Trick or Treating 2008!

Happy Halloween 2008 from the Barnett girls!!!! Trick or treat.. smell my feet.. give me something good to eat! As we were trying to leave we had our usual go outside and try to take pictures session....

Dalton was cutting up big time! She was SO excited! She was all over the place... and constantly saying... Let's GO!!!!

Avery is trying to let me get a good picture.. and then you see who is striking a pose don't ya!?!

Yes, and it gets better!?!? Of course we were laughing at her because she was SO excited. I mean she had counted it down for a week you know!

Then Avery can't stand it.. she just had to see what we were laughing at!

I am so glad that my girls enjoy getting dressed up, and going to our usual houses for trick or treating. We have Mr Darrell who lives all alone.. his wife passed away from cancer when Avery was small. When we first started off trick or treating Avery was a newborn and Mrs. Janet was there too... but, now it is just him and he was telling us last night how someone asked him to go some where last night and he told them.. I CAN'T GO WITH YOU! LEE BARNETT AND THE GIRLS WILL BE HERE ANY TIME NOW! It was like he got offended that they asked him to leave his house on Halloween cause he was waiting on us. He told us last night that he waits on us every year and that he looks forward to seeing how much our girls have grown up. They hug him when they go in and he gets down on their level and talks to them. It is very sweet. He has this big cool ceramic pumpkin that his wife's sitser made for them years ago that he always serves his candy out of, BUT the girls have special goody bags already made up there are in the kitchen on the table that he goes and wags back to them with TWO HANDS!

Lee goes by all the time during the year to visit with him too. Lee is so good about doing these types of things.

Here is my happy Goo Goo Dancer girl again!

Check out those shinny white spray painted boots! I got Avery's at a second hand store for $1!!!
She was talking about wearing them to school... I was like.. OH, I don't think so sister!

Once again it was a beautiful night! Every house we went to they were like.. hold on let me go and get THEIR bags! LOL Like we could have come home after we went to the first house! Actually, we could have even stayed home because someone came by to give them their candy because they were having a Sunday school party.

Here is my big Goo Goo dance girly! Happy Halloween to everyone... I hope you have wonderful family traditions like we do. Just remember that you kids will be grown and gone before you know it.. enjoy it while you can! Because I have we do!

I am SO happy that fall is finally in the air! Now we have a birthday party (hayride) tonight!

P.S. Excuse any BLURRY pics.. Lee was trying to work the camera for a little bit! Not that I am perfect, but I am ALOT better than him! LOL

My fall swap goodies!!!!!

Would ya just look in that box!?!?!?!? Today when I got home I found my fall swap surprise from Michelle sitting on the porch. It was filled to the RIM!!!!!! (There are 2 things already gone out of the box too when I took this picture too!) And would you just LOOK at why Avery squealed when she looked in the box?!?! They had NO idea that they were getting surprises too!

They were SO excited! You should have seen them running around with their presents!

After the go ahead from me they were opening very carefully....

They take unwrapping gifts seriously!

Ohhh, I wonder what it is!?

Avery said... Oh, yea!! Oh, yea!!!!!

Then she starts reading on the box.....

And Dalton is excited about what hers looks like too.....

And then Avery realized that they are going to actually MOVE after they build the little thingys!!!! (Thank goodness that I have AAA batteries!)

It is like Merry Christmasholloween... Just look at all the stuff!

Oh, and LOOK at MY fall goodies.....

How pretty is THIS!?!?!?

and OH look at these hand towels!!!!!!!!

How cute is this little scarecrow guy!?!? Avery loved him too!

Thank you Michelle for my fall swap gift! I love everything! It was just the pick me up that I needed after the long day that I had today. The topper was the gift for the girls!! Thank you for thinking of them! They were SO excited that you thought of them too.. you should have seen them decorating the different little guys!! They had a ball! And then when we got the batteries in it was really something! I am so glad that you got to participate too! Happy Fall to you too!!!! Thank you VERY much!

My sweet Avery

Well, what can I say about sweet ole girl!?!?

I'll do it myself....

She did and it looked pretty dang good even if I do say so myself!!

How do you discipline your children?

How do you discipline your children? Do you spank? Do you talk to them? Do you take things away? Do you ALWAYS think they are in the right now matter what!??

I am just interested in the different ways that people discipline. I am NOT in need of advice. This is just a random question. And... yes, before you ask.. we DO spank. WE don't have to very often and when we do is a VERY long time before we have to again. You can say that we DO have our bluff in on our girls, and they know who is the boss int his house and that we mean business. We talk to them first.... then when needed the there is the dreaded trip to the bathroom. I am happy to say that our girls are very good almost all of the time, but when the limits have been pushed we give them a reality check. I see some children that literally run over their parents, and I just don't understand that.

I am in total shock...

May God bless the Anne Pressly family.

I hope and pray that they catch who did this to her, and that they get what they deserve. It is my understanding that she never got to give her own details as to what happened that night in her home.

Gas prices

Last night gas was $2.50 per gallon at Wal-Mart in Crossett. So, that means if you went inside and got a prepaid card then you would have gotten it for $2.47. WOW! I am wondering what the lost it is going to get to. The down side to this is that the price for soybeans that we (my farming operation) are trying to sale is down. Crazy how everything has a domino effect on each other!

What are the prices in your area?