Prayers needed

I have fallen behind once again on this. Within the past month or so a lot has happened! I've never been so stressed out in my life. It seems as soon as one trouble is over another starts. But yesterday was all it took to do me in. I feel like I'm in over my head. I could easily explain it all but right now I can't see the keys as I type for the tears. So if you can please say a prayer for me!

Halloween 2011

For some reason this year I just wasn't into Halloween. Maybe cause this was the first year without the big fall/Halloween party? Not sure but just wasn't feeling it. The girls talked for weeks about who/what they were dressing as. It's different now. Years ago I would pick out a cute outfit and that was that. But now they have to pick it out. So after 1000x changing their minds. Grace and Callee were CeCe and Rocky from Disney's Shake It Up.

And miss Hynlee Bryce decided at the very last minute she was going to be a Lalaloopsy. They started trick-or-treating about 11:00 in the morning and lasted all day. Poor Hynlee fell into a sugar coma and was out! These kids are making me old. By 9:00 I couldn't keep my eyes open!

Even Papa Ingle got in on the action. Here is Papa as Rocky!

And then Daddy had to have his turn. I think he secretly wants long black hair. This isn't the first time he has worn one of the girls wigs:)

Apple Festival

Yesterday we took our annual trip to North Ga for the pumpkin patch and apple houses. This was our first trip to the Apple festival. In my opinion it was nothing special. The same old drain your pockets with kid stuff like all the rest. Within the first 30 minutes of being there we had spent over $40 on camel rides, slides and bungee jump things! Don't get be wrong I love seeing the girls having fun but really $10 for a camel ride that lasted 2 minutes tops?! Anyways we had fun!


Grace and Callee with the clown. Hynlee was NOT going near him!!

We made a stop by our favorite apple house. The Panorama. Derick is in LOVE with their apple pies. However he said yesterdays weren't as good as they normally are. I, on the other hand refuse to eat any other than my Nanny's. Called me spoiled if you want! But once you've had hers, no others compare:) The girls love watching them sorting the apples and then making the pies. 

Watching with Granny



This is Derick with Callee Bug's Pumpkin. I love that this is the place I went growing up and now we take the girls. But Burt's has grown so much! It's unreal at how big it's gotten over the last few years.



My girls:)



And after picking out about 100, Hynlee finally decided that this was the one for her. I love this picture. She held it for all of 2 seconds and was then done with it!

It's much easier to just find a bigger one and sit and wait!

So all in all we had a great day. Other than the fact that I had yet another allergy attack. This time to hard butterscotch candy. Yes! Really! It was processed in the same place as peanuts. But all was good. I hadn't ate a whole piece yet when I noticed so a no epi-pen just some allergy medicine and a quick nap.

Pumpkin Patch

Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin. God lifts you up, takes you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. He opens you up, touches you deep inside and scoops out all the yucky stuff-- including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside you to shine for all the world to see.



Where has my baby gone?



I can't figure out how to flip the picture. But here is her first H!

 Hynlee is no longer a little girl anymore. And this makes me very sad! I still say she is my baby, no more kids for me. But I can't stand that I don't have a baby anymore! Just this week she has slept in her BIG girl twin size bed in her room all night! From 8:00p.m. to 7:00a.m.!! Not sure who's heart this breaks more, mine or her daddy's! She has been in the bed with us or at least in our room since she was about 6 months old. So this is a huge adjustment for us! And a few weeks ago I tried teaching her to write "H". She wouldn't hear of it. And yesterday Callee shows her one time and she picked it up and is writing like a preschooler! I'm so very proud of my big girl, who will always be my baby!

All in a day

Wow!Yesterday was a day!

10 times 4 = Finger nails painted

9 sippy cups made for 3 toddlers through out the  day!

8 assignments laying on my desk needed to be graded and filed.

7 times asking Callee to PLEASE take off the skates

6 wild kiddos ages seven and under

5 loads of laundry washed, folded, and put away!

4 hours of school

3 Hot cooked meals...actually only 2! We ordered pizza but 3 hot meals:)

2 times catching Eli the Lil monkey climbing too high.

1 very tired but very blessed Mommy/Mimi!



Growing old together

Derick sent me this picture yesterday and asked, "Will this be us?" My answer YES! Without a  doubt! I can't...NO I don't want to think of a day when he is not right beside me. This picture reminds me of one of my favorite quotes.

 

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”

                                                    Winnie the Pooh