HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

Drew bought me a new computer for my birthday, which was great, however instead of having a desktop it has a "cloud".  I have no idea what that means and it takes a long time for me to learn new things.  Anyway, I borrowed his more familiar computer to update Blessed by Three. Here is an entry of mixed up pictures of Halloween and the days surrounding the festivities.

 Jia had to make a Halloween costume for her teacher 

and then write about her choice.

Jia chose a Magician because Mrs. Williams knows everything!

 When Jia is plugged in nothing makes her move

 Lesa's Starbucks No-cook Protein Dinner

Even Drew liked it!

Provolone cheese, grapes, hard boiled eggs, apples and peanut butter

Katie's Steak Salad 

Steak, cheese, cherry tomatoes, baby lettuce

 Jia is a watermelon fairy

...and in Orlando

 Chelsey, Anna and Mandy going to a fraternity Halloween party

(I checked out the fraternity and Victor went with them

she is still my baby and always will be)

 Chelsey and Anna going Trick or Treating

Yes, they really did

Anna's pumpkin

Halloween and Hair!

We bought Styrofoam pumpkins and decorated them!

Jia decorated her pumpkin as a cat and tried her mask on! (it has glow sticks attached) 

The "Marilyn Monroe" pumpkin 

Katie hiding her face as usual, she spent all day working on a science project and got a 100%! 

With the money from Nona, Jia purchased 3 new outfits from Build-a-Bear. 

Anna and Victor made chicken fried rice and vegetable fried rice for the family. 

Katie's alien pumpkin! 

Anna's new hair experiment! 

We bought her extensions to make her hair seem longer and to stop her from damaging her natural hair even more!

Ann Rice Quote for the Day I Love This!

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are. 

Anne Rice

LESA'S HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

UPS STORE

 HERCULES!

 MY BEST FRIEND

 I NEED ANOTHER BIB

 YOUNG LOVE

 JIA WOULDN'T GO ANYWHERE NEAR THE CRABS

 OPENING ANNA AND VICTORS BEAUTIFUL GIFTS

 MA-MA LOVES ANNA

TINK JUST WANTS TO GO TO SLEEP

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LESA UPDEGROVE PARNHAM BY ANNA

 Baby Lesa

 Lesa and Craig

 First Grade

 

Florida Central Academy

 

Apollo Peer Counseling

 

 Lesa and Drew

First Picture in front of the Students!

OMG

They are going out!

 

The Best Thing that ever  happened...

 Mom at Anna and Katie's 5th grade birthday Party

 Getting older...

 Fifty One!

JIA HAS A PLAN

Mom: Hey Jia, are you still going to marry Parker?
Jia: Yes, are you going to marry Dad?
Mom: Dad and I are already married
Jia: Oh, so does that mean you are going to get divorced?
Mom: I wasn't planning on it
Jia: Well if you do Dad and I will have to stay here because I have to go to school and he has to work. You don't do anything so you can go.
Jia: (thinks for a minute) Or we can all just sleep in separate rooms
Lets Just hope that someone's parents are getting divorced because I do not know where this comes from wait a minute- (it could be her big sister Kate who is always tricking her)

 NOTICE IN THE TOP PICTURE OUR LITLE CHINESE GIRL'S FAVORITE FOOD
                                                                    SUSHI!

I'M A CRAZY GATOR!

College Football seasons and Pro Basketball seasons are so tough. I am not a good sports fan, things get knocked over, pillow get grasped, My family tells me to stop yelling at the tv (talking to the tv happens to me during HGTV as well) and sometimes they make me go into the other room....then we have baseball (yawn) and the worst--Hockey- as Mr. Canadian actually drags me to the arena.  If anyone ever wants to go with him, just let me know.  If Calgary plays the Panthers it is a holiday in our home...

Anyway, GO GATORS!!!!  And will someone please give Timmy a job (uh, JACKSONVILLE-A NO-BRAINER

KATIE IS A GENIUS-THE REST OF US, NOT SO MUCH...

KATIE'S PROJECT

LET ME JUST TELL YOU THAT IF I WERE IN SCHOOL TODAY IT WOULD BE HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT I WOULD RECEIVE A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA, LET ALONE A COLLEGE DEGREE.

OUR BUSY LITTLE HONORS STUDENT IS TAKING HUMAN BIOLOGY ONLINE.  SHE HAD AN EXAM THE OTHER DAY THAT SHE HAD TWO TRIES AT.  KATIE GOT A 90% ON THE FIRST ONE, WASN'T HAPPY, SO PROCEEDED TO TAKE IT AGAIN AND GOT A 100! 
(WHO DOES THAT???)

THIS WEEK SHE HAD TO DO AN ONLINE PROJECT

I JUST THOUGHT THAT SOME OF YOU MIGHT FIND THE PICTURES INTERESTING.
WHILE SHE IS DOING THIS KATIE IS MULTITASKING, PLAYING HER SIMS GAMES AND WATCHING HER LATEST SERIES OF SHOWS.
 I WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW SHE WERE HERE IF SHE DIDN'T COME UP TO SAY "GOODNIGHT MOTHER" OR "GOOD NIGHT LESA"
NOW I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THIS PROJECT IS
THERE ARE MANY MORE PICTURES.
I'M  JUST THINKING MAYBE WE COULD USE THIS AS JIA'S FOURTH GRADE SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT?  THINK THEY WOULD GO FOR THAT?

AS YOU KNOW OUR BEAUTIFUL DAISY PASSED AWAY ABOUT A MONTH AND A HALF AGO.  SO THE WOMEN OF PARNHAM SOUTH DECIDE IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO GO TO ANIMAL CONTROL "JUST TO LOOK!!!!!!" HA!  ANYONE WHO KNOWS ANNA AND I KNOW THAT SELF- CONTROL IS NOT OUR STRONG POINT.  KATIE WASN'T WITH US TO SLOW US DOWN AND JIA WAS OUR SILENT PARTNER..WELL, YOU KNOW HOW THAT GOES, WE LEFT WITH A 49 POUND BEAST THAT DREW CALLS A "PUPPY'"  THIS PUPPY CAN KNOCK ME OVER AND THE HUFFY LITTLE CATS HAVE TAKEN THEMSELVES OFF TO THE GARAGE AND WE HAVEN'T SEEN THEM SINCE.  DREW LOVES THE DOG.  I HAVE HAD EVERYTHING THAT WASN'T CHEWED  ON, RIPPED, OR OTHERWISE DEMOLISHED FINISHED OFF.  THE NEW PUPPY IS CALLED ARGO-OF JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE, NOT THE MOVIE ( WE WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO OUR CANADIAN  RELATIVES.)  THE GIRLS WANTED TO NAME THE DOG "TARGET" AND THOUGH IT IS MY FAVORITE STORE, I REFUSE TO RUN UP AND DOWN THE STREETS YELLING TARGET!  I THINK WE NEED AN INTERVENTION, OR AT LEAST A SIZE AND WEIGHT REQUIREMENT.

STAY TUNED: NEXT WEEK WE HAVE A VISIT HOME FROM ANNA AND VICTOR, MOM'S B-DAY FESTIVITIES, A REALLY GREAT PRESENT AND SOME MORE TERRIFIC NEWS FROM KATIE.
LOVE.
LESA XOXO