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Crazy Hair Day in our family is basically considered and treated as a holiday.  We've got it down.  Too bad the night before I had to head to the store at 9pm for some last minute spray that I thought we had in our stash.  The stash had been raided a few months prior for someone's "Fashionista Birthday Party" - this tiny detail forgotten!  In the end....it was well worth it.

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Today I was a chaperone for Cakes KG class field trip to a local farm, known as Dewberry Farm.  Great place.... poorly run.  So it was pretty much a solid day of 1300 kids from schools around the Houston/Katy area fumbling their way through as many activities as they could with no rhyme or reason.  You know what I call that... a cluster-yea well, I'll be nice and won't go there.  But as always, capturing the images from the day kept me more than entertained, and without that bit of background knowledge I just passed your way, well, from this picture I'd say Cakes thought it was a complete success.  Love this shot.

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Best part behind this photo is the story.  Cakes is looking at a boy in her class during her sister's big "speaking" night at their school's dedication ceremony.  She just thinks he is SOOO FUNNY, and of course we all know what that is code for.... CRUSH.  Sorry Dad, this one will give you a run for your money.

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What do you get when you mix two little girls, a big heart, a box of chalk, a rainy afternoon, and an empty garage?

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The next few days are pretty much centered around one thing...and that would be a special little girl's 8th birthday.  Tonight was the birthday party.  The birthday girl, four friends, one sister, and a WHOLE LOT OF giggles and shrieks, it was a "good ol' fashioned" slumber party - complete with swimming, dancing, board games, cake, presents, movies and best of all - A PILLOW FIGHT - I'd say it was a success.  Oh, and you may not be able to tell, but under that pile of giggling girls, is Dad.  :-)

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Between Facebook and 365, I may be giving away my possibilities for this year's Christmas cards, but do you blame me?  Not that I'm biased or anything, but how cute are my girls???

I started the prep work yesterday for today's "Holiday Mini-Session by MoeCakes" - got them new clothes, talked up the fun we would have, curled hair and yes, threatened them just a bit -- that this would go well and we would have a good time....but you know what?!  We DID!  (Insert note below from Moe following shoot!)  

Both of them at dinner tonight told me that their "high" was the photo shoot with Mom!  How cool is that?  And the pictures really show it.  Selena Gomez in the background, crisp fall weather, and just a fun morning all around.  

Pictures shared earlier on MoeCakes Photography -- Facebook.

Goodness I love my kiddos.  Could look at these pictures a thousand times over.  That's when I know - I have some fabulous shots.  And that's why I LOVE photography.  I want to remember these moments - these mornings - these feelings - these faces.  And you should too, of your own loved ones and of your own life- if it's not me, make it another photographer or make it yourself....just capture these moments.  Freeze time.  Hold it close.  Look at it often.  It's beautiful.

Day ThreeHundred-ThirtyFour - Grey's Spoiler!

(I'm not sure what to even type b/c I just watched the Premiere of Grey's and I'm at a loss.  Sigh....)

But ok - onto today's pic.  (Sloan?  So unfair.)  I have a song playing through my head for this past week which is "I get knocked down, but I get up again - you're never gonna keep me down"...but it's the opposite "I get up and get knocked down again - I can't seem to keep my kids up".  Cakes is finally back up (doing her make-up work) and poor Moe is back down.  Upper respiratory and ear infection has struck.  Poor baby.  I think she would prefer the vomit.  This mom is just ready for this week to be over! 

Oh, and I have three shoots over the next three days - all of which are supposed to have rain.  Can someone please do a rain dance for me? (Of course it can't be McSteamy).

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Temporary Tongue Tattoo.....really?  Where does this stuff come from.  And of course Cakes has already gone through all 6 of them.  But then I guess that shouldn't surprise me, please see Exhibit A.

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The mail came today.  Along with Cake's Halloween costume....but this is all you get until the Oct. 31st.

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School is back in session, and right here in my kitchen.  Moe decided that if she had homework then Cakes needed some too.  After realizing maybe Math wasn't the way to go, I suggested she pull out the Alphabet flash cards.  If I only had a recording of this "tutor time" as well.  Let's just say Moe is a definite stickler when it comes to her teaching methods!!

10 days and finally caught up...Phew!!

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Day 7 of school and pink eye strikes!!  Cakes came downstairs this morning with two swollen eyes and this one glued shut, crying because she was blind.  When she heard me say....well, someone's got pink eye, she trepidatiously asked "what happens when someone's eyes are pink??"  Moe's response "They are no longer white".  Gotta love sisterly love.  And gotta love back to school germs.

Are you cringing yet?  Better yet, do your eyes itch now?

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Styled by Cakes herself....oh, and attitude is all Cakes as well.

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Sixty days to go with 365 and this is about how I feel.  Part hallelujah and part ahhhhh!  However, this really is a little glimpse into the energy that these two have come home with every day this week.  And it doesn't end until they fall into bed!  Obviously, school is treating them well!

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Couldn't go with a single shot today for obvious reasons.  It was a big day around here, for those going to school and those staying home - by themselves, in a quiet house, with no kids....Ahhhhhh.  I went the entire day working on MoeCakes website with no tv, no music, no sounds.  Let's just say "It was NICE!"  And I plan to do it all over again, tomorrow!!  As for these two munchkins, after the pain of Mommy leaving the classroom (for Cakes), it all went wonderfully.  Only smiles unloading from the bus.  I'm not one to get too emotional at occasions like this, but I will say, knowing I no longer have kids at home -- well, it did pull at the heart strings just a tad.  :-)

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School starts tomorrow, which means today was spent prepping.  Who needs free haircuts from JCP when you have a mom that likes to channel her inner beautician??!!

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Now here is a crew.  Not often that all nine cousins get to hang out, but with Aunt Mary and Uncle Hans in town it was the perfect excuse for some fun in the sun.

Day TwoHundred-NinetyNine

I'm not a huge fan of little noses in gaming systems of any sort, DS, iPad, iPhone, Wii...whatever it may be...but we just found the charger for the girls' DS' and it's really been entertaining them for the last couple days.  And it's bought Mom a little bit of down time to get my office in a bit of working order...the last room to be touched in the house since we moved in!

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OMG.  2025??  That's just nuts, but dear lord she's just too cute.  Not that I'm biased or anything :-) ....

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After a discussion this past weekend with their Dad about where cotton comes from, what it looks like, how clothes are made, etc. he came home from work with a "bouquet" for each of them.  (Honestly, I don't know if I've ever seen fresh cotton this up close and personal before!)  At first I thought "Awww, he brought me flowers!".... only to soon realize what it actually was.  Don't tell Dad, but in the end, I think this really is just as sweet and thoughtful as flowers for Mom.

Day TwoHundred-Eighty

Hahahahahaha.  Only Cakes.