TRUNK OR TREAT AT CHURCH

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Our church, Mimosa Lane, had a parking lot FULL of cars and games for the kids. They had such a great time. Some of the cars were very creative and the games were lots of fun. The girls filled their pumpkins quick with candy. I just picked a few of them playing games, I swear I have 30!! We are so blessed to be at Mimosa. We have all made wonderful, life-long friends. Everytime the girls would see their friends they would run up and hug on them and want a picture, so sweet.

TRUNK OR TREAT AT CHURCH

JOSS'S 3RD BIRTHDAY

Sunday, October 26, 2008

This is Joss Hunter's 3rd birthday party (for those who don't know, that's Taya and Andy's littlest one). The kids had a BLAST, jumping and sliding in the bouncy house. I was so happy to see how great they all played together...

Maggie is 5

Jude is 4...Taya and Andy's

Gracie is 3

Joss is now 3...Taya and Andy's

Kai is 2...Tam and Christy's

Kenrie is 1 ...Tye and Krissy's

Jaymes....she should join us sometime in Dec. (that's Tam and Christy's baby, I hope I spelled that right!!!)

?????.....and our friends Jay and Shellie are expecting in April

WOW, what a group of kiddos!!! I never was able to get a good group shot outside, they were way to busy to stop for a picture. We did try a group one at the end, but I got 1 and my camera batteries died, of course. I'm hoping someone else got a better one.

PUMPKIN CARVING

Saturday, October 25

While Matt was watching UT play football, us girls carved pumpkins!!! And YES, I carved both pumpkins....pretty good, right!!! I do have a few hidden talents!!! Maggie jumped right in, she had no problem getting her hands dirty. Gracie, is another story....little Miss. Drama!!! She didn't want anything to do with her hands going into that pumpkin. She did finally change her mind and decided to help us out.

RED RIBBON WEEK AT SCHOOL

October 20-24, was Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon week is the drug free week at Mesquite ISD. Maggie's school had a different spirit day all week, crazy hair day, pj day, red white and blue day...I didn't get pictures of the other days. Crazy hair day we were a little late to school....wow that took longer than I expected!!! Of course she loved pj day, who wouldn't.

GRACIE....FUTURE SUPER MODEL

September 20, 2008

Here she is....the future super star model herself....Miss Gracie Mae Dixon. A typical Monday at the Dixon house is Gracie and myself in our pjs....all day. I'm working part time at Tosch Elem. in Mesquite and Mondays are my days off. Gracie and I take full advantage of this day....it's our pj day. I was cleaning the kitchen yesterday morning and noticed her in the window, she was watching the birds. When I grabbed the camera she started posing. Typical girl, I guess.

OH, THE FAIR

October 17, 2008
The fair is such a fun time....fried foods, crazy rides, stinky animals, stinky people, stinky trash, and all at such a low cost.....yea right!!!! Thank goodness it only happens one time a year!!!! For at least the past 4 months Maggie has asked, "when are we going to the fair?" She has talked about it, written about it at school, she's seemed so exited. BUT, that all changes the second we get out of the car!!!!!!!!! Both the girls have been every year since they were born. We took Gracie when she was maybe 3 weeks old. And every year the same thing.....Maggie freaks out if you get any where near Big Tex!!! She turns into this strange child that none of us has ever seen before. I swear it is the weirdest thing EVER!!!! Makes my day as the mom, just dandy. Matt and I decided that we were only going 1 time this year, so all the grandparents and uncles and aunts went (expect Liz and Shane, who we missed). I wanted to get a group pictures, but once again I failed at the picture taking. The day was fun, the kids LOVED the rides ( I didn't post all the pic's, too many). As always the food was just great.....fried, fried and more fried, we all came home with a tummy ache. I keep praying that one year we can go and not panic or freak at the sight of Big Tex!!!! OH.......WE SAW JESSICA SIMPSON!!!! She was having a concert that night. There is a great picture of Matt and his dad waiting for her to come out on the stage, they were very excited!!! We just wanted to see her for maybe one song......WOW, she is TERRIBLE in person!!!!! We didn't even listen to half the song. Another year at the State Fair of Texas!!!

BOO'S 60TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

Boo's 60th birthday....October 11, 2008
Boo is Matt's dad and we had a party for his 60th birthday. Maggie and Gracie painted a special picture for Boo. Matt's sisters, Rachel and Elizabeth can be a tad crazy....haha....especially when there's a karaoke machine involved!!! Gracie LOVED singing!!! Maybe we have a future star on our hands????

ANOTHER FOOTBALL GAME

October 10, 2008
Another Friday night......Another Skeeter game!!!! This was an exciting one, Wyatt, Uncle Sam and Gimmie were all there (Nana, Boo, Meme, Pappa, Granny and Pops are regulars!). This is Meme's mom...Gimmie. She lives in Sulpher Springs and we don't see her enough, so we were very happy she came to the game.

WYATT SPENT THE NIGHT

September 26, 2008
After Gracie's party Wyatt spent the night with us.....wow, they had a great time. This is what happens after a very, hard day of playing at the park. Since there's three of them and the girls have twin beds I took off their mattresses and layed them on maggie's floor. They thought that was the coolest thing ever!! Of course the next moring we had to get donuts. Then we were off to the Skeeter game.

GRACIE'S 3RD BIRTHDAY!!!

Gracie's party....September 26, 2008
Gracie wanted to have her party at the park in Sunnyvale again this year and it had to be a Mickey Mouse theme. It ended up being a great place to have the party, because everyone we invited came!!! Wow, we are truely blessed to have so many wonderful friends and such an awesome family. I think there were 28 kids!!!! WOW!!!! For some reason this year I was HORRIBLE with the picture taking, which usually I'm great at??? I'm not sure what happened???? Hopefully she won't need years of counseling!!! One big thing I learned....NO PINK ICING!!!! Wow, that was hard to get off their faces. Matt and I still can't believe our Gracie girl is already 3. What a fun and exciting day.