BIRTHDAY WEEK!

Three of our four children had birthdays last week... WOW... We are still recovering!!!

We only had ONE PARTY...
we still have TWO MORE TO COME!

We celebrated Avery's birthday last Friday night with a little AMERICAN IDOL party.
It was great fun!!!

The Burks (our dear friends from Texas) were in town. THANK YOU DEANNA for all the pictures you took during the party!!!
YOU ROCK!


THE NINE YEAR OLD... last year of single digits! LOVE HER!! and I am SO PROUD of her! I love you Avery Ancelet!!
It takes a village to raise a child and give a party! Thank you Christy and Deanna for painting nails and to Charlotte for doing ROCK STAR make up! What a fun night! Thanks D for also taking pictures!


I think Abel did a DUO with everyone who sang. He grabbed the other mic to sing with them!
PRECIOUS GIRLS!


Sing it AUDREY!





My GIRLS!

Abel... is the music that bad? or is it that good that you need to clean out your ears to hear it better?
Avery saved up all her birthday money to get an American Girl Doll. Thanks to Granny Charlotte, MawMaw, Deanna and the Hornes... It was possible! SHE WAS BEYOND EXCITED! Thanks everyone!


Sweet Holly and Avery have the same American Girl Doll... HOW FUN!?

Abel turned TWO YEARS OLD the day before Avery's birthday. We haven't celebrated yet... but when we do, I will post pictures!

We had 20 girls come over to celebrate Avery's birthday! OH WHAT A NIGHT!!!
Even the boys had to jump in for a little SING TIME!!! THE BOYS ARE BACK! (from HS Musical 3)

Happy Birthday to Aidan as well. He turned 7 on the 7th. We will be celebrating his birthday in a few weeks! These birthday parties need a little spacing out!! FOR SURE!
LOVE THESE KIDS! Thank you LORD for such amazing gifts!!!

FALL FESTIVITIES!

Here are some fun pictures from our FALL FUN!
We went to the Mazons on Friday night for their neighborhood gathering (Oct 30th) and then on Oct 31st, we had a Fall Festival. Our youth group hosts this each year in our neighborhood. This year we are living in a neighborhood NEW TO US... so we got to meet a lot of neighbors. It was so much fun!

Here's Aidan as Iron Man


Abel as a Pirate (not a very mean pirate!)

Avery was Selina Gomez...

Addison went to a TINKERBELL party at her friend, Gracie Kate's. She had a BLAST!!!

Here are more of her tinker bell friends...
THIS WAS SO FUNNY... our dear friends, Stephen and Emile came dressed as a HUGE robot (he's almost 7 ft tall) and a ballerina. They are such a hoot!


How absolutely precious are Becky and Johnny!!! LOVE THEM! This brought back some serious memories. I can recite the Pink Ladies Pledge... and yes, I am proud of that!!!

On Halloween it rained! SAD! But we still had lots of visitors to our Fall Festival. We had a cotton candy machine and a popcorn machine. SO FUN!

This was HILARIOUS! Samantha was going to be Taylor Swift so she asked if Abel could be Kanye West... SURE!!! HOW HILARIOUS IS THIS COSTUME!!!

PUMPKIN FUN!

I took the kids to this little pumpkin stand last week. We LOVE the Fall. We've had some wet days over here in East TN. But last Friday we got out (before the Tornado watch) and went to this precious pumpkin stand. This lady sets up every year on the corner of Middle Brook and Piney Grove Church Rd. She actually has a stand all year long but during this time, she sets it up so CUTE!

Things are moving at a crazy fast speed over here. We've had Fall break this week and been doing a project on weather. It's gone by way too fast but I've loved having the kids home all week. We start back to the co-op next Monday.

I have been so busy with photography. My site is www.anceletphotography.wordpress.com
Ted is working on a new logo for me. I am really excited because I am thinking of having some things made (stickers, t-shirts). I have 22 shoots booked this month. WHICH IS GREAT... because I owe on my new camera that I just bought. I have much to save for as well because I recently added 3 lenses to my wish list, some new lighting and I would love to get some basic backdrops. ALWAYS SOMETHING TO UPGRADE TO IN THIS BUSINESS. I am taking it slow but I absolutely love what I am doing.

Precious Moment in the Car

Last night I was driving home with Addie and Abel. Ted has youth group in our home every Wednesday night so I always go out with the little kids and run errands. Last night, we went to TJ Maxx. It was a fun trip... looking for a dress for an upcoming wedding and getting Avery another pair of jeans because the girl is growing like a weed.

We get back into the car to come home and I have the radio station on 88.3. A song comes on and Addie says... "Mommy, I think this is a God song." I said "Yes, baby, it is.". So we listened to the song. Then another song came on. This one was by Dave Crowder. It was called "You never let go.". She is listening to the words and talking about the song... She says "Mommy, is the person singing this song dead?" I said "No, babe he is not." She said "It says God never lets him go." (I think she took that literally... like God is holding Dave Crowder in heaven). I told her that God is with us here.
She said "God is every where." I said "Yes, he is" and she said "he is in our house, he is in this car. He is in everybody's heart". (Ok... I wish you could hear Addie talk while you are reading this because it's the cutest thing EVER!).
I said "Addie, God is in the hearts of those who believe in his Son, Jesus Christ and who have recognized they are sinners and need forgiveness. Those who ask him to live in their hearts.. He is in them". I then said "Addie, do you know what a sin is?" She said "No." So I explained to her when we are ugly to other people and when we lie (keeping it simple)... those are sins. We are sinners.
She said "like Avery?" (that is where a HUGE CHUCKLE IN ME ROSE TO THE SURFACE - but I did not let it out). I said "Addie, Avery is a sinner but so am I. So are you. We all need Jesus... not just Avery." She said "Yes." I explained to her how sin keeps us away from God but Jesus came and lived a sinless life. And he was the sacrifice for our sins on the Cross. I kept it simple but I could see that she was understanding me. (as I looked at her through the rear view mirror).
She said "Mommy, I want to ask Jesus into my heart... will you help me?"
I said "Sure Addie"
and then my PRECIOUS DAUGHTER ADDISON KAYLEE gave her heart to Jesus. Right there in Ted's car on Bakertown Road.

The greatest part of the story (besides the part about Jesus!) is that I made a wrong turn last night and we were lost for a several minutes. Had I not made that wrong turn, I would have gotten home before the Dave Crowder song ever even came on.
I AM SO THANKFUL FOR WRONG TURNS IN LIFE! Because there was NO WRONG in that turn... it was JUST WHERE WE WERE SUPPOSE TO BE!

Praising Jesus today for my precious daughter Addison. Her name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life!

THE CAST

is coming off tomorrow!
YEAH!!!!



I love this picture! DETERMINATION!


My Addie lost her second tooth today. It came out while she was trying to open a "Littlest Pet Shop" toy. OOPS. It was WAY LOOSE. So she's excited and now I have to go find a dollar.... Time to play tooth fairy.


Addie helped me get Abel out for a little photo shoot. I wanted to get some pictures of him before the cast is taken off tomorrow. SO SWEET! These two kids are crazy about each other.


I know I haven't blogged much lately. I have been neck deep in homeschooling and cleaning and photo shoots and LIFE!

But I will try to keep up! More to come....

SCHOOL DAYS!

What an eventful day... It started last night with a trip to the emergency room which ended at about 1:15am.
Sweet Abel broke his little arm (fracture). Long story short.... rough play with siblings... and now he'll be in a cast for 3 1/2 weeks. He got a Cowboy Blue cast. Daddy helped him pick it out.
It was so sad to see him hurting that like.

In the ER... at first, they thought it was just a dislocated elbow. Not the case. The arm he is holding the Popsicle with is NOT the broken arm :-)

This was at the Orthopedic office.

How cute is he with that sling on. OH MY.

This is small but he has a blue cast on. I'll have to take a better pictures ... SOON...

We are so thankful to Charlotte and Helen for staying with the big kids while we spent hours in the ER.

This morning, after some sleep (little), we got the big kids ready for their first day of school at CFC. They were so excited. We were too. It was Aidan and Addie's first time to school. We have homeschooled... and now they are going to school 3 days a week. So we are moving from full time homeschoolers, to part time homeschoolers :-)

This was a tradition in my home... Holding up a sign that says "School Days" with the year we were going into. So here are our kids... keeping the tradition alive.

How cute are they in their plaid shorts. :-)

I love Addie and Aidan's giggle faces.

BACK PACKS!

Here is Addie in her class. Doesn't she look scared? I know I was... But she came home SO EXCITED. She gave her teacher the biggest hug when we left school. She said she a fun day.

When I picked Aidan up from school, I saw his class on the play ground. It was so fun to watch him. He is growing up so fast. LOVE HIM!

The pictures I got of Avery in her class wasn't good and she wasn't real crazy about me pulling out the camera while all of her friends were sitting there. We were late to her class because we were getting Addie and Aidan all settled in their classes.

GREAT FIRST DAY! 09-10 HERE WE COME!