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.

Starting to Eat

1st Day of Halloween Week

Tonight we started getting ready for the week of Halloween. We carved pumpkins and made home-made doughnuts. We all had lots of fun and the kids did a great job creating the faces for the pumpkins. It is such a fun holiday.

Random Sampler

Oakley told me that this was the best day ever because he played great in his soccer game and we had ham for dinner (if life were always this easy). He really did have a great game and was just glowing when he told me the coach asked him what he had eaten for breakfast because he had the game of his life. I guess we will always have to have crepes on game day.

Tessa told me her two favorite things to do were to swing on swings and to read books in bed with me (because it is so cozy).

Hathaway didn't scream for the first time when I put real food in her mouth and her first bottom tooth broke through.

The Girls

Tessa got a new dress, so we took a picture of all the girls. Here we are.

A fun trip to Portland

Hathaway and I decided we needed a little get away, so we went to visit some friends in Portland, OR. First we went to see the Schwins just outside of Eugene. Kristin has been a friend since kindergarten and she has a daughter, Kaitlyn, who is 2 weeks older then Hathaway. We are sure they are destined to be friends too.

Then we went to see Laura and Colby just outside of Portland. I have known Colby since kindergarten too and was roommates with Laura in college. It was great to see them and their family. They really pampered me.

We had a great, relaxing trip and Hathaway was a great little traveler. Yay for fun trips!