Stayin' busy

I have an updated version of blogger on my compute to update with.

...and the pictures are all backwards.

So, bear with me as things jump around with this update!!

Kelly's been doing great in Cross Country!

She has been in a few meets so far, and keeps beating her personal goals.

We're so proud of her.  :)

After Kelly finished the other day, Anthony was READY to go.

He was being feisty and pulling off his Daddy's hat, then dumping it back on the ground...the whole way back to our car.

Anthony in his Shamu jammies at Nana's.

We were in Seattle for Anthony's chemo this week, so we stayed the night before at Nana's.

This is Anthony trying to hide behind his DVD player at bedtime.

Before bedtime, Anthony was kicking back, doing his favorite movie-watching pose at Nana's house.  :)

Last week sometime, Kelly and I were comparing hair.

Hers was a tad bit longer, but hers was also wet.

Monday night, for our Family Home Evening, Kelly chose to have everyone chalk our walk.

Anthony with his Buzz and Woody.

Last Sunday, the girls made a fort in the front room, then took a bunch of pictures of it.

Here's their rendition of Buzz keeping the fort safe.

Anthony was getting Maggie with Josh's light sabre.

One of Anthony's favorite things to do is carry his 2 Woody dolls around. 

Today, he fell asleep in the car, holding both.

We're in a formal dressing kind of mode.

Our family was invited to speak at the Ronald McDonald House Gala.

This is a big, formal, fundraising event for the House. 

I was so excited to be invited.

We haven't done anything formal since...well, since our wedding maybe?

So, I had a specific dress style that I wanted, and I wanted it a certain way.

I found some beautiful vintage-looking silk taffeta and sewed away.

When I tried it on, it didn't quite look like my high school body in a formal gown...more like a tent. :(

After much depressed consideration and discussion with Andy, we decided that I'd buy a dress instead.

So, when the boys and I were in Seattle for overnight, I went SHOPPING and tried on at least 40 dresses.

I found THE ONE, but am not positive anymore if it is....we'll have to see how it goes.

Anyways, during that past week, the girls and I have been discussing formal dresses.

Kelly's excited to get one soon for this gala, because then she can use it for the winter dance too.

She had fun trying on my "ancient" dance dresses.

They were definitely not her style because of the "pouffy sleeves and weird waistlines."

The dress below was actually my grandmother's dress for a formal back in the early 1900s.

Lilly and Kelly ready for a big football game.

One more thing...after 5 years of having a teeny tiny dresser in our closet because any size dresser would not fit in our room (small room b/c old house and queen sleigh bed), we took out the bed frame, rotated the mattress to face the other wall, and we now have a regular dresser again!!!

Now, we just need to get a new frame so we don't feel like we're slumming it with the mattresses on the floor.  sigh...if it isn't one thing, it's another.