Happy Halloween!

We had a great time tonight on Halloween. Tonight, we went to Christy's house, as we traditionally do, and went trick-or-treating in her neighborhood. This year, Sarah dressed up as Princess Jasmine, Grace was Princess of the Rainbow from the Fairytopia movie, and Mia was Tigger. The girls had a great time running from house to house, collecting various kinds of junk food. Even Mia got into it and stayed with the group. At the end of the night, all three were completely exhausted, but very happy with another successful Halloween.

Halloween, Kindergarten Style

Traditionally, Van Buren does not celebrate Halloween at school. Instead, the kindergarten teachers have the students dress up as a character from a book they did a book report on. The book Gracie chose was The Very Hungry Caterpillar, so she dressed up like a butterfly, and Sarah dressed up as a cat to go with her story Millions of Cats. Both girls' costumes were homemade. Grace painted her own butterfly wings on a sheet of poster board, and Sarah painted her cat tail and ears. The girls were very proud of their costumes and had a lot of fun on Halloween at school.

Birthday Celebration #3 & Happy Birthday, GJ!

Tonight, we had a dual birthday celebration for Mia and GJ. All of the family came over for this glorious occasion - celebrating 2 years of life for Mia, and 68 years of life for GJ. Check out how bright GJ's side of the cake is!

Happy Birthday, Mia! AKA Birthday Celebration #2

Today is Mia's second birthday! These past two years have flown by at lightning speed. Our little baby is not such a little baby anymore. Her personality is shining through, and we are thoroughly enjoying our time with her.
Normally, on the girls' birthdays, we like to go out to dinner or somewhere fun, like Chuck E. Cheese, for the evening. Unfortunately, Gracie got really sick with the flu yesterday, so we were homebound. We ended up getting an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins, and had a nice, quiet birthday celebration at home. Happy birthday, Mia!

Birthday Celebration #1

Last night, we went over to Grandma Sue's house for a 2nd birthday celebration for Mia. Although Mia had no idea what was going on, she had fun!

More Pumpkin Patches!

Today we went to the pumpkin patch with Jake and his mom Christy at Irvine Park. Christy and I are both freaks about getting good pictures for scrapbooking, and today was no different. Snap, snap, snap went the camera, as we aimed for the best photo for that perfect layout. We got some pretty good ones!

Pumpkin Patch

Today we went to the pumpkin patch and petting zoo at Tanaka Farms in Irvine for McKenna's second birthday party. The weather was not good; we weren't even sure if we were going because it had been raining that morning. Luckily, Mother Nature was on our side and the rain subsided for a while. The girls had a great time! They ran around the pumpkin patch, playing with the pumpkins, went through the corn maze, picked vegetables out of a vege garden, went to the petting zoo, had pizza and cake. I was, of course, a freak with my camera, trying to snap that perfect picture. Oh, the joys of being a scrapbooker!

Dimples

Look at those dimples!