Hey you all, we are in Texas, whoo hoo!! Getting just about all settled and loving it so far!

The kids have all started school and they LOVE it, yay! Then my baby princess is going to be starting preschool this week :( Whaa, how has she gotten so big! If that’s not enough, she will be 5 on the 28th!

Here’s my little Texas princess with her “best friend CoCo”, who had to be in the picture with her. You can tell that CoCo is thrilled, lol.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this sweet little outfit by Gumdrop*Shop :) Melissa way more than outdid herself! How much do I totally love these ruffles on these jeans! Seriously tdf!

So, we are in transit to San Antonio, hanging out in Branson, Missouri! After 3 years in Virginia, we waved by to it on Friday last week. In two more weeks we should be all settled in our new home :) I’m excited about Texas, whoo hoo!! Wonder if I can get my little skater boys to wear a cowboy hat and some boots?

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!! Finally tonight I got my Christmas picture done of my kids (+ cat), talk about some serious procrastination this year!

It was quite a process, 4 pictures. First the boys, then Cat, then Cayley and last CoCo the cat. They were all merged together in Photoshop. You can tell the boys are so NOT thrilled about the whole thing! Cat on the other hand was super excited knowing that it would look like she did it all, lol. She had her “evil” laugh going on during the shoot she was so excited. Cayley just loves pictures and to pose so she was easy too. Now, the cat, well that took a few (10-20) tries. She wasn’t in the posing kinda mood it seemed, lol. But finally got a good one of her sitting and looking at the camera.

Oh, and can you seriously believe this year is almost over? Crazy huh, that it’s almost 2010! AND, New Years day my eldest baby turns 13, boo-hoo! A teenager, I just can’t believe it!

Then also in Jan we are moving to San Antonio!! Whoo-hoo, I’m so excited! Don’t get me wrong, I really do love Virginia Beach, but man to not have winters really anymore, what a dream come true!! Maybe next year I will be able to get all the kids to wear cowboy boots in their holiday pic? Thinking of it all now, let the plotting begin, I know I will have one unhappy teenager when he finds that out, lol.

Remember the Mohawk hat I had in my last post from Gap? I got it :) Whoo-hoo! Yesterday I managed to get my little guy to pose for me for a few pictures. I admit, it wasn’t hard, I’m blessed with children who actually love to take pictures :) Now he is a boy, so we got more “funny faces” than picture perfect ones. But they are perfect to me!!

This one cracks me up, such a funny face! Check out our kitties pink paws, lol. Nope, I didn’t paint them, she is wearing little claw covers. Guess it makes it easier for the kids to torture her without fear of retribution.

Here’s a nice serious one, he’s such a handsome little guy :) I can’t believe he is now 8!

And one more funny face one, I call this one his surprised look OR “catchin’ flies”

Let me leave you with one more funny. Remember the cute “Talk to the Moose” commercial I posted? Check this out, so funny! I watched it at least 5 times :)

Have you seen this Gap commercial? These little girls kill me, it’s so stinkin’ cute! My daughters want me to rewind it so they can watch it again and again. Then they walk around chanting the commercial. Seriously so catchy!

Even more so the clothes are so cute!! OMG how I adore the bright, cheery colors! I need to get myself down to the Gap to get some for my own girls :)

So, ready for a Christmas deal? If your daughter has any of the outfits from that commercial and you are interested in a session, I will wave your session fee and it will be FREE!! Nothing better than free right, lol. That is how much I love those outfits! Of course you better prepare her for me singing the song the whole session.

Now, not to leave out the boys. I also LOVE this from Gap!! I’m going to have to see if I can stuff my 8 year olds head into this Mohawk hat because it is the coolest! I so wish I had a baby boy to put that little bear hat on :) So if you don’t have girls you aren’t excluded from my special offer! Dress your little guy up in either of these outfits and your session is FREE too!!

Okay, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE textures!  Seriously, addicted to what it does to an image.  Now Totally Rad Actions has made the coolest plug-in ever for doing them!  And I WANT it :0)  Seriously, I really want it!  It’s called Dirty Pictures, clever name huh.  Of course it’s not for those kind of pictures.

Check out their little video of it here, super cool.  Hopefully I will win it, then I will be a happy camper…

And because, well a post is worthless without a picture.  Here is my princess with her “wings”, she was using these to fly with…

Oh my goodness, is this a gorgeous family!

Jessica it was so much fun getting together with you and your family!  I hope you love your sneak peek, I loved so many it was hard to choose :)

My sweet little girl.  Of course you can see she was thrilled to talk a picture for mommy :)  But I love this little MJ outfit and needed a pic of her in it for memories.

Gorgeous textures from Brenda and a freebie from Kaleidoscope featured on MCP, love that one!!

Rainy days make for some great puddle jumping when the sun dries up :)

How much do I LOVE this little set by Giraffikiki?  It is so sweet, LOVE the details on the top, the little girl is holding a basket with little button eggs.  Then the fabric is so gorgeous, I adore the vintage feel to it, and Cayley loved that it had a little “Bambi” deer.  You can find this little skirt on Shelley’s etsy :)

Now this sweet little bunny she has had since she was born :)  It was a gift from her brothers and sister.  At one point it was bigger than her!

And we were done, she make a mad dash for the car to head home, lol…

Thanks so much for looking, take a peak at Shelley’s etsy shop, she has the cutest stuff!  Goodness, I have things in my virtual cart from her shop :)  Love Shelley, she is a joy to work with!!