Some days are just like that

I love this picture of Tessa. Snow had fallen into her boot and she wasn't happy. But havent we all felt like this.

Another fancy lunch

Tessa had a friend over yesterday and after we read Fancy Nancy they decided they wanted to have a fancy lunch. Here they are!

Pre-Christmas

This year the kids got a pre-Christmas package with things like pajamas and Christmas books that they can use during the Christmas season. It was lots of fun.

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving with lots of family. I should have taken more pictures with everyone--but here are the few I managed to get. Bryce made the base for the pinata and Aunt Amy Beth and the kids decorated it. It looked great (probably because Amy Beth is an artist). We do have a lot to be grateful for and family tops the lists!

Holiday Outfits

Here are the kids in their new holiday outfits. Tessa picked out the material for the skirts and I made them. (She has such an interesting sense of style--I never would have thought she would go for the asian looking purple brocade with golden dragons.) I thought they turned out pretty cute.

Fancy Nancy Tea Party

So, Tessa and I have been wanting to do a Fancy Nancy Tea Party for a while. One of our friends came over yesterday to help us with a trial run. I was impressed with how "on task" Tessa stayed all morning helping to get things ready: cutting out sandwiches, taping flowers to straws and stick fancy toothpicks in everything. She came up with a lot of the ideas (like making cookie cutter chocolate chip cookies...which dont work very well, but she was happy). We had a fun time. She also picked out both of our "fancy" outfits.

Halloween!! (all 3 days of it)

We had a lot of Halloween fun around here. Above is Tessa at her preschool Halloween celebration. She did a great job singing all of the songs.

Then on Thursday Oakley had a Halloween party with some friends from school. We had a lot of fun playing games and having treats.

Friday was the Hallween parade at school. Our cousins and Oakley before the parade and Oakley during the parade.

Then the big day was finally here!

Oakley had his last soccer game in the morning.

Then we dressed up and went to the church party and trunk or treat. Tessa and Oakley won the best costumes and came home with a bucket full of Halloween pretzels and a prize. They were very excited.

Oakley was a pirate and Tessa was a Barbie 3 musketeer (a princess with a sword, as she called it). Hathaway had a costume but we never quite got it on her so she just celebrated with her Halloween shirt.

Finally we went trick or treating with the Cox family and some other friends. It was fun to see people from school out trick or treating too. There was plenty of candy to go around and all in all it was a great day.