I haven't posted in a while because I really prefer to have pictures in my posts and I've been unable to find a memory card reader for the camera I've been using. I finally found a reasonably priced one, though, so all is right in my little picture-taking world again! And now I can finally show you some pictures...some of which are from earlier this summer before my original camera broke beyond repair.

Juliette is a tinny bit obsessed with birthdays right now and it doesn't seem to help that they've had two birthday celebrations at preschool the last few weeks. This is Juliette having a birthday party with her dollhouse people. Notice the each have Happy Birthday cups and forks and she has Happy Birthday napkins in her hand that she is about to put out. Also, I believe the big pitcher is their drink...she didn't tell me what it was. The little people are sitting around the birthday cake which is actually brown PlayDoh. (I know...it looks like a plate of poop!) Also, can you tell what the Dad is sitting on? The toilet from the playhouse! :)
Juliette also LOVES to take pictures and has gotten quite good at it actually. She took this pic of Zoe all by herself. I occasionally just let her have the camera and she walks around snapping pictures. It's fun to look and see what pictures she has taken when she is done (although I do erase all of the unflattering ones of me, though!).
Uncle Chad came to visit for about a week right after we moved in and I believe this picture is from a little "recording session." Notice her pretty accurate hand placement on the the guitar. She looks like a very serious musician!
A couple of weeks after we moved to Lafayette, we did the Tour of Families that I talked about in another post. Well, here are some pics of Juliette on the slip-n-slide at my parents house.
Since she doesn't understand the whole bit about running and sliding on your belly to get to the end, we just took turns practically throwing her down the slip-n-slide.
She had A LOT of fun, but we had to call it quits pretty quickly because of the Attack of the Mosquitoes.
I think I've probably said this before, but my favorite thing to do is applique names and I really love doing them on the backpacks and adding coordinating ribbon. Here are a few I've done recently:



I did this shirt for a teacher at River Oaks for her little girl to wear to the football games. This is the first time I've used the shiny sequin material and I thought it turned out pretty cute!
Less than 2 months to Thanksgiving, so I had to get an example made of a Turkey Tee for my web site and of course, Juliette always gets the first examples I do. I am in love with this turkey...isn't he adorable?!!

I also really like this new embroidery design that I got. I'd been looking for something like this and found it on a new embroidery design web site that I ran across and just had to buy it and do Juliette one. I know it appears as if Juliette's name is plastered all over her clothing, but it's really not...although she will have quite a lot of monogrammed things this fall and winter. Christmas is sneaking up on us VERY quickly and tomorrow I plan on doing a couple of Christmas applique tees for the web site.
As far as the day-to-day here at our house, Matt is busy, busy with his classes and the tons of reading and writing that go with them. Juliette is loving preschool and we have been very pleased so far with UL's program. As for me, well, a job would be nice. I got two rejection letters this past week from two interviews I went on recently, but I got a call Friday for an interview this Tuesday at the University Medical Center (affiliated with LSU Health Systems), so I'm praying this one goes well and would appreciate prayers from everyone else as well!

Next weekend we are supposed to be closing on our house in West Monroe (finally!!) and I also have my 10-year high school reunion in Springhill which I'm looking forward to.

That's about it from our end.

Happy Fall Y'all!! :)