Happy Birthday to...

Alexandra!!!

Alexandra on her 9th birthday! She LOVED the cookbook and baking supplies that Grandama got for her. She uses them all the time!

Alexandra is 10 years old today. The last year (actually 10!) have flown by! Alexandra is growning into a fun, energetic, beautiful (inside & out!), intelligent, friendly, helpful, .......young lady. I am so proud of her.

Some things about Alexandra......

*She loves sports! She is very active. She just learned to ride a unicycle this summer. It took her two days! She can also rollerblade, rollerskate, skateboard, pogo stick, wave board, use stilts, ride a bike, ice skate, plays soccer, does ballet, runs really fast :)

*She is persistant. She will work at a problem until she figures it out.

*She likes challenging puzzles, like brain teasers. She is good at them. I gave her a book, MInd Benders, and she is working her way through it. I get to help her sometimes...she lets me read the problems and pretend that I am helping :)

*She is thoughtful and helpful. She thinks of other people and how to help them. At Sunday School they were making bags for the kids at the Agape House. The kids were supposed to bring things in for the bags. (toothpaste/brush, socks, toys, etc.) She decided to have a lemonade stand and raise money to buy the stuff for the bags. She raised $25 to donate.

*She has a job. She has delivered the Ferndale Record Journal on Wednesdays for the last 2 years! She earns about $70 a month. This summer she chose to sponser a child. She chose Mark from Ghana. She uses $30 of her money each month to send to him. She also gets a pen pal!

*She is a stinker! She loves to tease :)

*She is my favorite Alexandra Joy McBeath in the whole world!!! And I love her lots!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEXANDRA!

by Alexandra

i'm excited for Aiming High. We're probably going to take a pencil and paper and draw another place like we already drew the library. I want to go to Cascadia. I am also totally excited because tomorrow ITS My B/DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ta da! all done ! byebye! (:

busy weekend....part 3

On Friday night we went to the Ferndale/Everett Homecoming Football game. We won!!! The score was very close. I think it was 21 to 14. They were a good team to play...pretty evenly matched I think. Those games are more exciting to win than the ones that are like 41 to 7 or something like that. Keep you on the edge of the seat. The half time show was fabulous of course. Hard to take pictures in the dark but I got a couple of decent ones. I love the flags flying around.

On Saturday, McKenzie had a birthday party to go to. Her friend, Alyssa (in her class at school) was turning 8 and they had a Spa Lulu party. They had manicures, pedicures, facials, and lots of fancy stuff. She had a great time. After the birthday party....was of course....SOCCER!!

It was pretty cold out on the field, but the sun was shinning, so it makes it much, much warmer. Right? That's what I kept telling myself.... The girls both had good games. McKenzie played first. Her game was at 2:50 and Alexandra had a game at 3:30. McKenzie game was tied 1 to 1 and Alexandra's game was tied 2 to 2. Both really good games!

The nice part is that we only have 3 more games left this season and so far.....the weather has been pretty cooperative. We shall see about this weekend though....I have heard rain, and COLD!

Saturday night was the homecoming dance that Alyssa and Richard went to. Here is my Beautiful daughter.....


Here are the two of them.....

I was the photographer for this event. I got a couple of pretty cute poses (I put some of them on Facebook) They chose not to pay for pictures at this dance, so I told them I would take them, they could pick some out and I would print them for them.

I think that about sums up our weekend!

Have a great Monday!!!

busy weekend...part 2

Photos by McKenzie.....

These are some of the photos that McKenzie took today....

Alexandra doing a backflip

Alyssa, Richard and Alexandra tasting sunflower seeds.

Alexandra in the tree

busy weekend...

My children in the cornfield....

This was a busy weekend! I am going to start with today and work my way backwards! This afternoon we went to McPhail's pumpkin patch to get some good pumpkin pictures. There hours were supposed to be from 1-5. They were closed! I was not very happy. The girls and I, and Alyssa and Richard, had to figure out a Plan B because the weather is not going to be very nice for very much longer, and I was not giving up my pumpkin pictures! Richard said his grandparents had a pumpkin patch just down the road, so off we went.....

McKenzie picking out the perfect pumpkin. There were a few different options and she had a pretty hard time picking one out. I think she did a great job! (Did you notice her manicure? That was from a birthday party she went to on Saturday.)

Alyssa picked two pumpkins out. This is her orange one. She also picked out a green one. Why??? Because she is Alyssa and she wanted to! :)

Alexandra picked out a pretty big one. Can you see her muscles? She was using most of them to tug this pumpkin off of the vine. She got it too!

While we were there, I decided to take some more pictures of the girls. It was a beautiful day out. Not too cold, not windy at all...

They had a very cool tree that we took some pictures of us by it. I like how they turned out.

I like this picture of the four of us. Richard took it, he even did a pretty good job!

McKenzie is my photographer in training! She took some pretty good pictures too!

Stay tuned for more pictures and the rest of our weekend!

Friday!!!

Tonight is Friday Night Football! It is Ferndale's Homecoming game. I still don't remember who they are playing. The girls and I will be going after Alexandra is finished with soccer practice. Alyssa will be playing halftime with the band/guard.

In other random news...these are some pictures from this spring when Alyssa was playing softball. She played on the Ferndale Alliance Church Softball team (Richard's church).

I love this picture! I think Alyssa is trying to catch the ball before Dawn (Richard's mom) gets to base. I love the action in this picture with the ball just floating. :)

An action shot of Alyssa running. You can't see her face, but I like this picture anyway.

That's all for this morning! I am off to my very busy day! Have a Fabulous Friday!!

I love Daycare...

Especially when they all look like this...

Celisse

Brandon

Marcus

This is my favorite time of day. When all of these little angels are sleeping. They are so busy and active during the day, playing, learning, having fun, fighting.....It makes it so wonderful to see them like this.

In other news....

I had a fabulous time at Chinese last night. Yummy food! Good conversation....and it wasn't interupted by any kids (except for the kids across the isle, but they didn't stay very long)

I am excited to start planning a wonderful Christmas surprise for my two younger girls!
IT will be very cool. Practical, yet fun!

That means I have 2 people down and ???? to go, for Christmas presents. I better get started. I do have some fun ideas, I just need more time to get them completed. There are after all, only 78 days until Christmas......and that counts today! I need all the time I can get!!!

Tomorrow is Friday! It is Homecoming for Ferndale. I wonder if we will win or lose? I know the color guard show at halftime should be pretty good! I am excited for that.

Time to go get on with my day! Have a great Thursday!!