Painted Horses

Today we painted horses

Madie's horse is named Heer-y-en (?)

Ellie's is named Sparkle

Madie's Christmas Party

Mrs. Lowery decided to order Sonic kids meals for all of her chickens and then they all decorated cupcakes.  Their book exchange was "hot potato" exhange.  The kiddos L.O.V.E.D. it.  Madie got a Fancy Nancy book.

Ellie's Christmas Party

Mrs. Bockhaus had a breakfast themed party and did a "right/left" book exchange.  Sweet Ellie ended up with Pinkalicious.  =) I got to meet Shaye Shaye's mom and Brianna's mom for the first time.

Aunt KK and Cousin Cass

One of the worst things about living up here is being so far away from the Brumfield part of the family. We were lucky enough to have Aunt KK an cousin Cass come spend the better part of the past week with us. They arrived late Monday night and left Thursday night. And even though Cass says we did "nothing" it was a pretty adventuresome week. Thursday alone involved a trip to Build a Bear, a trolley ride and a carousel ride -or- according to Madie, we went to a bears house, rode a train and rode a horse.

Over the river and through the woods.....

..... To MiMi's house we go

It's Parade Time

It's a parade at MiMi & Poppie's house.

Mini Me

I finally talked her into wearing my hair jazz.

Pawpaw and Madie

This is from our fair visit - October 2011. Madie's first visit with her "fast, big girl racehorse- Regan". And this is when Madie and PawPaw became as thick as thieves, bonding over Regan.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas my beautiful babies. I hope all of your wishes come true now and forever more. You are my reason.

HoHo on a ChooChoo

Every year, on the Saturday before Christmas, District One fire station drives Santa through the neighborhood on a fire truck. It is a tradition we LOVE. And while the faces on the street have changed over the years, the Hardy's remain constant.

Santa! We love that guy!!!

My little helper

Ellie's first Christmas candy - popcorn balls!!!

3 bags of popped popcorn
1 stick of butter
1 16 oz bag of marshmallows
1 cup of packed brown sugar

Melt butter, marshmallows and brown sugar for 2 minutes in microwave. Stir and return to microwave for 1 minute. Pour over popcorn. Roll into balls and add sprinkles.

Spring 2011

My friend, D - no uh, took these in the Spring at Norton Art Gallery. We made beautiful babies. That is - Jay and I made beautiful babies. Not me and DeAnn. ;-)

I saw these dresses in a shop when I went in to pick up a baby gift for a friend. I immediately fell in love with them, but really didn't want to pay that much, especially since the girls wear uniforms to school and our "church clothes" are way more casual than this. But when I went back to pick up the gift, I had Madie with me. Wouldn't you know she spotted that dress on the rack. And they had two - one in each girl's size. =) So Madie tried it on. And fell so very far in love with it. She showed everyone in the store and twirled from one side to the other. Of course we bought them. And of course when we got home - Ellie HATED them. So much so that I had to make her try them on to see if it fit. And then she hid behind the table and wouldn't let me see her in it. Thankfully, when I explained how much I loved the dresses and how much the pictures would me to me, my sweet souled girl agreed to take beautiful pictures for me. And she did. <3