It works...

Here's Karianne in a dress I came up with for Angie. I think it fits Karianne a little better. A little short for her, but it looks good with jeans. :-)

Back to Tulsa

We had a long but scenic trip back to Tulsa. We saw all the mountain ranges with their beautiful fall foliage as we traveled through South Carolina, Georgia and Tennesee. I took a lot of pictures through the car window and a few actually turned out ok.

We spent the night in Memphis, and walked down Beale Street this morning before heading out.

This is strange to me, but maybe not to others, there are goats on top of this castle/tower thingy.

Found some nice toilet seats for sale near BB King's Club, woulda thought it? :-)

the rest of the trip was mostly withought incident. A few bumps and delays, but we are ok. Nice to be back, I look forward to sleeping in my own bed.

the wedding

We went to "the wedding" tonight that the girls have been looking forward to getting dressing up for, for a long time. It is not often a children's pastor gets to officiate at a wedding. No, it wasn't one of our children's church kids all grown up getting married, but it could have been, Brent is that old! :-) It was Ben, Brent's old college roommate. Karianne sat through the wedding and the other girls went to the provided child care. She was very impressed with the ceremony never having been to a wedding before. She waved at her daddy and the groom and the bride as they came down the aisle. She informed me the flowers were fake on the pew bows but they still smelled good. Brent asked her what his role was after the wedding and she told him, "you teached them how to get married. You did a good job!"

Their wedding was a symbolic countdown. I don't know if I can remember it all but they were married on Oct 9th, at 7pm (10, 9, 8, 7...) 6 attendants, 5 musicians, can't remember 4, 3 candles, 2 people, united as 1 before God. So sweet. Anyway, since it was at 7pm, no meal was served, just a dessert buffet, which was okie dokie with the girls. Angie and Amy in particular were very keyed up with all the sweets.

They danced,

And danced,

in fact they were the only ones dancing at this baptist wedding. Chocolate is like a kid's alchohol and these kids had way too much. :-)

pictures worth a thousand words

I think these pictures in sequence tell a story well enough without having to explain it.

My sister

Here's me and my sister when we visited her at her house in Atlanta on Tuesday.

South Carolina part 2

yesterday I felt like I was in the bathroom all day. All 4 girls were having "problems" and kept having to go to the bathroom. When we are out Brent doesn't take them to the bathroom because he can't go to the ladies room and the girls can't go to the men's room so it all falls to me. Yuck.

This morning we all slept in. when one girl woke up, everyone woke up, the consequences of all 6 of us living in one room. Brent and I laid there and acted like we were still sleeping. I'd growl every now and then when they'd ask me something. Karianne went to the window and looked out and announced that it seemed to be morning now. Then of course we had to get up. We slept in because it takes quite a while to get 3 girls asleep in one bed, and a baby asleep in a crib right next to them. I finally got them to sleep and tried to get some sleep. in the middle of the night, Amy fell out of bed and started crying, everyone started crying and it took a long time to get everyone to sleep again. We put Amy back to sleep on the floor. She is sporting a small boo boo on her chin this morning.

We are at a Hilton. Brent got it on Priceline for $65. We decided the only difference between this hotel and the ones we usually stay at is a fancy lobby that you have to walk through and have everyone stare at you because you aren't dressed quite right and you are carrying Walmart bags. :-)

South Carolina

We are in South Carolina right now. It took us two days of driving, but we are finally here. We have an old college friend getting married and he asked Brent to officiate at the wedding. We stopped in Atlanta today and visited with my sister, and the girls got to meet their cousins whom they just love now! Had lots of fun playing at their house. Thanks for the bed and the meal Amanda!

Princess for a day

Lucy got in the action today at the JBF Princess Day. The kids get to dress up and they get their hair and make up done there. They get crowns, coupons, tatoos a craft and face painting. The face painting line is always the longest so we settled for a princess tatoo on our faces. Lucy just got a crown, although she was offered the glitter, and paint, I didn't think it was a good idea.

Bargains

I have genetically inherited the bargain gene. I'd like to show off a few finds that have made our girls very happy.

We found this play structure at a yard sale for $40. Brent put it together and got all the credit, the girls think he is the greatest for setting it up for them. I found the pop up house at JBF for $10 last night, it is a big hit too.

Lucy Loves the swing!

flying monkey

About the only time I will break down and buy the McDonalds Happy meals for my kids is when they have the Madame Alexander Dolls. They have them now and we are out to get the whole set of the Wizard of Oz set or as Karianne says, "Lizard of Boz".
this is the flying monkey. Of course the flying monkey was strange looking and disturbing to begin with, but this is pretty strange looking. I think it looks more like one of the X men than a flying monkey, what do you think?