Halloween!

We had a lot of fun this Halloween season. Lil miss is obsessed with Tinkerbell and her friends, so she asked to be Tinkerbell. The little guy had been walking around the house with my sleep mask on calling himself Batman, so I decided to make him a Batman costume. Luckily his cousin and best bud was also a superhero. They palled around the whole night and insisted on holding hands while they went trick-or-treating. It was the cutest thing ever. Of course the kids got lots of treats. It was so cute to see their excitement this year.

-Liz

Mommy Time

Don't tell her I posted this. Cuties.
-S

Summer Pics

In order to play catch up, here are some of the photos from this summer...

-S

Summer Squares

Bug Friends

Her teacher gave her a bug collecting container and now she has this obsession with bugs, especially the rollie-pollies.

-STEEEV

Quick Pic 7-2-11

This is a view from the wash in our backyard. This cluster of so many different trees grabbed my attention. I like seeing a variety of the same color all bunched together.
-STEEEV

Swimming

Our little girl began taking swimming lessons. It was awesome having the kids go down for bed...and actually fall right to sleep. She enjoyed it so immensely that she wanted to join the community swim team.

This mprning she had her first swim meet! She swam the whole distance of the pool. We were so proud, to say the least.

Here's how it went down.

At 7:30am they did a quick swimming warm up.



They wrote the heat number (22nd race!)



The team did a loud cheer that weirded her out a little bit. I think it caught her by surprise, haha.



After that it was a long 2 hour wait for her race. She was still a little wet and her feet were so cold.



Sweet heart.



She put her clothes back on and played with her brother until they called her name to get ready.


Then she waited some more.





And off she went. Here are some stills from the video we took.







As soon as she finished she asked for a donut, so we went to a nearby donut shop and she picked the biggest one they had.
-S

Visiting

It is always a treat to visit my folks where I grew up. The summer heat called for watermelon and ice cream. I can't even remember the last time I had ice cream from an ice cream truck. The kids were so excited!
-STEEEV