Halloween is for the kids

I thought I had it made this year, no costumes to buy. You may recognize Camryn's princess dress from her birthday party. When I asked her if she wanted to be a princess, she enthusiastically agreed. Why not use this nice dress we just bought? For Kendra, I thought I could use the costume Camryn wore at her age. It is an adorable white tiger costume. So I thought I had it made.

On Monday, I get out the tiger costume for Kendra to try on. It fit and she looked adorable. I was excited! Of course, Camryn wanted to try on her costume too. So we get out Camryn's costume. As soon as Kendra saw her she pulls at her own costume and says, "off, be princess." When I did not respond, "off, mommy, off. Princess!"

I stewed over this for a couple days. I could just make her wear it. I wanted Halloween to be fun for her, so what do I do? It is now 2 days before Halloween and costumes are slim picking. But Camryn's dress was a dress-up outfit, and guess what, still fully stocked at Target.

So here is Kendra, in her matching princess dress.

They had their Halloween party at daycare today. My girls loved being princesses.

Here is Camryn, with her good friend Mailei at their school party. The kids went out front and waved at passing cars. Lots of cars were honking. They were all so proud of their costumes. It was so cute!

Kendra makes such a cute princess, look at that wave!

Going to the school party, I got to observe my girls. The children were told to go sit on the blue rug and watch cartoons while individual pictures were taken. Camryn goes right to the front and finds her friends. Kendra goes to the very back and sits against the wall. Then, when they go outside, Kendra stays to the back while the rest of the children inch forward. Is this something I should be worried about? I was a shy girl too, and may have acted in the same way, but I can't help but be a bit troubled. Am I not providing her with the confidence she needs? Any suggestions?

Pumpkin Carving

We went and picked out pumpkins today. I was considering painting them this year, but Camryn had been asking to get pumpkins and make faces and put lights inside. So pumpkin carving we did.


Camryn and Kendra helped as much as they could.

Camryn said she wanted to make a scary face.

THE END RESULT!

They are pretty proud of their pumpkins!

What We've Been Doing Lately

Ross Park

We went to Ross Park with Nicole and Kaydence. Nicole and I pushed the girls around for a bit, then we all played.

My beautiful sister, Nicole and her little Kaydence

Our girls love each other so much and play together so well. Which makes us pretty lucky, because we get to spend time together too =)

Horses

There are some horses in pastures that border my mom and dad's backyard. Camryn loves to go out and try to pet and feed the horses. I would say horses are Camryn's favorite animal right now.

Nicole and Kaydence came out to see the horses too. Kaydence didn't seem to understand what all the fuss was about.


Kendra was more interested in being held than seeing the horses too.

Happy Birthday Mom!

We celebrated Mom's birthday. Another year older, but still so young-looking and beautiful. I hope I age as well as she does.

Thanks mom, for all you do for us. You are the best!

Birthday Girls!!!

Our birthdays are two days apart, so we celebrated them together this year.

Kendra turned two!!! My baby is two!!!

We had a family party at mom and dad's house. We started with grilled shish-kabobs, then went on to open presents.

Kendra got a baby doll with a stroller and diaper bag. She also got two dress-up outfits. One tinkerbell dress and one Aurora dress. She loved all her presents!


Kaydence loved Kendra's new baby doll too! It's a good thing her birthday is coming up as well =)
Kendra put on her tinkerbell dress and pushed that stroller all around the house. It was tough work chasing her around to try to get a picture of it.

My parents got me a sweet, sweet card and a much needed suitcase. It is super nice!







Nicole and Travis got me a binder full of family home evening lessons, with treat ideas and everything. Ahh...thanks for simplifying things for me. Now we don't have any excuses to skip FHE. Thanks so much guys!

Then came the cake. Chocolatey chocolate cake. Need we say more.

After Party Fun!!!

We have some clowns in our family. Jonathan is showing off some underwear... on his head. He even got my mom to try them on.

Camryn put on her Cinderella dress that she got at her birthday party. The two little princesses roasted marshmallows out back with Grandpa.

Then Kendra changed into her Aurora dress and the goofy girls played inside.

What a fun birthday we had!!!