Our Beautiful Daughter

A few weeks ago I took Anastasia out for her senior pictures. We had a great time, just the two of us and the camera. We took the computer with us as well so we could upload after each shoot and decide if we liked them or not. The weather was not real cooperative as it was a little darker than I wanted it to be and it started raining at the end. You can see some of the rain on a couple of them. The rain didn't spoil our party, we had fun. I still can't believe that I have an 18 year old daughter. What a beautiful person she is, inside and out!

Black Saturday!

Yep, it was that time again. Each year my mom, sister and I go shopping on black Friday. Hollee had to work Friday so they came over from Redmond on Saturday and off we went. Nikki had to work so she couldn't join us, next year though. Hollee's baby Dulcie joined us for the day, she was a great little shopper! We started our shopping experience with lunch to fuel us up for the big afternoon. After that we were off. We shopped all afternoon and just had a fun time. The highlight of our shopping is the caramel apple that we always get and share. I am already looking forward to next year.

Christmas Fun!

Last Friday, we took Buzz and Mulan to the Festival of Trees. It's a fundraiser and companies decorate Christmas trees and then they auction them off with big trips and other fun things. We didn't go to the auction part we just went to look at all the big trees and admire the creative genius that goes with them. We were once again amazed and the kids really enjoyed looking at all the trees. We took a break and decided to let the kids decorate their own mini-tree and what a fun time we had. Mufasa and I did one as well and we donated ours to a local nursing home. It was a great way to kick off the holiday season!