A Picture Update

Happy November! The first quarter of the school year is done. I can’t believe it. 

It is also Friday of Halloween week and our house is a disaster and our children are exhausted. I’m glad it is the weekend...

Let’s see, my school picture came back and it looks like I had Botox...or some free photoshop. My forehead has never been so smooth and shiny!

We had the last swimming lesson of the session on Tuesday (thank goodness) and Maya’s teacher posted a cute picture of her at her table.

Then...HALLOWEEN. The girls each had Halloween parties at school, and Callie was able to go help with Maya’s class. I went to school as a nerdy NASA scientist. 

After a quick dinner we met Auntie Yoda, Uncle Craigles and Lucy for trunk-or-treat at church. Lucy was a riot. 

For some video clips, click 

here!

Then we went back to our house to hit up some houses in our neighborhood. The girls got pretty full buckets!

On Thursday I got to walk Iris in the bright sunshine and later the girls started trading Halloween candy. Ironically, the hottest commodity were the vampire fangs.

Tonight we met Boom for dinner. Maya started out pretty hangry, but once she got some good in her she got much more pleasant. Also, Callie got me an ice cream cone shaped just like an elephant. Don’t you think? 

Have a great weekend!

Happy Halloween!

We have a gaggle if superheroes this year! And Wonder Woman, Super Girl, and Wonder Dog are hard to photograph.

It’s always fun to look back on Halloween through the years, all the way back to 2009.

Don’t eat too much candy!🎃🍬

Timehop Tuesday

Up first: kindergarteners at work!

Then, Maya and Lucy!

And play time with Auntie Cat is always fun!

Weekend Wrap-Up

Hello! We had a fun and busy weekend before Halloween. 

Yesterday was definitely WAY Haloween-y. The girls and I ran around and did various Halloween errands in the morning.

And then it was costume day at dance class.

After dance we headed to Uncle Dan and Auntie Hanna’s for some Halloween fun with G-ma, Pa, Becca, Bronco, and Violet!

The girls had fun messing around with the skeleton- making him look like he has to pee and dabbing with him.

And then G-ma and Pa took the girls for a sleepover. And Callie wore G-ma’s fuzzy giraffe costume.

Chris and I went back to Dan and Hanna’s for an adult Halloween party. Chris and I went as #filter/#nofilter.

If you don’t get it, remember how we sometimes take funny Snapchat pictures? They are called filters. This was the filter I was going for:

Anyway, the party had fun people and awesome food and decorations, and both Gosselin twins wore full heads of  hair the whole evening.

This morning we went to G-ma and Pa’s for a family taco salad bar and play time.

We are working on having Luna get along with Shambles and they had some good playtime together this weekend (and some not so good time but Luna is still learning). Here are some videos! Click 

here!

After a nice quiet time at home, we headed to the park to enjoy the fall weather. In vests.

We ended the weekend with dinner out at Panera where we played the “What do you like best?” game which always gets some interesting questions and interesting answers.

I’ll leave you with a Callie QOTD. While playing Apples to Apples, it was my turn and the card I got was the word FRAZZLED. I read the words on the card, and Callie said, “Mom, you basically just described yourself.” And then she ended up winning the freaking round because she put the card TEACHERS down for it. Sometime kids are too dang smart. And hilarious.

Have a happy Halloween week! 🎃

A Picture Update

Happy Friday!

The girls had Monday off so they got to hang out with Boom, Iris and Lucy! They also got to see my mom’s cousin Paula.

On Tuesday G-ma took the girls to Lund’s for their annual Halloween party. I met them there and tried to get a good picture...but it didn’t really work.

Wednesday was a nice fall day.

Maya likes clean. As in, she refused to put her hand in the pumpkin at school yesterday (but let her teacher take a picture of her WITH said pumpkin. And tonight she had fun cleaning the sink with the sprayer.

G-ma helped out in Maya’s class this afternoon for stations!

I’ll leave you with some videos from the week, and I must confess that Hamilton makes a big appearance in many clips. I just can’t help it and I love that they like singing the music. Click here to check in out!

Timehop Tuesday

Ok I have a lot of cute ones today, starting with the girls as kindergarteners. I feel like they look so different!

And now, a bunch of fun random ones.

Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday! If you missed my San Diego megapost, click here.

Thankfully the girls slept in this morning. I think it helped that Callie set her clock to California time last night, since she wants to live there now...

We had a bunch of overripe bananas so the girls and I made banana bread and banana muffins this morning. It made our house smell good all day!

We got thrown back into fall and had to rake up all our pretty tree’s leaves. Callie lasted about 3 minutes before getting bored and riding her bike.

Then we went on an awesome fall walk with G-ma, Pa, Auntie Hanna and Shambles. Luna did such a good job not being too psycho and she had so much fun.

Then we had snuggle time before bed because 2 of us were tired and 2 of us weren’t but laid down for 20 seconds before being more crazy.

And I’ll leave you with Callie’s fortune she got tonight.

She was mad because that wasn’t a fortune- she already does that!