Ok so it's Saturday night - I'm blogging, the kids are in bed, Tyler's playing poker at the neighbors, and I don't have any of my Christmas stuff out yet... Oh well, maybe I'll get to it tomorrow. Gee, I'm starting to sound like a man!

Today we got to play in the SNOW! We didn't get much - but enough for the kids to have fun in. Landry just wanted to eat it and Cole wanted to put it in a bucket and "save" it. He'll be disappointed tomorrow when it's a bucket of water. (It's suppose to be 50 degrees)

This a.m. we had practice/scrimmage. Landry wasn't very happy about sitting in the stands. She wanted to be out on the court with the big kids. She took off a few times sprinting out on the court. I got tired of chasing her so Tyler ended up carrying her while coaching. She LOVED it - she watched those kids like a hawk.

We had a busy week and were pretty shot by Thursday night. Of all nights... it was about 2:15 when our lovely neighbor dog started barking uncontrollably. Let me just say, there are only 2 neighbors in our whole development that don't fit in. One lives right beside us. He's a divorcee that I think is having a mid-life crisis... He loves to go out all the time - gets drunk - comes home - lets his dog out - and passes out on the couch while his dog is outside in zero degree weather barking like crazy! Our bedroom and Cole's bedroom are on that side of the house so it was like the dog was sitting next to our bed, it was so loud! So after 2 hours of non stop barking and Cole waking up, Tyler decided to do something! He decided he was going to call the neighbor and let him "have it"! So he pulls out the phone book and dials the number. I'll remind you - it's about 4:20 a.m.... Here's Tyler's conversation.
"Mike" - Hello?
"Tyler" - Yeah, is this Mike?
"Mike" - yes
"Tyler" - Would you shut your ?!?&*...(explicit) dog up, that has been
?!?&*... barking for 2 1/2 ?!?&*... hours!
PAUSE...
"Mike" - Ah, What dog...?
"Tyler" - Is this Mike Barker?
"Mike" - yes
"Tyler" - that lives in Grimes?
"Mike" - yes
"Tyler" - that lives on Norton?
"Mike" - no
"Tyler" - Oh, OK - sorry
CLICK

Cole and I were upstairs dying laughing - I was laughing so hard I was crying. Cole was giggling like a little girl. Yes - meanwhile the dog is still barking non-stop! So after a child being woke up, wrong phone #, and a sheriffs call the dog was finally quite at 5 am. Needless to say none of us could go back to bed, it had been to exciting of a time. Cole came home from school that day and went to bed at 5:30 he was exhausted!

He told me on the way home - If that dog starts barking again tonight I'm going to be sooooo mad! (I was just glad he didn't add the ?!?&*...(explicit)in there! ;)

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I'm a day late on getting this update out... Landry caught some kind of bug and was sick yesterday and recovering today. She had a high fever all day on Sunday and did nothing but lay on either Tyler or I. Her fever finally broke early this morning. I stayed home with her and she seems to be doing much better. Cole was bummed that "Landry got to stay home and he didn't"...again that "life's not fair thing" stinks!

Tyler and I went out with some friends on Saturday night. We went for dinner and then to the piano bar. That's always a good time.

I'm neck deep in photos and Christmas card designing. It's crazy - but I'm glad everyone is doing this early! Maybe I won't be designing cards up to the day of Christmas...? I HOPE! I've signed on to do a few weddings this summer. I've had lots of experience with wedding photography as I assisted a wedding photographer during the summers I was in college. It was fun and exciting... stress filled but exciting.

Cole has 1 more weekend of basketball practice and then we start games. Hopefully I can get some video of the chaos.

A few pics for this week!

Winter...?

I think winter has arrived in Iowa. We went from high 70's early to mid week and then WHAM! 30 degree weather. What can we say - it's IOWA! Speaking of IOWA - how about the Hawkeyes! Yea!

Cole started basketball on Saturday. He really enjoys it. After practice he told Tyler he needed to "go home and rest from basketball". It totally wore him out. When he got home he actually went up to his room and laid on his bed to rest.

Landry continues to call call Tyler - "Tyer" (no L), and when she says momma she says it so fast it comes out "mya!" So we are Tyer & Mya. She's too funny, last night she decided she was going to take Cole's room over. She crawled up in his bed and got all comfy and watched TV.

Just a few pics this week of Cole at basketball practice. And 1 of Landry and Olivia (next door neighbor girl), they got to play together on Saturday while I went on a photo shoot!

Happy Halloween!

What a GREAT week! It was a full week of fun. Pumpkin carving, trick or treating, and a rockin' PARTY at the neighbors house! After months of Cole flip-flopping on what he was going to be for Halloween he finally decided a week before he was going to be a pirate! Landry was a pink poodle, and an adorable one at that! She did wonderful trick or treating with all the big kids. Cole and his friends were always about 4 houses ahead of us, but we went with a huge group of people so it helped to have lots of extra eyes keeping track of them. Our neighborhood is crawling with kids, Tyler stayed back this year to hand out candy and we had at least 150 kids stop at our house.

Every year for the past 3 years our neighbors have had a huge Halloween bash. Tyler and I usually do a couples costume, but this year we decided to do our own thing. Tyler was Michael Jackson (if you know Tyler well... you know he can pull off a perfect Michael Jackson!) So Jamie (Landry's daycare provider - aka MAMIE...) and I were partners this year and went as saloon girls. It was fun getting all dressed up in the old time costumes. We had a blast - I'm sure the pictures will give you a good idea. There was a band at the beginning of the night and then we busted out the karaoke machine! We look forward to this party every year! It's a short walk home and it's with all of our best friends! If anyone needs costumes for next year - we're getting quite the collection!

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