it’s always a treat when daddy comes home from foreign lands with treats 🙂 this homecoming was no exception! he had 5 hours in tokyo where he was a little shop happy with this little figure he thought looked like els 🙂

he even got kira and i matching shirts. dang that plant in her face!

and the boys got matching goods as well:

and some shots of dad with children who are very happy he’s home. i loooove the second one where he’s looking at K and she’s lovin on him, and E doing who knows what! looks like E doesn’t quite get the jumping pics, her arm was not harmed here 🙂

and with the boys LOL, E still not getting the jumping idea. cam looks so little to me here. love it. and caleb with his big football muscles. LOL

the picture taking has come to a sudden halt since he came home, whoops! but i did beat my measley 27 shots last month- im at 636 🙂

layed in my bed and drew and read all day.

i personally enjoy his company and don’t mind him taking sick days from school 🙂 he’s my little buddy.
this blogging/photo taking daily thing is wiping me out! good thing we had dance class today to blog about tomorrow!

I LOVE SUNDAYS! i came downstairs to the girls cuddling 🙂

kira hates that picture but i LOVE it so. look at e's hand on k's. awwwww. we had a great morning at church. although when it was time to leave, E pitched a fit. in attempts to put her to sleep while driving, we managed to get in the longest In N Out line EVER. she didn't fall asleep. i did get this nice photo of her though. oh where o where did that glorious light come from? we never have nice light in the house!

and then after many hours of denying.. she fell asleep. 🙂 this is what she looks like when she wakes up. i know chris is all over that. he loves that puffy, sleepy look. awwwwww!

and then we headed over to my inlaws house for dinner— where my father in law cooked up a storm! he made a trial mini thanksgiving dinner and we stayed and gobbled up till we could gobble no more. delicious. best IN LAWS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! love you guys!

that's our sunday. strange without daddy. we miss you!!! 😦

oh and i forgot to add this: october guest designer for scenic route. one of my favorite companies! love them!

the girls at caleb's game:

a few minutes with us before miss social heads off with her little friends… talking about elsie here, not kira 🙂

kira's pet peeve– any age under hers who doesn't play soccer correctly or keep score. so funny to hear her get all into it.

i totally get into it too, and since chris wasn't there, i felt i needed to shout twice as much. kira was rather embarrassed 🙂 and elsie scored more sugary water treats that day.. otter pops from her friend. besides our bread fettish, we have a serious otter pop fettish in our house too.

that's all i got for saturday- as i headed out to the oasis to scrap a bit. i hardly ever go there to do it because of the drive, last night was no exception. the traffic completely sucked. i hate the 5 freeway with a passion. but it was good fun to hang and get some layouts done without little fingers grabbing my stickers from my pile 🙂 more of these super exciting daily posts, tomorrow 🙂 phew, just made it in before midnight!

i ran to the post office while uncle tuds watched the kids at practice for 10 minutes. els all up in the dirt. she is a girl who loves dirt and rocks and sticks 🙂

someone missed his catching partner 😦

someone who doesn't normally get gatorade got uncle tuds to share with her.

see? she knows she's not supposed to have it!

i got a new issue of my fave cooking mag and am so excited to make this! we are bread fanatics 🙂

and the boy who had practice had a little injury, someone stepped on his finger with his cleat but he still had a smile for dad

and cap our day off with a little in N out, why yes of course!

tomorrow's post: more soccer of course!

for our lives to go upside down for a few weeks. he's getting ready for a big trip and it's just not the same without him. i will be blogging for him hopefully daily, and he is supposed to be blogging at our jacshoot blog for us. we shall see how that goes! 🙂 on my mission to take more than 27 pictures this month, i noticed that i hadn't taken any since this dance day. gonna have to get better at that if im gonna blog daily!