Kali and Gwyn

These pictures are from Halloween. I just love them though, because you can see how great of friends Kali and Gwyn are. Gwyn just adores Kali and loves sitting in her lap and giving her loves. It is so sweet.

Christmas Tree

The day after Thanksgiving we decided to go and cut down our Christmas tree.  The weather was beautiful and pretty warm.  The kids had a great time.  We later came home decorated the tree with ornaments and put up the rest of our Christmas decorations.  It is definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Bristol Turns Six

Bristol's birthday was November 10th, but I have been a little busy the past few weeks and haven't even downloaded the pictures until today.  We had a small birthday party for her with just a few friends (it was even more than I was wanting, but it was hard to have her limit it to the girls that came).  They all made bracelets with beads and charms.  I needed somethings simple, and it ended up being that way.  The kids seemed to have fun.  We didn't have her party until the 19th because Nate worked the weekend before and lets face it I couldn't get ready for a party all by myself.

Bristol's Birthday Day

Note how half of the cake is missing.  That would be because Nate cut the cake up and served it onto plates.  When I got into the kitchen I asked him, "What about putting candles in the cake and singing happy birthday?".  Nate:"oh shoot".  He was just being too efficient I guess.  Bristol didn't seem to mind at all, she was just happy that she got cake.

 Bristol's Birthday Party

I didn't get any pictures of them sitting around the table making their jewelry, but that is what happened first.  We didn't go straight into opening presents.

My friend Dora and me serving up the cake.

Bristol's cake, I made it to her exact request.  Kind of a random cake if you ask me, but hey it is what she wanted.

I can't believe it has been six years.  Time has gone by so fast and she is growing up so fast.  She has lost two teeth and has two more that are loose.  She loves to read (which is not a shocker, she has been "reading" since she was 18 months old.  She would sit and look at books for 45 min. all by herself when she was just 18 months old).  She loves school and would wear a dress or skirt everyday if I let her.  Her hair is getting so long, she always wants it in a ponytail, and she wants to donate it once it gets a little longer.  She is quite the dramatic little girl and knows how to start sobbing in 2 seconds flat and then stop again in the same time.  She is in ballet and loves going each week.  I love seeing her blossom into a little girl and to see her personality come out more and more.  I love you Bristol!

Fall Fun and Halloween

So get ready for picture overload.  Here is more of our October.  We went to Windmill Farms with Kali's preschool and went on our traditional Halloween tractor ride and got our pumpkins.  It is always so much fun, they have the hugest mud puddles that you go through and the kids love it.

See the huge mud puddle? 

Kali's preschool class.

I don't know how this got out of order, but here is another picture of the mud.

Pumpkin Carving

Once again I don't know how this got out of order, but here is Kali's finished pumpkin at night.

Bristol's pumpkin.  She drew the picture on the pumpkin of what she wanted and then Nate carved it out, with only minor changes.

Getting ready to trick or treat with the neighbors.  Here they have a scheduled time for trick or treating, 6-8pm.  So we leave before it is dark which is nice because it is also warmer.

Note the stem on top of Gwyn's head.  I have a knit hat for her that is a pumpkin hat, but unless it was really cold out she wouldn't leave it on her head.  I had a feeling this would be the case and so I whipped up a quick stem out of felt.  I just really wanted her to have a stem.