Our Turtle Adventure

We are home in Missouri for a month and my children have been able to enjoy the great outdoors without the fear of sand fleas. We have come accross some other animals that we don't get to expreience as much at home.

Meet Emmi the turtle.

Frogee wants to know what it is.

He thinks he is pretty cool!

Birdee wants to have him come to her and calls her like she does our puppies!
Paul wants in on the action.

She was building Emmi a house.

A tunnel was a better idea

Game Stop Wish List

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme

TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What is your holiday wish for your family?

I really wish to get so spend some quality time with extended family.

2. What is your Christmas morning / Hanukkah Nightly tradition?

We have muffins after opening our stockings.

3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be?

An embroidery machine! I have my fingers and toes crossed.

4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money?

Quality time. We also have a collection of books that we read all related to Christmas.

5. What games did you play with your family growing up?

Mario Brothers on the Super Nintendo

6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood?

Egg Junk for breakfast and special ornaments every year.

7. Where would you go for a Christmas/Hanukkah-away-from-home trip?

To our parents house. We are stationed in SC and all of our family is in MO and AR.

8. Check out GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year?

1. XBOX 360 with Kinect

2. Any of the Hasbro Game nights for the Wii

3. Seaseme Street: Elmos A to Zoo Adventure for the DS.

Today we honored our Papaw, Paul Penn Jr. by releasing balloons to heaven.


Paul Penn Jr
October 20, 1935 - November 2, 2010

Giveaways!

Tis the season! I have run accross an amazing giveaway that is happening at not only one blog but at a total of 5 blogs. The amazing people at HP have given 5 bloggers the chance to give away an HP TouchSmart 600 PC. To enter head on over to

You have 5 chances to win one of your own!

Check out each of the five reviews below to find out how great touch screen access to info, entertainment and social networks can be, and to enter each blogger's sweepstakes of a HP TouchSmart⁶⁰⁰ PC!

Kelly, from Kelly’s Korner, loves how her new HP TouchSmart 600 has great photo editing, slide show and movie applications. Find out what other features have her blown away!

See how the HP TouchSmart 600 has brought Stephanie, from A Year of Slow Cooking, and her family together. “I’m excited that my husband and the girls are so excited, spending so much time playing together, and fooling around with all of the programs.”

Jen, from My Charming Kids, just hasn't been able to keep her hands off it—after all, it is a TouchSmart! “I have died and gone to computer heaven, my friends…there is a program that helps me access Twitter, photo storage and organization solutions that make an obsessive organizational freak like me salivate.”

Check out how the HP TouchSmart 600 has become a family favorite for NieNie, from The NieNie Dialogues. Her children “love how easy it is to do Barbie's make-up with their fingers on the screen.”

Sophie, from BooMama, adores the Recipe Box feature that lets her “add any recipe I happen to run across on the web and will even READ THE RECIPE OUT LOUD TO ME while I cook.”

To read more about this amazing product head on over to BlogHer and read all about it!

Pony Rides make for a full day!

Princess getting her helmet on. I am not sure if she was more excited to ride or wear a helmet.

Princess on King Arthur. He was a wonderful pony.

From the conversations on the way home I have to say that she liked it.

Pumpkin Patch Part 2

Princess running in the feild of pumpkins.

Posing on a pumpkin

Frogee and his pumpkin. He is sitting now all by himself!

After the pumpkin patch we drove a little farther up the road to ride a pony for the first time. Even though it was nap time I could not miss out on this opportunity.