When I said Handsome... Did I Also Mention Beautiful?

You had to have read the previous post to get the title.  Are these pictures not adorable!!  Jessica (Mudpies and Butterflies Photography) did these last Sunday.  She was awesome!  Believe it or not, this is the first professional photos I have had done of the two of them.  They just were not ready until now, but as you can see they had a great time!  I will be getting about a hundred more photos to brag about soon.  Hope you enjoy!

I'm Back! With Updates

Well of course to start with I have not posted in a LOOOOOOOOOng time! So much has happened since school started I don't know where to start. Cason is famous, or at least in his lil world he was pictured on the spring enrollment schedule of his college. So many people have made mention of it he feels a little like a celeb.


Cason is transferring to OSU for the spring semester. He and I will go on Thursday and find a place for him to live as well as go through the orientation. He is so ready to go, not so much his mother ready to let him! He has been at Altus for three semesters and I know it's time for him to go but still not so easy. He is majoring in Chemical Engineering and so far has a 4.0 gpa, hope that stays that way when he gets to Stillwater :)



Kelissa has been in fall softball, cheerleading, and a bit of cross country. Her life is always full. She decided to compete in the Miss Oklahoma Teen USA pageant on Nov. 19-21. She decided four weeks before the date so she has been working out non stop. It's nothing for her to do a three hour workout after school, so not seeing a lot of her these days.

Kade just finished up Middle School football. They had a good season. He is doing weight lifting now. He is competing today in the AFR speech contest and if he wins will go to State. He sort of has his sister's skills in public speaking so I'm hoping for the best. He is a bit of a celeb himself right now, everyone thinks he looks like the teen heart throb, Justin Beiber. You should see his "One Time" impression.

Chloe is rotten. She has a large vocabulary and uses it on all of us! She is starting dance in a couple of weeks. She did cheer camp (sort of) and is just charming us to death. We are still pinching ourselves to make sure this is all real.

Chi is getting ready for his third birthday. He is so excited, but still prefers to be 'the baby'. He is getting over a bit of his shyness. This is making him a rather 'rowdy' boy, but who cares. He seems very bright and still 'loves' his grandma. I don't care, I'm the mom, but this boy is handsome!!


Chloe and Chi have been home two years as of October 16th. It is still hard to believe.  They are both doing so well. Better than we deserve. We are so blessed and thankful. My babies are growing up so fast!...all five of them. Life is fun in the Sanders' household, we just need more 'time' to slow down.

Back to School

Kade after first day of school.
Kelissa and Michaela getting Kelsey ready for J.A. initiation at 5:30 in the morning.
I don't know............. did she hit it or not?


It's been a long time since I sat down to post, mostly because we've been so busy but partly I just got burned out! This summer passed by way too quickly and now that we're back in school I'm going through my normal doldrums. I'm the only Mom I know who dreads school starting. I don't know why. I just like my kids at home with me. This is the first year Cason is living away from home, forget that it's only 30 miles away, it's still weird around here without him. I feel like one of my little chicks fell out of the nest and I need to go looking for him. Ha ha! He'd kill me! Kelissa has brown hair. That's a first. I don't particularly like it, but then of course she LOVES it! Chi is officially potty trained! Never thought it would be so easy. Where is my baby boy! Girl's softball is in a winning season. That is a first! We are having four to five nights a week of softball. It is wearing us all out! Kade starts football this Thursday. High school starts on Friday. I'm back to working full time again since Cason is off to college. Not my favorite thing with chasing all these kiddos! Chloe is in her independent 'do it myself stage' so I rarely get to help her with anything anymore...... Oh, gotta go. I see everyone piling out of the feed truck. Time to get dinner on the table!

Kelissa Softball '09

A Few Random Pics from Miss Ok Pageant

This past week was none less than brutal for Kelissa. Waking every morning at 5:45am and getting to bed as late a 1:00 am from Sunday through Saturday was a barely survivable schedule. She did not make the top ten but did get some nice scholarships and many new friends. She had a blast! I guess as the 'mom' judge I would say she was in the running in every category except for talent. It killed her. Those girls were amazing in their talents. Kelissa will have to focus on her dance for a whole year in order to get on the stage with some of the girls we saw at state. She was spoiled absolutely rotten by her pageant committe who gave her gifts every time we turned around!

This is the winner and one of Kelissa's new great friends.

Here they are.

This was the first runner up with Kelissa, what a pianoist!!! wow!

This is one of Kelissa's friends that go way back to other competitions when they were little girls.

Kelissa's room was decked out for the week. It was quite incredible!
This is two little future queens with Kelissa.
When you follow Kelissa's transportation, this is what you read. We got plenty of stares all week.
This is Kelissa's pageant director and her husband. They are awesome!!!!
This is Kelissa's ride for the week. We were LOUD!

It was a great learning experience and a lot of fun! She goes to HOBY this Friday, then Dallas, then Colorado, then church camp, then cheerleading camp, then Miss Altus, then Patriots Academy, so we have a lot of running around ahead of us!!!

Oh My Time Flies!

Oh my I can't believe how long it's been since the last post. Really life is good and I miss every one of my blogger friends. Things have been quite crazy here. School is out!!! yeah!!!!! Kelissa is at Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen pageant in Tulsa this week and finishes her pageant on Friday night, so we are heading up there on Wednesday. Ray and Terri came for a visit last week and we had a blast! You can look on her blog http://isaiahandabbie.blogspot.com/ to see pics. Work has been extra busy. Cason is taking online summer classes and working. Kade is working and Kelissa will be as soon as this pageant ends. I really have to run now, but I'll download a couple of pics if my computer will hurry up. God bless!

Finally! Chloe's Birthday pics

Chloe had been waiting for April 22 to arrive ever since Chi's Dec. 12 birthday. This day had been on her little mind for a very long toddler time! She chose 'Little Mermaid' as her theme and stuck to it for three months! She knew it was her day and she enjoyed every second of it as you can tell. We had a wonderful time spending it with her and making her the little princess for the day! She liked the whole concept of being a "big girl" for the day but when she woke up the next morning she declared that she would just go back to being a 'baby' once again. Oh well!

Feeding the Cattle-Chloe and Chi's favorite outing