The tradition continues...

Not as good as last year. What alien are they looking at the top of the booth? Who knows?



More from the fair at a later date.

The bigness' night out

Todd and I are very lucky to have family close enough to be able to do something like a special night out with ONE child. Lilly was with my mom for a sleep over when Drew got his night out with us. I think if Drew could have planned it himself, it wouldn't have been any different. All things that Drew deems fun, exciting, or related to chocolate were involved.

We all know Drew's fascination with NASCAR-McQueen-fast cars would lead us to this place. He was talking about riding the small NASCAR all day long leading up to our evening out.

The menu for the evening:


Drew making a wish in the foutain that he would be old enough or tall enough to ride the Go Carts.


Drew heard the angels singing down upon him when he caught a glimpse of this view


Todd rode with him and said he was pretty quiet(unusual for Drew)but just took everything in. A few times Todd said he would shout, "Bumpy daddy bumpy"



We ventured inside to a place of pure joy for Drew. A land of loud video games, basketball, and ski ball(a favorite of mine as a kid)

AS you can see...Drew's alingment with the hoop is right on, but that darn plastic piece was in the way.


Here is our remedy for the plastic piece. We showed you basketball game.


I am sure it won't surprise any of you that Drew couldn't get away from the video games where you drove cars.


Look at the face. Pure concentration meets pure elation.


The night wouldn't be complete for Drew without a giant(for him) chocolate chip cookie from Mrs. Fields Cookies.


Not only did we leave the mall with a cookie, but Drew got a new hat to support the local college. What a fun night for the Bigness.



Until our next special night out with Lilly...I wonder where she would like to go?

Lucky us!

We are so fortunate to have a friend like Melody who captures moments like these of our family. Drew and Lilly got their first taste of real candy with these giant lollipops in a sea of giant mustard plants. We had such a great time getting these shots!





Big surprise that she was the messiest by the end of the day


On a sugar high maybe?


Thanks so much Melody!

More from Melody

Todd and I had a few moments too. I love my husband!



The fish-eye lens



I am telling you...if you need a photographer, call Melody. Or call me because I have coupons for first time clients :-) You won't be disappointed.

Yipppeeeeee!!!

So most of you talk to me regularly know that we (as a family) just got our pictures professionally done by a very talented photographer from our church named Melody White. Melody put a few previews up on her blog, so I thought I would share. We had so much fun and would highly recommend her to anyone in the market for a local photographer :)

Check us out at Melody's site

I enjoyed taking a break from me being the one always taking the pictures. Letting the talented, artistic, and trained eye take pictures is a way better idea.

The Photo Booth

My apologies for not having a scanner to scan these into the computer...but you can't leave the fair without doing the famous photo booth. From the expressions on their faces, Lilly and Drew feared the booth during the picture taking. More fair pictures to come.