Fall Girl

Here's some great fun fall photos from a walk we took the other day.  Someone had a great time playing in the creek!

Happy Birthday Momma

I had a fabulous birthday this year. All started with a cupcake and a song by a couple of my favorite people....








And then as a surprise birthday get away, my lovely husband packed up our trailer and we headed out - yup, just the two of us! Auntie Beans came over to watch Dylan and we were on our way! It was heaven!!!! And my fabulous husband thought of everything down to the seared ahi!


Then it was a weekend with Dad as Momma went away with her girlfriends. Hardware store, bike races, movies, oh boy! Fun times.

Halloween 2011

Halloween night - Dylan and Maggie all ready to head out for some trick or treat fun.

"Trick or treat Catherine" - first stop.

"Anyone home?"

"This house better be giving out some good candy with all these stairs I have to climb!"

Dylan on Planet Candy Land.

"Greetings Human, Trick or Treat, And Let Me Come Into Your Home"

Greeting from a space girl.....

It was an action packed extendo Halloween celebration over here at the Clark house. First off there was the costume party at Little Gym that Madison took Dylan to, then there was our neighbor Lil' Sam's birthday party followed by Trick or Treating up on California Street - where Dylan met Pooh.

Oh it was love at first sight! Then she took off running down the street to trick or treat. It was a beautiful day, which made for TONS of kiddos out and about. Dylan would spot different costumes and say 'hey momma, look a pirate, arrrrgh!', it was very funny.

Auntie Beans met up with us to help tag team the event - and thank goodness as it was a mad house! Jill's comment, which I loved, "thank goodness you dress her in something bright". We took her from store to store, some of the stores you had to actually go into which was a drag as being so small Dylan would push her way in, take 5 minutes (yes, 5 minutes) picking out just the right bite size piece of candy, giving me enough time to get into the store to round her up and shoo her out the door where Auntie Beans caught her at the other end - not sure what I would have done with out her! Dylan had a blast! So you could only imagine how excited she was to get dressed up all over again and hit the Halloween event on admiral Halloween afternoon. Here's a few videos. At the neighborhood bike shop they had a big old spider that would come down from the ceiling. At one point Dylan says she's scared as she's going back in to investigate. We were there for 15 minutes, the whole time Dylan yelling 'more, more, more. hey, come pet the spider'. The other video is of her again running down the street! Thank goodness Auntie Beans joined us again! At our last stop they had a free photo booth. The witch handing out candy asked Dylan if she wanted to get her picture taken, so we went in to take a look. The photographer asked d if she wanted to get her picture taken and very loudly she said 'no thanks, i've got to go.' Everyone had tears of laughter. As we hit the front door she changed her mind and actually really got into it, hence the first photo on the post.








Later that night I draped Dylan and Maggie with glow sticks to really go with the space theme. They looked great. When Matt got home from work we all headed out. Apparently Dylan thought that after you said 'trick or treat' to the neighbors they should let you into their home so you could check out EVERYTHING. After the 3rd neighbors house this happened at I took the dog home to pass out candy and let Matt handle the rest of the treating. HA! They didn't make it too far.

More Halloween pictures to come when I get them from Matt, he took some great ones.

Oh The Fun That Was Had

...today while Momma was away. Madison and Dylan bought some face paints and went to town. Is that my daughter or do we now own a kitty? Ha! They had a great time and I got a good laugh! That Madison is always thinking of the best stuff to do! The other day I asked Dylan "What do you want to do today with Madison?" and all on her own she says "Go shopping and get my nails done". Talk about a good laugh!!!!

Bikes, Cousin Jackie, Goats, Chickens, A Pony Ride, And G-Ma Montana

A few weeks ago we headed out to Aunt Liz & Uncle Ben's farm. It was a beautiful summer day and Dylan was very excited to see her cousin Jackson aka "Jackie" and her G-ma Montana (who was visiting). Cousin Jackson has been racing BMX and was showing us some of his moves which of course inspired little missy to show us some of her moves.


Here she is looking very tough with her big helmet and tattoos.



Of course Dad joined in on the fun, which Dylan (and Jackson) were thrilled about.


Then someone got a little tired and tipped over on her bike.

Funny thing was that her helmet was so big that it made for a perfect head rest. If you look closely she's actually playing in the dirt.

Then we were off to check out the goats and chickens. All was grand until d touched the electric fence - ooops!


THEN... Auntie Liz brought out the pony! Oh boy!!!! Cousin Jackson showed Dylan how to brush and get the pony ready for riding. He even jumped on and showed us some of his moves that he learned at horse camp and of course from his mom. Then it was Dylan's turn. Well i guess her big grin from ear to ear tells it all! She LOVED IT! and the fact that G-ma was right by her side. Aunt Liz totally made her day bringing Dewy Pony out - thanks Aunt Liz!

We have a bunch more photos from the day on another camera which we'll get downloaded here one of these days. After the pony ride there was a big old water fight with Dad, Jackson, and Dylan, which was a hoot!

Zipline

The girl has no fear! Before our lovely summer came to a screeching halt we found ourselves at Lincoln park on Dylan new favorite toy, the zipline. Ask her about it sometime as she will go into full detail about it all even the 'bump' at the end. Oh how she loved it!