Dallas Zoo

The day after Thanksgiving we loaded up the vans and went to the Dallas zoo. What a fun day. Here is Cole, Rebekah, Justin and some random girl in the birds nest in the merry go round. Ben and Maddy. Look at Maddy's face. I love it!

Maddy and Rebekah holding hands. They were so cute that day.

Best buddies

Had to get a cheesy one of Ben and I. Hahaha

Gators

Albino baby Gator

Which way to the Giraffes Maddy?

Kaycee, Aunt Lenae and Cole waiting to go on the zoo train

Most of the kids that were at the Higgins for Thanksgiving.

Bottom row: Adam, Cole, Emily,Kaycee, Rebekah, Maddy and Matthew

Top row: Analli, Chelsea, James, and Renee

Not pictured: Nathaniel and Justin. Little stinkers wouldn't get in the picture.

Thanksgiving

Well I figures since I had a moment I would up date my blog a bit. For Thanksgiving this year we went up to Dallas to visit with Ben's side of the family. His sister Jaylene and her hubby and family just moved there about 2 months ago. I LOVE having close family only 4 hours way. :) Any way here is a picture of the Sam Houston statue. Not a bad picture considering we were going 70 miles and hour. Here are the kids enduring the car ride. They did great. We were only a month from potty training Cole and he did great. We didn't even have to stop.

Thanksgiving dinner. Yummy. Thanks Monty and Jaylene. I was fun having Megan and Jared (Ben's older brother) and their 2 kids as well as Ben's younger sister Lenae.

The clean up.

The kids playing in their HUGE back yard.

And to end the night my niece Renee had to bring out her corn snake for all the kids to see. Look at Cole's face. I love it!

Matthew thought it was pretty cool.

Kaycee wasn't to sure of it at first but then she warmed up to it.

James loved it and is asking for one for Christmas. Sorry son, it aint going to happen.

Even Maddy got to hold it. She didn't mind it at all.

Maddy's photo shoot

Well I went last week and had Maddy's pictures taken. They didn't turn out to well. At least I think. The photographer wasn't very good. Any way here are some of the good and ok ones. The first one is the one we picked for the package.

I liked this one a lot. I just wanted something more to put on my wall

O yes the crate. The photographer asked Maddy could stand on her own. I said no so she pulls out this big crate for her to hold on to. The crate is as big as Maddy is.

Then I asked if she had any props or was she going to maybe change the back ground to something besides white. She then told me maybe the black back ground. So I said, "you want to put a black back ground with her brown shirt?" Well we got a stool for a prop and she added pink tole to the back drop. Ughhh

Silly face

At one point Maddy was over it and just keep turning around or crawling off.

Not to bad. I guess

I think she looks like a monkey in this picture. :)

O well hopefully next time will be better. We did get some cute pictures. O ya these are the $30 Robeez shoes my dang dog chewed up the next day. Stupid dogs. :)

Halloween 2009

Beware lots and lots of pictures. Ok to start out these first 2 pictures are of my friend Kim and Jamie's kids. Raggedy Ann is Jamie's daughter Maya and Raggedy Andy is Kim's son Aidan. Jamie and Kim have been good friends for a while and I started watching Aiden the beginning of this school year for Kim while she teaches 5th grade here at the school my kids go to. Any way Aiden and Maya go to pre-school together and Thursday was there costume party day.

On Friday Oct 30th the church put on a trunk or treat. Jamie brought her kids along and we had a blast. Here we have Kaycee the Witch, Maya, Raggedy Ann and Maddy as Pebbles

Cole was a "groovy man) That's what he called himself. :)

Maddy againJames and Kaycee getting ready for the costume parade to start

Maddy, Kaycee and Cole handing out candy

On Halloween we went out trick or treating with Jessica and her kids. We have Mario (Jacob) Luigi (Matthew) The witch (Kaycee) Groovy man(Cole) Pebbles (Maddy) Another Luigi (Josh) and a vampire (Joey) Side note: Josh has got to be the sweetest kid around. James should be wearing a mask but Maddy was scared of it so I had him take it off. Josh has always been concerned with Maddy so in this picture he is holding her hand so she wont get scared again. So cute. Also Maddy rode in the stroller to go to do so she didn't go up tot the door very often with her bucket. Josh would get two pieces of candy at every door and come give one to Maddy. Such a sweet kid. :)

Our first house we hit. My neighbors and good friends the Hazels

Maddy enjoying the night At one house we went to it was decorated so cool. Here Jessica's cousin is holding up a floating head.

Here we have a severed head

And here is the grave yard. These decorations were the best of the nights.

After we were done trick or treating we went over to our good friends the Lindamoods for a big Halloween block party. I think this was the best party of the night. Actually I have asked the kids what was there most favorite part of the night and they all say this party.

Matthew and Cole eating hot dogs

Kirsten the Candy Corn Witch. The party was at her house

Jessica, Maddy and Lisa. This picture was taken at like 9:30-10pm Maddy was on a "I need to go to sleep high" She was acting so funny.
The party gang. Again look closely and you can see Josh holding Maddy's hand :)

Ok on to the costume pictures. Matthew and David (Matthews friend and game buddy) as Luigi and Mario. So fitting for both of them. Sarah said David was Mario and I knew I had to get the Luigi costume for Matthew. :)

Kaycee the Witch

Maddy as Pebbles I made this costume for Maya (Jamie's daughter) last year.

Cole the groovy man

And James the dead baseball player. Sorry he took off the mask and gauze before I could get the picture.