Snow!!

Winter Smiles

Carli had her school program on Friday. She had stage fright. She mostly played with her construction paper mittens and spent a lot of time watching the people behind her sing. :)) I'm not even going to post pics of the event because her hair had fallen out of her hair clips and was just hanging in her face. Why couldn't her teachers clip it back?

(I really cannot figure out this camera. The settings are all messed up and I haven't had a chance to sit down and play around with it, so excuse the poor quality shots. I better figure it out before Christmas.)

We went to Village Pointe for the Christmas tree lighting, complete with Santa's parade. They had a marching band and Santa delivered in a horse-drawn Cinderella carriage. Before the parade and lighting, the girls got to dance to The String Beans, a HUGE hit. Again, sad, sad shots with this camera.

How cute would this have been? Oh, this camera!

Carli's First School Picture

Isn't this just the cutest picture ever? Oh, she's so adorable!Carli was VERY excited to show AnLi her picture, so as soon as AnLi got in the car after preschool, Carli yelled, "Ook, A-ee!" And AnLi in some high-pitched voice, "Oh, that's soooo cute, Carli! That's the cutest picture EVER!" Took the words right out of my mouth. :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

School Days

AnLi got her school pictures back. She smiled so good! (My scanner REALLY stinks, so sorry for the poor quality.) I can't believe how much she has changed. Where's my little baby?

2008

2007

2006

A cute story - Yesterday AnLi had a field trip to the pet store. They toured the store, saw and petted lots of animals, talked about what animals need, etc. At the end they got to actually go into a surgical room where a dog was getting stiches on her leg. I didn't go in because I was sure that was something I couldn't stomach, but AnLi marched right in there about four or five times, explaining it to me in great detail every time she'd emerge from the surgical room - "There's thread and a needle and the doctor goes snip, snip with scissors," on and on.

So on the way home I asked her what her favorite part of the field trip was. She said, "When the dog was getting scratches." I said, "What dog was getting scratches?" AnLi, "You know, when the dog was getting itches." And then she goes on to explain the needle and thread and snip, snip all over again. Stiches sounds like itches which means scratches to a 4-year-old. (HA HA HA!)

Happy Halloween!

Carving Pumpkins on Halloween EveNot sure what's going on, but is sure she doesn't want to touch it!

AnLi telling Daddy that the face is too scary and will scare the trick or treaters away. He needs to make it "happy"

Before school, admiring their new "happy face" pumpkin

Daddy came home from work with a scary mask and crazy voice-changing microphone, but the girls weren't scared at all! He chased them around with his dust-buster. They kept saying, "Oh, Monster, come get us," and then they'd take off running and screaming.

Ready to go hit the neighbors up for candy

Crowding the door, looking for their loot

One neighbor always has a haunted house. The girls did not want to go inside, but loved the talking skelton driving the Jeep around the driveway

AnLi, Kiya, Avery and Carli

I think everyone's tired of pictures. :)

The girls had a great Halloween. Carli had her school party in the a.m. AnLi had her first real field trip, complete with a bus ride and sack lunch. They spent the majority of the day at the Children's Museum. They ate way too much candy and stayed up way too late. Carli slept until 10:30a on Saturday, AnLi until noon!

Fall Fun

Carli practicing her t-ball skillsCarli's cheerleader replacing the ball for her

I DID it!

AnLi has an infatuation with these statues at the park. She always sits to "chat" with them, asking them why they're frozen, et cetera, but this time she gave them a hug, saying, "I'm sorry I can't unfreeze you. I forgot my magic wand at home." LOL!

THE PUMPKIN PATCH

Carli loved playing on/around this train

After the pony ride, AnLi to the horse: "Thanks for the ride, Peanut. Oh, I LOVE your hair!"

Thanks for the Halloween packages, Beth, Greg & Steven and Nana & Papa

The girls loved everthing! Thank you so much!

Halloween party at the gym

AnLi, Carli and Jack waiting for Sydney to climb the rock wall