last night

when you are married to the basketball career, you have to maximize time...whenever you have it together. so- we decorated for Christmas! Since the 'ball' is CKC's favorite toy, she wants everything to be a ball! Our tree, to CKC, is a ball heaven! I can tell that this is going to be an interesting Christmas as all the 'balls' we hung last night are fragile....especially when in the hands of a 1 and 1/2 yr old! She had fun helping hold the lights and ribbon etc. Even today, she has gone in there and proclaimed 'BALL!' and has squealed in delight.

As tradition has it, Scott played Christmas carols as we decorated the tree=) Festive. I have a huge urge to turn them on now (inside and out) but promised to wait until atleast next week.
can you see CKC gazing at the tree?
the final result

PS. technically, CKC is right. There are balls on the tree. This tree's theme is: hot pink, lime green, silver, and tons of little basketballs. So, again, when you are married to the basketball career, you get to decorate with it, too! Ha.

Today!

ckc has deemed this her cabnit.

She is really into playing peak-a-boo....w/ anything, including (patient) Molly.

Hugging (patient) Molly?

A few thoughts that passed through my mind today:
- I hear an ice-cream truck? Really? In the month of November? Wow…
- It is amazing what a haircut and a car wash can do for one’s attitude!

Fact:
Today CKC had her 18month appt. Very healthy! We have strayed away from medicine for the most part and have been trying to help her build up immunity…thus far, it has worked! Doc commented how healthy she has been thus far. Today we learned that she is in the 83% for height and 55% for weight...long and lean! Next year, she is going to out grow me height-wise!

Profound:
A new movie coming out has this slogan: ‘The fate of our country won’t be decided on the battlefield, it will be determined in the classroom.’ Profound. The only thing I’d add to this statement is to put ‘only’ in front of the words ‘be decided’ as we live freely because of the sacrifices of our brave Military (and their families!).

Fresh:
I turned the big 3-0 last week! One if the ways we celebrated was to eat in Nashville and watch a movie. So, we watched ‘Conviction’...and it was tremendous. A dark but inspiring movie. Glad to have experience it. But in leaving, we decided to watch another movie! At 10pm, we sat down to watch ‘Life as we know it.’ (We paid for both movies… Yep…$42! Ugh.) It was completely outside my box to watch 2 movies back-to-back, to pay to watch 2 movies back-to-back, and to stay up late late late. Had fun creating memories!

Happy Halloween 2010

ckc loves to play dress up... so this weekend was no exception!
She was a lady giraffe (pink bow on the ear!)

this is her as we drove home from KY. Precious.

below is ckc's version of square dancing. we went to KY this past weekend for the Annual Square Dance. (10 yrs and running!) She loved the dancing part. Not sure where she got her moves, though=) Her daddy?

For Ford’s Mulally, big bets are paying off!

excellent read.... Go FORD!

Click HERE for the msn article

Young Life Hoe Down

Below are a few of my favorite pics from tonight.

hugging a moment

We packed a ton of fun in a few hours. We were all hungry, pooped, and filthy when we left.

ckc's first ride...

the hayride that we were on had a lady pointing out features on the farm. the lady mentioned that she had santa's phone # and asked him to come to the farm near Christmas to see all the good girls and boys. Scott did a great job capturing the moment... Chloe was estatic (to say the least) that Santa was going to come! She assured the lady that she was a good girl and that she wanted to see santa.

my handsome hubby- who i'm so blessed to share life with.

family pic! Our friend Niki joined the fun today! CKC and Chloe adore her.

can you hear the squeeling?

my sweet angel.

family photo...attempt=)

to be a child....

buddies....

the universal language

this was such a cute moment at the hospital last week. ckc wanted to see the baby and climbed up on the stool to take a peek. gosh...she's just so darn cute!

Today Chloe and I went to paint pottery. Chloe knows her colors...she used EVERY one of them...yes, that's right, we got to test each color and clean the paint brush of each color- each time=) She got to pick any item and then paint it... she picked a fairy box thing...and did very well staying in the lines. She picked the most intricate item, too. She was delighted in her project!

CKC loves hanging out with Chloe. Today as we were traveling from place to place... they both giggled the entire time. CKC doesn't understand Chloe and her words...and Chloe doesn't understand CKC and her (made-up) words...but one thing they do understand is each others laughter. Very sweet actually.