Saturday, November 3

 Some continued updates from our daily pics - above 10/22, below 10/23 (although the headband didn't actually make it out the door, just in the pictures :-)

 Below - pics from before pom pom class :-)  We made a new hair accessory in the afternoon - what do you think of it - I love it on her!  (Can you also tell she was playing in her lipstick earlier in the day??)

 look mom - I'm upside down!

 10/24 - my little Justin Bieber fan...

 10/24/2012 - Dress-up day at Dance class.  Brenna wore her other costume option this year - an Ice Cream Server - isn't she so cute :-)

 of course, this costume is all about the accessories - the notebook to write her orders in...

 Here is your order (the menu came from the ice cream store we had in Germany)

 10/25/2012

 10/26/2012 - she loves showing her heart :-)

 10/28/2012 - Brenna and I went to Dustin's Zombie 5k (the race was a little disorganized - it ended up being a 10k for him).  The kids who dressed up could do some trick-or-treating...it wasn't really good weather for this - it was rainy and cold.  Only two kids came dressed up so Brenna also came home with a big goodie bag since they had originally planned to do a costume contest as well...

 meow...

 10/29/2012 - new warm fleece for trick-or-treating...

 hard to see here, but the hair accessory has spiders on it for Halloween.  It came from Brenna's big sis at the Dance House.  Brenna is so in love with her big sis (and all of the older girls at the dance house - I wonder if she will be one of them in a few years??)

 10/31 - dress-up day at school (no school on 10/30 - cancelled due to the wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy).  Another chance to wear her ice cream girl costume ;-)

 laughing below because she can't believe I took the picture above...

 11/1/2012 - so, here is the painted shirt - she hated it so much she wore a sweater over it all day :-(  The spot that bothers her the most is the one you can see in the picture below - it is thick and was too sloppy for her liking - any suggestions??

 11/2/2012

 10/20/2012 - Dustin and Brenna went to the circus while I stayed home and finished her ice cream girl costume..they had a great daddy/daughter day :-)

 10/21/2012 - Boo at the Zoo

 10/24/2012 - more from dress-up day at the dance house - someone even added an ice cream cone :-)

 the mini company

 Brenna's Mini Movement 2 class - I think we had some pretty good finger prints on the camera lense for these - guess that is what happens when you give the camera to a 6 year old :-)

 Brenna's tumbling class

 10/31/2012 - 2nd tooth finally out!

 red spot in front where the tooth came out - the tooth is already behind it almost all the way..

 Brenna's number 6 pretzel :-)

Hello All -

I think I put most of the update for this one under each picture - hope you enjoy all of the additional pictures!!

Wednesday, April 25th

 So, today I have some craft pics (the top Barbie wedding dress my mom made for Brenna in Feb.) and lots of cat pictures.  They haven't made many appearances on the blog, so I thought I would give you some new pics of what Brenna refers to as her "kids" (and she really does carry them around like her babies and she can not wait every day to come home and cuddle them).

 Of course, they get to be dressed up - Here is Frankie with his crown

Our little girl looking like a slug...

 Frankie (below)

 He is the vocal one and also the one who likes to wake you up in the morning.

 Frankie

 I made this top for Brenna this weekend for Alphabet day today at preschool (it has a letter B on it).  The top is super easy to make, hopefully she will get some wear out of it this summer.

Hello all,

Hope all is well.  Just thought I would share some quick pictures of our cats today and also some crafts that had been made (one by my mom and one by me).  The top above was really easy to make - not sure how Brenna will like the one shoulder top over all, but at least it was easy to make.

My work has been slowing down some, hopefully we will be able to get to even more of part-time schedule soon. 

Well, that is about all for now!
Take Care!

Friday, October 28

so, above - Brenna before school yesterday - she was dressed up as Holiday Barbie (and no, they didn't have dress-up day at school yesterday - that is scheduled for Monday - it will be interesting to see what she choses that day!!!) Below - Brenna modeling the new Carpenter Creation (I am having a very difficult time focusing this week - so I took a break from work and finally sewed this project that has been sitting in my craft room - very happy with the short time it took from start to finish - only about 4 hours).

Dress-up day on Tuesday at dance class

Hello all,

Hope all is well out there! Things are good here (other than the fact that I can't hear anything right now - so frustrating). Brenna's dance studio is having dress-up week - she was holiday barbie yesterday (and she wore that outfit to school too). Brenna enjoyed having some pink around her eyes with a little bit of glitter (although last night at dance she wore eye shadow instead - she loves the kind of make-up that she gets to wear on the stage (including the red lipstick in some of the pics above).

Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Saturday, October 15

o.k. - I have been a pretty bad blogger lately, but life here at my house has been very crazy. My pictures aren't in order, but here is some of our life since the last blog post. Above, Brenna at a birthday party from last week for our friends' daughter from Germany - I did face painting (I only got one picture of the kids with the face painting - this one of Brenna, so if anyone has any pictures they would like to share, I would really enjoy seeing them. Below, we made an art display wall in our breakfast room - the wire curtain hangers are from IKEA (Dustin goes by there weekly unless he is traveling to elsewhere - like Germany - he is scheduled to go again on Monday - this is like the 3rd or 4th time since my last blog post - at least it seems that way...) Anyway, Brenna loves her art wall - these were for the month of September - we cleared it all off after these pictures for October and our wall is almost full already!

Brenna with two of her jelly fish (or maybe one was an octopus) - anyway, our new kitten, Frankie, was right there hoping to catch one :-)

Since my last blog post, we have adopted two new kittens from an animal shelter close by our house. We have a brother and sister who look almost identical - Brenna likes them to have their collars on so that she can tell them apart (although if one is causing trouble - it is bound to be Frankie, and if one is hiding under the bed, it is bound to be our little girl - Marshmallow (also called Sissie here at home).

Last week with the really warm weather, I took Brenna to the zoo - we had a very enjoyable afternoon there.

my little penguin...

a trip to the Akron zoo isn't complete without sitting on the lion...

pics after our time at the zoo...

Our new little kittens - Marshmallow and Frankie

Brenna decided to be a rock star for Halloween. (Brenna actually wanted to dress up as Hannah Montana's best friend Lily/Lola). So, we bought this great blue wig at Target - she modeled it for me and let me paint a star on her eye - too cute!! (although for the Boo at the Zoo today at the zoo, she wasn't interested in the wig - and with the wind, it probably wasn't a bad idea to skip it).

Frankie at rest - so sweet then...(Marshmallow went and hid under the bed when I got the camera out)

Brenna modeling her new hat that she bought with her birthday money.

My little fashionista...

strike a pose

Brenna dressed up for Boo at the Zoo today. I was going to do face paint, but she asked for make-up instead (as she said, like she had for the dance stage) - I think she looked adorable - although it does make me think that she is growing way too fast!!

what a little model...

Brenna is starting practices for her little dance company - this is one of her new moves from the dance..

another move from the new dance - oh, my - what a face!

sleeping beauty...(only pretending here - she is a good pretend sleeper!!) (and since this is the first picture of her whole costume - I can say that I made the leggings, the pink top, and the white and silver polka dotted top too. She had a feather hair clip in her hair that looked so cute with it (and the clip stays in her hair very well too).

Brenna with Buck - a mascot for Acme supermarket at the zoo

On the Carousel

Brenna with our friends' daughter from Germany (who had the birthday last week) - such little cuties!

oh, boy, Brenna found a bubble maker...

I loved the expression below...

Boo

Modeling the costume (before the make-up) - she wore the costume all day, so I think I made a winner in comfort :-)

of course, Brenna wanted to dress up the pets for Halloween - Frankie as a pirate...

Justice modeling the same pirate hat ...

After the birthday party this week, Brenna wanted her face painted for school the next day - i think she looked very cute for the 5 minutes that we had to paint her face :-)

Hello All,

Hope everyone hasn't given up on me - life has been pretty crazy here. Dustin has been traveling to Germany a lot lately (and he goes again next week - yikes!) and my new job has really started to be very demanding (like life wasn't crazy enough before all of this!).

Anyway, I think I put most of the highlights of life recently with the pictures above - Brenna's most exciting news is the new kittens we adopted about a month ago. Brenna loves holding them and petting them. I finished Brenna's Halloween costume today just in time for Boo at the zoo - now just to get 2 other costumes done before Halloween and I may take a long break from sewing while I am working on this contract job...

Well, I gotta get some other work done! Hope everyone enjoys the pictures - I think the only pictures from between posts that didn't go up was our day at the pumpkin farm from a couple weekends ago.

Take Care!