B's Thanksgiving Feast

Braelyn's class had a feast in their classroom to kickoff the Thanksgiving holidays.  They were all so cute in their pilgrim and Indian costumes they had made.  As soon as her feast was over, I checked both girls out so we could finish getting everything together to head to Grandma and Papa's!

The kids love listening to stories so Mrs. Tworek read them a Thanksgiving book while the parents set up the feast.

Cutest little Indian I've ever seen!

Of course, Miss B has to include a picture of the cross!

Lemonade for Sale!

Emerson has been dying to have a lemonade stand for over a year.  She and Braelyn have had posters made and waiting for the day that I gave them the go ahead.  I finally picked a day and after I picked them up from school we made our lemonade and loaded up the wagon with everything to make a perfect lemonade stand.  I checked with the family at the end of our street to see if we could set up on the corner, as I didn't think the back of the cul-de-sac was our best bet for getting a lot of traffic.  Before we could even get set up, people were stopping to buy!  We were only out for less than an hour since it started getting dark but Emerson made $16!  She paid her sister a few dollars for helping too!

How could anybody pass up these cuties??!!

Bender's Beach

People have told us ever since we moved into the Bender's Landing Estates neighborhood that there was an amazing beach in the neighborhood along Spring Creek.  We thought they were exaggerating and that there was no way there could be a beach.  Well, we went for the first time today and couldn't believe what we saw...beautiful white sand!  The girls had so much fun playing in it with Braelyn's friend Caylee.  Her parents said that it looked worse now than it has in the past because of the flooding during Harvey.  There are so many trees down that are still being cleared but we were amazed by the sand and have no idea how it got there!

Happy Birthday Ellie!

Braelyn's American Girl doll Ellie celebrated a birthday today!  Any birthday has to have cake and balloon's and Ellie's was no different!  I love seeing the smiles on these sweet girls' faces when we have fun days like this!

I had the party set up to surprise them when they got home from school.

Braelyn was SO excited!

Grase and Em were happy to celebrate with the birthday girl too!

Yummy cupcakes!

Happy Halloween!

The girls were so excited about trick-or-treating this year, especially because Gransan was here to join us.  It was definitely NOT the most ideal trick-or-treating weather...it poured down rain!  Daddy drove us from house to house but me, Gransan, and the girls were absolutely soaked from just walking to and from the truck.  It did not ruin anything as far as the girls were concerned!  Their smiles were still huge and the giggles were still coming!

All decked out in their Halloween outfits for school.

Mal of course had to have purple in her hair and...

Evie had to have blue!  Daddy wasn't too happy with either after they had been in the rain and got in his truck.  It smelled terrible!

Thanks for being a trooper with us Gransan!

Daddy was a trooper too...trick-or-treating fell right during a big Astros game!

Sorting their loot

And eating plenty too!

Pumpkin Carvin' Time

Fall Fun 2017

Keeping with tradition, we hosted a fall fun playdate before Halloween.  It seems to grow every year and this year was definitely more of an undertaking!  More kids, more activities, more fun!  We decorated masks, played games outside, and enjoyed some yummy snacks.  It had been my original plan to keep everything outside but unfortunately it rained most of the day so I had to move the tables inside.  Surprisingly the house was not in too bad of shape!

Fun little witch hat cupcakes  

The Brooks and Collins kiddos couldn't wait for everybody else to get there to start on their masks!

Glue and glitter paint markers paired with cupcakes with this many little ones...what was I thinking??!!  They actually did great!

Braelyn and Sophia

The ring toss game was pretty challenging!

Emerson, Sofia, Alexander, and Camilla

Emmeline, Annabelle, Sofia, Alexander, Camilla, and Em

Alexander really enjoyed his cupcake!

Sofia modeling her mask with her load of sugar!

B couldn't quite manage to watch the Astros game after because she was so worn out from the fun!