Leaf Party 2013

Every year we have a leaf party at Ryan's parents' house. Olivia and Abigail are now the only grandkids left in town on that side of the family. Olivia wanted another kid to play in the leaves with so two of the neighbor kids came and we invited cousin Izzy (on my side of the family.) It was a blast, but everyone was sorely missed!


































Cookie break and nap time for Abigail! These were delicious!























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Olivia P.

Olivia's new favorite obsession is Junie B Jones. We can sit down and I'll read an entire book in one evening. They always make her laugh and she relates so well to them. Olivia reminds me a lot of Junie B with her thought processes and the names she comes up with for things. Olivia was thrilled to find the entire collection in her Scholastic Book Order. We have only read about 5 of them (over and over again.) Tonight we read the one about the monster under her bed. Junie B was getting her class picture taken and telling the photographer (aka the cheese man) about how once she wasn't ready for her picture to be taken. She showed him how she had one eye open and one eye closed. . .and then he took her picture! Olivia laughed and wanted to get her picture taken just like that. I joked that from now on I'll just call her Olivia P.







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Tobey and Abigail

Tobey has quickly become
'Abigail's cat.'I have never seen a cat do so well with someone as young as Abigail. This is how I found them today. Abigail was using him as a pillow. He has taken on the role of protector and is at her door in 3 seconds every time she cries at night.



Tobey has a checkup at the vet this afternoon to determine the success of his last surgery. Hoping for good results! These two. . . .you just can't put a price on that.



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A Love Of Learning

Olivia is doing so great in kindergarten. She loves it so much and has developed such a love for learning. Every night when daddy is putting Abigail to bed, we have our "learning time" that she looks forward to every day. She is doing so well with her sight words and sounding out words. We have such a great time reading sentences together! I just could not be more pleased with how she is progressing. It's amazing!


This was her idea to draw her family with names on sticks. Then we acted out stories with them. I love how she always includes Logan in our family (and all the pets, of course. We have three cats, a hamster and fish.)



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Mary Kay

I wanted to let all of you know that I'm now a Mary Kay consultant! If you are not 100% happy with your current skin care routine, I would love to find one that works for you!Need Christmas gift ideas? One on one consultations? Samples and freebies? Let me know whatever you want or need. I will have a lot of great promotions in the coming weeks and if you are in town or surrounding areas, I will deliver straight to you! You can always order directly from my website as well. I'm here for you and to make you feel beautiful!


http://www.marykay.com/jglunt

If you already have a Mary Kay consultant, please let me know what you like most about her and what your favorite Mary Kay product is! This is so I will know what I definitely need to have in stock! If you don't, I'd love to become your personal consultant!And if I can do anything for you, please let me know!

Thank you all for your support on this new endeavor!

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My Grandma's Memorial

What an amazing and beautiful celebration of my grandmother's life today. I am completely drained, but in a good way as I know she was smiling down on us all.

As you know, very rarely does Olivia wear a dress and even more rarely does she wear tights (and not even complain about it.) And, I don't even wear a dress and panty hose that often! My grandma would have loved their matching dresses. They looked so adorable!




Ryan was even in a suit and tie. I so wish my grandma was here to see us all.



Also, ALL six of the grand kids were able to be there. My brother and I live in town, but the others came from Colorado, New Hampshire and Texas.



Lisa, Jeff, Me, David, Donnie (my brother) and Brandon.



Here are all the grandkids/spouses. My grandma also has two new great grandchildren due in December.

Here is a good picture of my cousin, David, and his wife Emily.



They have a 4 1/2 year old boy named Zachary. Olivia and Izzy played with him all afternoon and tonight I mentioned him and that he was her 2nd cousin. Olivia was blown away. . .like, I have MORE cousins that I don't even know about? LOL! Yes, dear, you have quite a few.

But, all the kids were sooo well behaved. I could not have been any prouder of my girls. And I know my grandma was as well.


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Shelley's Shower

Saturday was my sister-in-law's baby shower. She is due a little before Christmas. Maybe my family will finally have their Christmas baby ( Olivia, Logan and Abigail were all due around Christmas.) It was an adorable shower and had my phone not been on low battery the entire time, I would have gotten more pictures. I can't wait to meet my new little niece.







Olivia adores her great aunt Mary and was so glad she was there.






Here is big sis Izzy and her cousins.












The boots may be for baby Ivy, but Olivia discovered that they also fit her pink bear.







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My earrings

I thought I'd share the story about how I got these earrings.




My grandma gave them to me about 20 years ago, I believe. My grandpa got them for her during World War II when he was stationed in France.



The problem was. . .my grandma didn't have pierced ears. So, she gave them to me. It has been kind of emotional wearing them this weekend. I hardly ever wear them (or earrings at all for that matter.)
Just makes me sad. But, I'm so happy that my grandpa and grandma are together again. When my grandpa died in 2011, I believe they had been married about 68 years!?! I think? What a love story! I hope to give these earrings to Olivia or Abigail someday (although Olivia says she'll never have holes poked in her ears.) Maybe my grandma felt the same way?






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Botanica

Olivia was out of school today, so we spent the afternoon with a friend of mine and her two kids. Her son, Robby, is a year younger than Olivia and her daughter, Alison, is 3 months older than Abigail. So, talk about a fun play date! We decided to head to Botanica, Wichita's beautiful botanical gardens. The fall foliage was so pretty! And their children's garden is so amazing! I had to pry Olivia away from the treehouse.












As my friend, Jenifer, said: Today it's shared bottles, tomorrow it'll be juice boxes and soon it will be coffee.






After twenty years, Jenifer still knows exactly what I need when I'm feeling down. We all had such a great time!

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Happy Halloween

So many things happening today, I had to switch gears a lot. That was tough. We lost my grandma, like I said, early this morning (between 3-4 am I believe?) Her funeral will be Monday at 10 am. If you are needing more info, you may email me.

Twelve years ago on Halloween, Ryan proposed to me by dressing up as a trick or treater.

Our cat, Tobey, had his third surgery and had three more teeth removed today.

Annnd, it was Halloween and we had Olivia's party at school and trick or treating. I am beat. But here are a few pictures from our day.




I made ghost bananas, witch hats and pumpkins for Olivia's party.



We had quite a bit of snacks at the party and a game and a craft. It was a really good party.




Can you find Olivia in the gym?





Olivia's kindergarten class






Abigail had to talk with big sis about exactly what they were doing.




My cute little ladybug.









My sweet little black cat ready to trick or treat.



Happy Halloween everyone!


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Grandma Passed Away

My sweet grandma passed away this morning. It happened faster than we could have anticipated. They assumed we had at least 4 days. But that tells me she was ready to go. She is with her husband and brothers and sisters and parents and her baby boy that she lost. When I told Olivia she said," Great Grandma Wanda gets to be with Logan!!" I'm so blessed to know that Olivia realizes heaven is such a wonderful place!

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My Grandma

I found out this week that they will be stopping dialysis on my grandma and she will be going back home. Hospice is with her now. I think they give her a few days to a week to live. Thankfully she was involved in the decision and I know she is ready to go home and be with my grandpa. She has always been a great grandma and such a sweet lady. I still remember how many pillows she would put on the side of the bed when we stayed the night. . .even when we were way too old to fall out. My favorite color used to be yellow, so she always saved the yellow cup for me. I didn't have the heart to tell her when yellow was no longer my favorite color. 😄 I am thankful that Olivia is old enough to remember her and I really wish Abigail was able to. She has always been a great mother, wife, grandmother and great grandma. Please say some prayers for her and my family during this upcoming week.



















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Update on Tobey

He goes in for his third surgery on Thursday for more teeth extractions. We also believe he has a severe food allergy. This could be the reason for all the vomiting. We aren't sure if it is to seafood, wheat, corn, etc. But, we will most likely have to switch to a hypoallergenic canned food for him. He will have very few teeth left after all is said and done. 😔


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