Parties, dance and gymnastics...

What more could a girl ask for? They have been having so much fun lately and keeping me hopping! G and E had a winter recital this week-end. They just light up and preform so well up on that stage. They say they don't get nervous at all. That they just get excited. Ella also just finished another round of gymnastics with her BFF. Friday night Waterchase had the Holiday party. The girls got to see Santa, decorate cookies, make a craft and watch a movie. It was great to see a lot of our neighbors. D had her holiday party today. Monica brought all sorts of fun crafts for them to do. They had lots of fun playing in all the glitter! They cut out sandwiches with cookie cutters. 

SANTA FEST PARADE

Forget all about marching these girls are grooving all the way through the parade. They had so much fun and were real troopers with all of the walking they did. We had fun catching beads from the side lines! They also did a performance the night before at the closing ceremonies at kid city. Avery came to the parade with Abbie and Christie and couldn't make it across the parade path to get to us! Thanks Christie for watching Av! Avery is finally getting better after being sick with a week's worth of 103-105 degree fever. She has been up all night coughing for 4 nights! Finally, after what seems like a million breathing treatments,  she is sleeping peacefully!

MORE THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR

Beautiful sunsets and silly friends...

GOBBLE GOBBLE!!!

We are all ready for some yummy turkey! We are thankful for so many things. The kids and I compiled a list of all sorts of things! We are thankful for our health, house, each other, our jobs, our beds, cars, schools, teachers, friends, wii, hamsters, turkey heads, chloe, neighbors, babies, being outside, bikes, movies, books, food, candy, computer, birthdays, clothes, the love in our family, energy, non-running noses, thoughtful people, allergy medicine, baking, painting, cameras, pee pee on the potty, backpacks, lunch boxes, refrigerator, and a million other things! It is funny though how what they were thankful for was mainly the basics. Things that we do together as a family more so than things. I am blessed to have such a wonderful, happy and healthy family. I am counting my blessings this Thanksgiving more than ever before!

BROWNIES FIRST MEETINGS

Well, we have officially had our first few meetings for 12 girls for brownies. The girls are having a wonderful time and we are all learning a lot and having FUN doing it! We have such a SWEET group of girls. I just want to keep them all! They have learned the promise and law, about the founder, sewed a sit-upon it, and had their first ceremony. The investiture was so cute, we were twisting and turning and looking and found our brownie girls. So they are all "OFFICIALLY" brownies. This is bringing back a lot of MEMORIES for all of us moms! And hopefully creating some for the girls!

MY LITTLE GYMNAST

Our little Ella is so flexible! She is so great a gymnastics. She is such a natural at it. Already doing back walk-overs and just seems to be lovin life when out there on those mats! The whole entire hour and a half class, she never stops moving. Even when she is waiting for her turn she is doing cartwheels, round offs and hand stands. Bouncing from one thing to another. Her favorite is bars and trampoline. But I think she is strong in floor and beam. For now she loves it and gets to be in class with her best friend Abbie... so what could be better in the life of a 6 year old!

ONE HARD CHICK TO KEEP UP WITH

Avery is here, there and everywhere. You think she was in one bounce house and you blink and she was gone and over petting someone's puppy. Then over trying to bang the bell. What was that kids name in The Incredible's that could run so fast? That should be Avery's nick name!

FALL FESTIVAL

We had a great time bouncing, playing, chatting and eating with all of our neighbors at the Waterchase fall festival! Ella and Abbie got new hair do's! Avery LOVED the bouncey houses... which is a first time she would go into them! CRAZY trying to follow them all around and keep up with them with all the things to do!

Halloween Fun!

Wow!! What a night! The girls had so much fun! We started at a friends house for a spaghetti dinner. Yummy food and drinks, Thanks Maria! Ella was "missing" for a bit going out with another group of friends trick or treating. We found her and stopped by her teachers house , Mrs. Nagel, she is in the black shirt. We made it back to our house and officially STARTED trick or treating after everyone was almost FINISHED!

Greg made some carmel apple martini's... that we all loved. But he liked them a lot, wink wink. One of the families has a cotton candy machine that the kids loved! There were so many beautiful princess out that night! I think they got 5 lbs of candy! I tried to talk them into the fairy coming and leaving them money... they wanted NO part of that! They wanted to keep ALL of their candy. Delaney and Avery's spaghetti dinner was the next night. There were so many great dessert. My friend Michelle made a wonderful apple crisp!  The kids loved seeing there friends and the magician. 

CREATING ALL SORTS OF THINGS!!!

Special treats, crazy hair and crazy sock day, and fun laundry room. Greg finished the laundry room while I was gone in Phoenix. It is so nice to have a place to "hang their hat"! 

PUMPKIN CARVING

We went and picked daddy up at the airport grabbed some dinner and came home to carve us some pumpkins! Daddy actually bought a tool for this! He says we needed it for around the house! Hmmmm...  He got the tops off and G and E dove right in getting the insides out. D and A wanted nothing to do with it. It's the great Pumpkin Charlie Brown came on and there went Greg's helpers! They made there way back over and helped a little bit more. G's is the mummy, E's is the wolf, Daddy's and A's is the Trick or Treat, and D's is the ghost. One more funny thing, is E kept saying all night long over and over again M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I, just because she know knows how to spell it! She's a hoot! Pumpkin seeds tomorrow!

FINISHED PRODUCT

PHOENIX TRIP

Wow what a long week-end! N picked me up at the airport and we did dinner and already fit in some shopping.  We started by getting mani and pedi's. S hung out with us, she is the most amazing 2 year old ever! So easy going. We picked up D at school had a quick lunch, and went back for naps, me included! HA! Good thing I did. We had a wild night ahead of us. It started at Ra a sushi place, meet some great girls. P had called and said he was coming to pick us up. So of course that meant SAKE BOMBERS! I am to embarrassed to give all the details! You'll have to get those directly from me! P then drove us to the W hotel's sushi restaurant and then went to their roof top bar... you are instantly cool being in that place. I could live there! Friday we shopped until we dropped! It was so much fun! Saturday we went to a photography workshop. It was so much fun hanging out with N all day and 15 other women who all love photography. They did some photoshop too, so that is some fun stuff!   If I can get it straight in my head! And stop using i photo! Old habits die hard!   After we left at 8:30 at night we still fit in more shopping! See the adorable outfits below! Sunday was filled with photo shoots, mass, photo shoots and some editing. Needless to say I slept the whole way home! I had a blast, Thank you P and N!! kisses to the girls! I loved meeting all your friends too!

Grace's b-day party.

It was a toss up. The girls voted between costume party and going to the nick hotel for Grace's b-day. They voted for the the hotel. I was just as excited to spend some time with just Grace. We had an ice cream cake in the room and opened presents. The girls swam and swam, got slimed and then swam some more. After a very quick shower we grabbed a pizza, watched the dive in movie and then went to the nick jr. show. It was a jammed packed day! She asked for halloween thing for her b-day. She did get some cute things and came home and spent one afternoon decorating the outside of our house. She is just so cute!