OUR LITTLE JAKER THE BAKER

His little Bye Bye at the end is my favorite!

HAIR BOWS

This is my very impressive custom made hair bow collection for Savanna. It is one of my prized possesions, silly I know. This picture doesn't even come close to doing it justice! If you double click the picture you can get a close up, but it still isn't even as awesome as they are. My friend has spent hours making me bows and taking the time to match them to specific outfits! : )

MORE NASCAR

More Nascar, explanations below. : )

NASCAR AGAIN!

So our friends the Vaclaws told us back in the summer that they had extra tickets for November's NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway. Well of course we jumped at the chance to go with them! I mean having a whole weekend to ourselves, no kids, good friends, tickets to the race in an air conditioned /catered suite, free hotel room AND free room service!!! Can you blame us? We had an awesome time! We got to go down to the pit road and see all the pit boxes, or as Mark calls them War Wagons (don't ask, he has a whole list of, in my opinion, silly words and phrases that he uses sometime just to bug me I think) Anyhow, we had a great time. Sundays race was a bummer for me because the driver I like is Jimmie Johnson and he got spun out and wrecked in the 2nd lap! Lame! And then my second choice was Kyle Bush who made it as leader through most of the race, but ran out of gas with 1 lap to go! Crazy! Oh well, we really did have a great weekend! The picture of Mark in the tunnel is where you have to walk under the race track to get to pit road. And the yellow camero is "Bumblebee" fro the movie Transformers. We took the pic for Jakob because he loves Bumblebee so much. It was a really cool car with the Transformers insignia all over.

Pumpkins

I love holiday clearance and I went specifically so I could get Jakob his favorite transformers costume for dress up. Savanna gets so mad when he puts on her dresses cuz he is a boy after all. So I have been slowly collecting boy dress up stuff. Jake was so excited to see his new

"bubba-bee" (bumblebee the transformer) costume! He has been wearing it off and on every day since I bought it. Then he goes and gets his bumblebee toy that Mimi gave him this summer and shoots everything in sight. I love it! Such a boy!

Grandma Rainey sent the kids cute Halloween shirts this year which they all wore to school. Audrey got to dress up for "Hippie Day" and this was what we came up with. I don't have any hippie clothes, or much that will pass for it these days. Once upon a time I did. Although I don't know if it was hippie, or "Bag Lady Chic". = ) And we carved pumpkins too. Savanna was gonna have nothing to do with it because it was "tota-wee Be-scustin" (totally disgusting) and it smelled "willy bad"! But in the end she did touch...a little.

(you can still see Jake's bruised forehead.)

A VERY SUCCESSFUL HALLOWEEN!

Not long after we got there Jake shucked his costume in a room of the church. So we just called him a bruiser on account of the giant bruise in the middle of his forehead and the heart tattoo "mom" shirt that he was wearing. He got the bruise cuz he was mad at me and kept running into me and backing up and running into me again. On about the 4th impact, I stepped aside to scold him just as he was coming at me and he glanced off my leg and hit the cabinet. That'll learn him right? No cuz then mom felt bad, and a few days later he ran smack into the table and rebruised the same spot, and a few days after that, I opened the door to come in the house, not knowing that Jake was coming out of the house and.... you guessed it, cracked him again in the same spot. Possible permenant bruising, but only time will tell, if we manage not to smack the same spot again. I put him to bed the other night, and said "Ni-night Tiny." He sat up in bed and said "I Jake". Sorry I said! "Ni-night Jake."