The girls and I had a hair-straightening party tonight. It wasn't that big a deal for Tori, since her hair is pretty straight in the first place, but Emmi and Abbi look quite different! 

Tori playing dress-up, admiring herself in the mirror. 

Notice the Kezzi-inflicted scratch under Abbi's right eye. 

This is a picture of Kezzi I should have posted last week.  

Emmi enjoying her Thanksgiving dinner 

Uncle Jesse came to visit us for Thanksgiving. 

Twister!

Ok, we've survived our first Oklahoma tornado. There was a tornado just a few miles north of us this afternoon. It's not really tornado season right now, but I guess that didn't matter. I heard the sirens, so I thought I'd better turn on the TV to see what was wrong. They had a helicopter following it (is that smart?), so the girls and I got to see it live. It doesn't look like it did too much damage, but it did remind me to teach the girls a little tornado safety. When we were looking at houses, a large percentage of them had shelters.

So, now we've survived the scorpions, black widow, and now a tornado. (Ooops! Did I forget to post pictures of our black widow experience? I'll try to do that soon.) We really are enjoying ourselves here in Oklahoma.

I've been working so hard on the kitchen remodel, that I have been neglecting things like laundry and brushing girls' hair. Kezzi doesn't look too bad here, but she gets worse as the day goes on! Notice the bare cement slab under her, and the bag of toilet repair kits to her left... lots of work to do!

In the past week, we have completely torn out the old kitchen, and all the carpet in the dining area, living room and hall. We have put down ceramic tile in the kitchen and inside the front door. We're planning to make one of our daily trips to Home Depot this morning to pick up cabinets, then that's our next big project. Hopefully we will be able to move in sometime soon!

Home Sweet Home!

Here's Abbi posing in front of what today became our new home!!!

Harvest Moon Festival

Here are our Harvest Moon 2004 pictures. I hope you enjoy them all. You can click on any photo to see a larger version. Sorry for the corny captions!

Here's the whole crew, ready to head out to our church's Harvest Moon festival. It was a really fun night, with carnival games, a great Bible walk, and a chili supper. We had two clowns (Tori and Abbi, the blue eyed girls) and two cowgirls (Emmi and Kezzi, the brown eyed girls).  

Crazy clown! 

Ride em, cowgirl! 

Cutest cowgirl (besides her sister) in the west... (is OK in the west?) 

Tori ready to clown around 

Some clown... er... cowgirl eating 

Some clown eating 

Kezzi enjoying chili at the youth group's Chili Supper 

Abbi ready to go to the Harvest Moon Festival 

Goodbye cockroaches, Hello Scorpions!!
We just moved from Mississippi (land of the giant cockroaches) to Oklahoma. We were told to wear shoes in the yard, because of the scorpions. Well, we met our first one Monday night, walking down the hallway at bedtime. Tuesday night, there was another one! (definitely another one... i spent a lot of time smashing the first one!)