Halloween Parade

As usual, we had a great time at the Halloween Parade. Here the girls are hamming it up with some of their friends. We always meet a group of our friends from the girls old pre-school for the parade.

Beth and a bouncy Bella.

Bella and Brie having a good time. We had to be very careful with Bella. Putting her down to stretch her legs usually meant one of us chasing her down the street.

The girls getting their glow necklaces and bracelets that I brought for them ready prior to the parade.

Bella and "Bo" as she calls him.

Brittney - eating candy of course!

Brie - always happy to pose for a pic!

Pumpkin Farm 2009

We found a new pumpkin farm this year that just opened the beginning of October. Rhodes Family Farm in Worden. It was very nice, and kind of felt like a secret. $5.00 per person to get in, but all of the festivities they have are included in that price...no tickets and such to mess with!
The girls (and Papa) enjoy the maze.

Here they are on top of giant hay bales.

Duck Races with old fashioned water pumps.

Giant Tire Swings

One very fun giant slide! We spent quite a bit of time here.

Brittney is a great helper with Bella.

Look at the exciteement on their faces!

Brie and Bells running back up the hill to get to the top again.

Bella wanted to "do it self" something we are becoming quite familiar with right now!

They also had a very fun zip line - the big girls loved it!!

They also had animals....chickens, which liked to fly out of their coop.

Goats, here Bella is telling the goat to "Stop it!", it was trying to eat her coat and she was not amused!

Feeding the 3 little pigs...

The Barrel Ride...

Again, Bella wanted to "do it self," against her Mommy's better judgement.

Getting the girls to pose for pictures is not amusing, and our patience was pretty shot by this point in the day. Somehow we snapped a pretty decent picture of them though. My girls thought a better use of their time was chasing after the dirty farm cats that were running around. Unfortunately it started to rain before we could take the hay ride out to the pumpkin fields. Good thing we had stocked up on the great $1.99 pumpkins that Aldi was selling a couple of weekends before!

Happy Fall!!

The Sweetest Cupcakes I Ever Made...

My Mom, sister, and I have been busy whipping up these giant cupcakes, and they couldn't be any sweeter!

Brittney and Brie goofing off...we were out at my Grandpa and Uncle's farm last weekend for their annual fall farvest, and took advantage of the pretty fall evening to snap a few pictures in my Grandpa's yard.

Sweet Belly baby...

The girls were quite moody and uncooperative about the pics, I'm surprised we snapped any keepers!

Trick or Treating in our neighborhood.

We found some of our friends along the way...

We won 2nd place in the group competition of the Lions Club Costume Contest at City Park.

A little update...

Here are the girls on a recent trip to the zoo.

I just finished my second round of cake decorating classes. Here is my cake for the final.

Here is Brittney singing I Believe in church yesterday.

Both girls are loving school and have great teachers. Brie started first grade and has Mrs. Jones and Brit started a new school for third grade and has Ms. Young (yes, Will's mom).

Sorry it has been a while. I'm not lovin Blogger right now!!

What We've Been Up To...

The girls have been playing ball. Brie plays t-ball and Brit started coach pitch this year.











Brie doesn't have much of an attention span and can often be found playing in the dirt, doing jumping jacks on the bases, and doing various dance kicks and turns while she waits for some action. She is such a funny girl!

Brittney seems to really enjoy the coach pitch league over t-ball. The nearly 8 going on 28 year old would not be caught dead acting so silly at her games! Brit is really catching on to the game this year - boy to a couple of years make a difference!

We always have quite a cheering section! Cousins Bella and Lucas are getting in on the action!

I have been taking a cake decorating class as Michael's - very fun! This is something I have always wanted to do - Brian and Katie got me a gift certificate to take the classes for my birthday. I still need to practice, but in my class I learned how to make roses, sweet peas, bows, 4 different edges, leaves, vines, filling in with stars, and how to copy a design to my cakes. Here is the cake I made for my final tonight...

I appologize the post looks crazy tonight - blogger is acting weird and seperating my pictures from the text - even though it looks fine on my edit? Grrr!