Our Cindy Lou Who and her Grinch

Our Cindy Lou Who and her Grinch...he's actually a pretty sweet guy but it matched Hannah's outfit.  Ha!  They actually had planned to go as a huntress and her trophy buck. But, the buck trophy costume didn't arrive on time.  In fact, it has yet to arrive at all.  Weird! So in a feat of last minuteness, I remembered Uncle Tony's Santa Costume and grabbed one of my old Christmas sweaters and the frenzy began.  Nathan picked up green face paint and Hannah's fabulous eyelashes at a local costume shop and we started on Hannah's hair.

We used a solo cup for the main part and pipe cleaners braided in to her hair for the cindy lou braided loops.  It was so fun!!!  And they looked fabulous.  And Hannah won best costume.  Yay!  Our last minute idea worked out well.  Ha!  And now I'm ready to watch the movie and, play Christmas carols, and decorate my house for Christmas.  My high school students might freak out if I played Christmas carols in the classroom this early.  Have you started decorating yet?

Powder Puff Champion

Last week our baby girl and her fellow seniors along with the sophomore girls took on the Freshman and Junior girls at the annual Powder Puff game.  The game itself brought back a flood of memories from childhood when Hannah played flag football with they boys.  Back then, she was the only girl playing flag football and we were pretty proud of that fact.

See our little blondie?  We may or may not have paid her by the flags that she captured....just saying.  She was a good player and not intimidated in the least after a little incentive.  Ha!

Ok, I'm back from a little walk down memory lane and back to the recent Powder Puff Game.  The girls got together with the some of the Varsity Football boys as their coaches and practiced the entire week before the big game.  Finally, it was game time!  These Senior Girls have not lost a game that they played in throughout their high school career and they won last Thursday night too.  Way to go Hannah and fellow senior girls!!!

Hannah had an awesome game.  She got a fumble recovery and sacked the quarterback.  She was stellar on defense....yes, I am totally biased.

The conversations we overheard on the sidelines from the coaches were hilarious!  One of the boys kept hollering, "Can you at least try not to run like a girl? Please??"

Another one hollered, "What the heck are you doing?  That is not what we practiced!!!  And after they ran it in for a touch down he hollered, "Way to go!"  Ha!

But one of my favorite memories was watching the girls, after they scored a touch down, stop and take a group selfie.  I never see that on Friday Nights with the football boys, but I loved it.  So much fun!

Photo of the Morning: Let's Go Jump in a Puddle

Oh what a fun session with these two adorable guys!  Not only were they soaked but I was pretty wet too from their sweet hugs.  Loved every minute!  They make me want to put on my cute rain boots and jump in some puddles too.  Pure joy!!!

A Stunning Texas Senior Session Among Friends

Our baby girl is a senior in high school this year!  A Senior!!!  How is this even possible?!  I wanted to do a special photo shoot for Hannah and some of her closest friends.  Most of them have been friends since the first day of Kindergarten....and Hannah and her friend Shelby met in the nursery at the hospital only a few hours after taking their first breaths.  They were born on the same day. My mind kept coming back to a Texas theme for their session.  Getting all of them together was a small feat in itself.  They are all busy seniors.  I was thrilled that we finally found the perfect date and we were blessed with the most perfect evening.  We were even able to grab a few sunset pictures and enjoy s'mores around the campfire.  The sounds of joy and laughter made for the sweetest session.

I hope they treasure these images as much as we do.  Who knows, it might be fun to recreate these images for their 10th class reunion....oh that makes me sad!

Beautiful girls.  That's our Hannah with the long blonde hair and the blue scarf.

And the group with Studly, our old Studebaker truck and the Texas flag:

I couldn't decide between black and white, so I added both.

S'mores.  Yes!

A night to remember...delight!