Christmas Day Visit 3

After Grandpa's we headed to the infected household...
I can't help myself on this one...hahaha

I know, worst mother ever-but they just make it so easy!

We have a rocking queen...

...who gets so frustrated when she can't move forward. Sign of defeat.

Pondering this crawling thing...

Sidney Kate got lost in a movie with Aunt Mary...both girls twirling some hair. :)

Maybe I can move on my back...

Trunk or Treatin' It

For the second year we headed to Grandma and Papa's for some Trunk or Treating. Talk about lazy trunk or treaters...when I was growing up you had to get in and out of the car 5,000 times if you wanted a haul of candy. These days folks line up for the kids!
Here is Sus and Sidney Kate...SKV is the one trying not to be scared. Susu also let SKV have her pumpkin crown-she loved it so much she wore it to church the next day.

The blanket matches the outfit...and no she isn't a dragon :)
Our fish "Flounder" (That's Ariel's best friend ya know!)

We weren't able to get our porch picture with the Freemans and Venables-so we made sure we got together at the Trunk or Treat. Derek and Carter were soooo sweet! They ran up to SKV with their masks off so they wouldn't scare her. Talk about thoughtful kids (and parents)!

Pictures with Grandma in front of her newly painted and stressed fireplace.

She always wants to hold her-and she's so very good at it!

Who knew fish could sit?!

Video Catch Up

I seriously can not keep up!  Life is just cRaZy sometimes.  Sooo...

Sit back and enjoy some hilarity that is the Lil Venable Fam. 

So, you may recall SKV's busted eye from Easter.  Grandma decided to interview her about it.  Sidney Kate loves (LOVES) seeing herself on the screen...hence the very funny on and on about everything.  "All my peoples"

Someone notices everything-here is her impersonation of "Jetta."  (Kevin comes home at the end-hence Momma's confused look.)

Venable Family Reunion 2011
Sidney Kate and Rylan jumping off the diving board...at the end Rylan tells SKV she's in 10 ft of water...she replies with "No, I'm 3."

Hanging with Grandma at big sister's swimming lessons.

Spinning at Grandma's

If you have a spinning chair at your house and Sidney Kate finds it, this is what you do to entertain yourself. :)

Listen closely to their conversation.

Goat Fun!

Well the fun didn't stop this Sunday! Grandma had a field trip planned and it involved KIDS! A local goat farmer (is that what you call them?) had a fresh litter (again, right word?) of kids. Four baby girl goats were waiting for us to come and ooooo all over them. They were just five days old!

I'm pretty sure that all Sidney Kate said was, "Aw, they are so cute!" You can see her opened mouth expression here.

 and here...

The goat plan, I'll distract her and you eat her skirt! Sidney Kate didn't mind the tugging of her skirt being devoured...and she walked away still wearing it. All was well.

Awwww...I think this goat was going in for the sniff too.
About the 3:50 mark you'll hear Sidney Kate not wanting to hold the goat...after holding a few already.

Childhood Dreams and Headphones

All children (or at least we once did-back in the day) grew up with these massive headphones at home. Fun for playing around in and listening to whatever music our parents deemed "in" at the time. :)
Here is SKV playing in some Winston Cup headphones at Grandma and Papa's house.
Who doesn't use a Christmas candle as a micrphone?

Here is her Mommy, about 29-30 years ago, playing in some too. Notice these have cords, wireless hadn't quite made it around I guess. :) Or headphones that picked up radio stations (as seen above).

Daddy has a picture in some too but I don't have that...maybe GG will scan it and send it over. :)

Who's the Shark Now?

Who's the shark now? Big fun was had at the aquarium! We saw so many weird, scary, pretty, funny-looking, big and small creatures...AND NEMO!!!

Ripley's Aquarium: SHARKS!

Oh, we saw tons of sharks! TONS!

Even these cool ones!

And Daddy touched lots of weird things!

Waiting for the sting rays to come up to our hands...

Beach Pictures Fall 2010

Shew! After quite a few shots, some tears and lots of wind-we ended up with a few okay pictures.

Talk about fun times getting folks to look at the camera and smile-all at the same time! :)

Dinner at Carolina Roadhouse...all fun and games until Mommy gets sick in the bathroom. But hey...I must be feeling better because the blogs are coming back! :) (This trip was a month ago...)

Home Sweet Home

As blueberries were getting picked I walked around and attempted some picture taking with my (more than old and beat up) camera. Not too shabby. Funny how the feeling you had when you were a kid is still there when you return to your grandma and grandpa's house.

I dare say that Momma and I had minor heart palpitations when Grandpa (94) decided to venture out into the unstable soil. But he managed pretty well.

Tony or Donald one had told him there were some big watermelons out there...they ended up being way out there.

Can't get her to do a thing for the camera anymore...but that doesn't stop me from snapping. :)

Blueberry Pickin'!

It feels like we've been waiting forever for blueberries to come in. We'd visit Grandpa's once a week or two to see how they were looking. We finally hit them at the right time and went to pickin'!

Family work...minus me, too busy taking pictures :)

So proud of her collection, she ate as she picked and refused to give the bowl up.

Look "Gwam-pa"
Grandpa came outside to see what all the fuss was about...did he did the unthinkable and went walking through the garden-see other post.

Just Call Me Diego

That's right...just call me Diego, Animal Rescuer! Driving home from dinner with the Hausers we saw this stray cow just eating grass in a field. By the time we turned around it had made its way to someone's yard. Consider this "most fun ever" and something my dear friend Jeremy Strader would love to have been apart of!
I called Momma and my uncles came to the rescue. Turned out to be someone else's cow and not Grandpa's...but sure was fun finding out!
I went to snap a picture or two and got called back by Sidney Kate, who then put me in time-out.  (Funny child!)

Dyeing Easter Eggs

As packed as Easter Sunday was for us, we managed to make our rounds AND dye eggs! The Easter Bunny visited SKV at Grandma and Grandpa Hauser's house too, lucky girl!

Dyeing eggs with Grandma...the child wanted to put her fingers in her mouth after getting dye on them. Yak!

So proud of her work!

Cheese!