First Horse Show!

 We had our first horse show last week!  What a fun experience!  Don't I look official?  Proper?  Except my turtleneck is LAST YEAR'S - hello, Mommy?  I'm a growing girl!

 Anna Jane got to ride first on the lead line!

 She won first place! (So did every other little nugget - it was too hard to choose the "best" when they were all so cute...)

 We know you're the best, Anna Jane!  Now don't get too comfortable on that horse - we're holding out for a different (*cough*cough* cheaper!) hobby?!?

 And here I am on Bullet!  I did an obstacle course (which I kinda sorta forgot about the first time I went around the ring - so I placed 5th in that event - d'oh!); and I did the Trot twice - once I placed 2nd and the other time I placed 1st!

 I loved it.  Loved every second of it.

Hope you like working nights, Daddy!
Love,
Lilly, Anna Jane, and Jack

I Got This...

 This is my Pre-K2 picture.  Isn't it adorable?  Mama didn't realize my SHOES would be in the picture.  Whoops.  S'okay 'cause I love these shoes, so in her opinion this picture couldn't be better - the shoes are ME, man.

So I've got some big news.  Wanna hear it?  Guess who uses the potty now?

That's right!  THIS guy!  And guess who TAUGHT me to use the potty?!?

Nope!  Not THIS guy! (This is the Garbage Man - he let me sit up on the truck with him.  He gave me a sucker.  Rockin')

How about THIS guy!  That's right!  A few weeks ago Mama went on a girls weekend, came back, and I was peepin' in the potty - upright.  Proper.  Only Daddy coulda taught me that.  We had a few week struggle with, ya know, the "other" thing...so Mama thought, "Hmmm...what would be a proper potty treat for poopin'?"  I got it!  CAR CARS!  So we went to the store, bought a bunch of Hotwheels and...

Whoops.  Sorry, Daddy.
Ha ha!
Just jokin'!  I got it!  I got this potty thing!  NO MORE DIAPERS FOR US!!!  SEVEN STRAIGHT YEARS (yes, you read that right - SEVEN STRAIGHT YEARS WITH NO BREAK) and NO MORE HUGGIES, NO MORE PAMPERS, NO MORE LUVS, NO MORE COSTCO BRAND -
NO. MORE. DIAPERS.
Whoot!  Whoot!
Love,
Lilly, Anna Jane, and Jack

Happy Haul-oween!

 Remember when you were a kid and you went trick-or-treating one time, and you had a pillowcase and you hoped you filled it?  These days we go trunk-or-treating, we have "Fall Festivals" where people hand us loads of candy, we have school parties - AND we go trick-or-treating.  It's super awesome.  I really don't know how you old people survived in the good old days with one lousy bag of candy.

 Here I am with my buddy, Jackson!  SOOOOOOOOO cute!  Mommy is going to love watching us grow up together!  This was our FIRST trunk-or-treat stop for the evening, our neighborhood church.

 Then we met up with my BFF Erin at HER church for a SUPER trunk-or-treat (incidentally - I lost a tooth while standing in line!  All that candy?  Do you see it?  It's on the bottom!)

 Captain Jack says, "CANDY, CANDY, CANDY!!!"

 "I want you..." TO GIVE ME MORE CANDY.

 We also went to ScanSource to hook up with Aunt Cotton Candy and Uncle Incredible!  This is Mommy's personal favorite trick-or-treat because it's indoors, it's safe and the ScSc people do it up every year (not to mention every single person lets you take handfuls of candy at once) - Mommy had to empty Jack's bucket twice while we walked around ScSc!)

Check it out!  Another record Haul-oween!
Love,
Lilly, Anna Jane, and Jack