wanted to go to see High School Musical 3 for her birthday! It opened on Friday, so I take her, two friends, MaKayla and Cade to try to see this movie that people are going crazy about. We get there early and are first in line, the girls didn't even want the workers to get in the door in front of them. They were so excited, me and Cade, not so much. Anyone who knows what the movie is about and knows me, knows that I would have rather been anywhere else, haha! What we do for our kids!! We are all doing great, still busy, fall festival is this weekend, can't say that I will be sad when it is over. MaKayla is playing ball a few nights a week, MaKenzie is practicing, we committed MaKall to a tournament team that will be playing all over. Yeah, we are crazy! Again, what we do for those kids!!

girls waiting to be let in

MaKall getting his last fall ball trophy

Goat whisperer

MaKayla on her new horse

Kenz on the birthday present

MaKall & Jack
MaKayla & Cade in the theater

Kenz showing @ state

on the way to state fair

MaKall & teamate, Dylon Kellar
the girls & snacks, in theater

a good view of MaKayla & Bay

Scattergories

It's harder than it looks! Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things. Nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

WHAT IS YOUR NAME: Misti
BOY NAME: Matt
4 LETTER WORD: math
GIRL NAME: Mary
OCCUPATION: Manager
A COLOR: magenta
SOMETHING YOU WEAR: mittens
BEVERAGE: milk
FOOD: macaroni
SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: mirror
A PLACE : Miami
REASON FOR BEING LATE: marriage (haha)
SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: MaKall!!!!!