Little Duckling!

Morgan has started a Mother's Day Out program. She is so proud that she gets to go to 'school!' When I dropped her off she didn't look back! She's such a big girl! Afterwards, we went shopping and she followed behind me like a little duckling. (She's in the 'Little Duckling' class.) I asked her to walk beside me and she informed me she's smaller than me and had to follow in a row! She also came home with a craft! My very first ,of many to come, art project!

Cousins!

They were having a blast! I know this video is really dark but I still think it's cute! Last weekend my cousin and his family came to see us. It's great that we have children the same age. And....we love it when they come. Morgan can't wait until next time!

Christmas Roadtrip!

Well, that's pretty much how I would explain our Christmas. Since we live in Houston, we get to drive many miles to see family at Christmas time. We started a few weeks early and went to see Meems & Peeps in Colorado City, Texas. Peeps is Stevie's Dad. The girls love playing on the staircase with Peeps. The next weekend, Stevie's Mom and Stepdad came to see us! We love it when we have visitors....especially Nana and Papa. We watched the Cowboys that weekend, too. Nana and Papa are huge fans.We stayed home and waited for Santa on Christmas Eve. Morgan is a strong believer in the Santa Claus! He surely didn't let her down. They opened presents first thing Christmas morning and then we were off to Grandpa Sammy & Grandma Louwyns. (My parents house in Drippin')
Christmas with the Alba Family is crazy. There is always fifty or more family members eating, giving presents and enjoying the company. My Grandparents, the Dalleys, were there also. And I'm not sure why my Uncle Lino had his gun with him. But, you know I had to take a picture of it!We spent the night at my Mom's and left the next day for DeLeon, Texas. (I didn't take a picture of the girls on the road that day....or I would have felt the need to add it here!) Stevie's Grandma and Grandpa live there. Christmas here is pretty exciting also. Steve's Mom is one of six children. Mamaw has her gathering every year and it is very special to us.
The girls were playing leap frog at 11 PM. Morgan was wearing her new princess costume from Maw! After it was all said and done, we did have a Merry Christmas. All of our family is doing as well as can be expected. We love being able to go see all of them during the holidays. Wish we could see most of them alot more. Perhaps.....they could come see us!?!??!

Morgan is Free!!

Okay, maybe she's three! She says free instead of three though. We're working on that!

Her birthday was November 26th, the day before Thanksgiving. She has a few things that she knows she can count on when a birthday comes around. Nana is going to send balloons and she gets to help with the cupcakes. Those two things must happen or it's just not a birthday. Stevie had to work really late on her birthday. So, keeping the little one occupied was fun. We went and picked up her cake and I decided she should get to enjoy it. She played for hours with it. It came with six little princesses and she was in love.

By the time Stevie got home, the cake had been taste tested. I didn't really mind, it's her party, right?! Can you tell, I was feeling bad for not doing a big shindig for her this year? Bad Mommy.

Happy Birthday Morgan Faith!

I've Been Tagged

Rules:
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Answer the six "4" items.
Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment.

4 Things I Did Yesterday:
~Ordered a Castle Cake for Morgan's 3rd birthday. (Cheating~I know!)
~Went to Target and bought a "big girl" carseat for Morgan.
~Took the girls to see Santa at the Bass Pro Shop. (Cadence screamed for her life, made for a cute picture though!)
~Contemplated doing laundry. (Still doing that today!)


4 Things I Look Forward to:
~Decorating for Christmas. I force myself to wait until after Thanksgiving.
~Vacation every year. I love to fly away, it makes me appreciate home.
~My girls' birthdays.
~Steve and my anniversary month. We started dating, were engaged and married all in March. We don't do gifts, I just really like to take the time to appreciate us.

4 Things On My Wish List:
~Disney World.
~new camera
~bigger bed for Morgan. The toddler bed just isn't cutting it anymore.
~For Cadence to have a day without incidents. Bad luck has been following her around for weeks. My poor baby has been sick, hurt or you name it....today, a rash and a black eye. Yesturday, she bumped the other eye, fell and now has a knot on the back of her head.

4Favorite Restaurants:
~Pei Wei
~Schlotsky's
~Chick Fil~a
~On The Border


4 Favorite TV Shows:
~Anything on HGTV.
~Entourage
~Grey's
~Sons of Anarchy
~We tivo tons of shows, these are just the ones I remembered first.

4 People I Tag: (You're It!)
~Krystal
~Steph
~Leslie
~Lindsay

Trick or Treat!

As you can imagine, Morgan was ready to go! She had been preparing and gathering her costume for weeks. Everyday, she would tell me something different. She wanted to be a witch, no....a cat, no.....a princess, no......?! Finally, the day came and she didn't want to be anything! She just wanted to go! I had to persuade her to wear her costume with a little bribery. I pulled out some toy jewelry which was previously hidden from her! (Speaking of choking hazards!) You'll notice she's totally blinged out!
Then there was Cadence, the Medieval Witch. Her Daddy picked out her costume a month before. She wasn't feeling good and stayed in the stroller most the night. She had fun following Morgan around. Morgan was a ball of energy. She kept saying "One more doorbell, please!"
Halloween was great. I can't wait til next year! The 'pumpkin' is still being dragged around the house with a few bits of Halloween loot in it! I let her (Morgan) have (pretty much) free reign over it. And, I'm surprised the candy has lasted this long!

Screw this....

Seriously! We've had a rough couple of weeks around the Owens household. It all started with a few spider bites on Cadence. No big deal, right?! Well, I'll get back to that later. On the Thursday before Halloween, Cadence managed to find a screw that her Daddy lost. Apparently a tasty little screw because she ate it. The screw was a 1/2'' long and the head was a 1/2'' in diameter. As she was choking, Steve knew exactly what she had found. So, off to the ER we went for x-rays. Luckily, all went well and the screw had made it to her stomach. Here are the pictures I snapped with my camera phone.
The next day, the screw made it's appearance back into the world. Moral being.... all things that go in will eventually come out. (Sorry, I had to make light of it!) Halloween was a rough day for Cadence. She really wasn't feeling well and I figured it was because of the screw. (It went in black and came out silver.) My thought was....great, lead poisoning? My Mom and Aunt Joann came to Houston for some shopping. So we toted my sick little girl all over town. We even rounded out the Saturday by going to the Renaissance festival. (Steve and some our friends were camping out for the weekend.) By nightfall, Cadence had started running a fever. I gave her Tylenol and we headed for home. To make a looooong story short.....one of those spider bites was on her bottom and it had abscessed. I tried to get it to go away at home but ended up at the Texas Children's Hospital by Monday morning. They had to give her some heavy anesthesia so that she could handle the pain of them lancing it. eck. Definitely not something I want her to go through ever again. So, I've been doctoring a hiney for days! It's almost healed and so far, so good.