Happy Halloween!!

Ariel and Sleeping Beauty...in backwards order of our day...

Ariel's hair was a little wild from the start...and it got more and more wild as the day went on!

But she was SO proud and LOVED her complete costume!

And our sweet Sleeping Beauty. The prince (AKA daddy) had to give LOTS of kisses today!

The girls and Fletcher at Grandma and Grandpa's!

Our attempt at a picture of them together!

Thanks for trying Iz!!!

And my sweet, sweet Gram, my mom, my girls and I. Talk about being amazed at the girls beauty!! Gram didn't know what to think of these two today!!! Fun, fun day with our princesses!!!

michigan fun!

We had another fun weekend in Michigan with my parents and Doug and Britt. We went on a FUN hay ride (even though it looks like the girls were having a MISERABLE time!!)

and the girls helped Papa with ALL the leaves!!!

school day

I took a few pictures of the girls before school recently. They are getting so big, and I want to remember their little personalities. These pictures captured them PERFECTLY!!!!

Grace...

VERY stubborn

until
she HAS to give in!

And Isabel...
our ALWAYS very

FANCY girl!!!

San Fran

Last weekend, Greg and I made a trip back to San Francisco. It was SO much fun to go back!!

We saw lots of sights...and had so much fun being tourists!

We met up with some great friends! (and didn't get any pictures with them!)
Ate at In N Out a few times!!! (A MUST for Greg!)

and did lots of walking and enjoyed every minute alone together!

wine country

While we were out west, we also were lucky enough to head up to wine country to go to an amazing Halloween party at a winery. The party was at an amazing winery, and very fun!!

There were amazing costumes, ours not being very amazing, but it was fun to dress up!

a VERY fun ending to an AWESOME weekend!!!

prayer...lead by Isabel

This was a recent before dinner prayer...something I have to remember!

(speaking...)
See and saw, see and saw.

(singing...)
hi hi how do you do, welcome to my gym
we're here for fun, songs and games
now its time to begin...clap you hands! again (and we repeated)

(speaking...)
welcome to my gym.
introducing the mickey mouse clubhouse singers!
praying hands on!
god is great. god is good. let us thank him for our food. amen.

(short pause...)

no more monkeys jumping on the bed!!!

a whole lot of nothing!

That's what our weekend was! We are always running, running, running on the weekends it seems. This weekend though, we had NO plans at all, and we enjoyed every minute of it, of doing nothing at all! We enjoyed the BEAUTIFUL weather, watched lots of football, and did lots of playing with our toys!!

Isabel

Cheers!!!
Hope you had a good weekend too!!!

the grove

Last weekend we went to the Grove with Grandma and Grandpa. It was a fun time and a great fall day. Here we are on hay ride #1 of the season which the girls LOVED!

Isabel...so proud of the sand art butterfly she made!
and Grace, just enjoying the music.

lets play some ball!

We also went to some friends for dinner and had a great time! Thanks Steff, John and Jack!

Jack had a really cool tee ball set.

Here, Grace, Isabel and Teddy are trying to figure out how to work it as Jack just watches on.

Grace did a great job hitting and asked us for one when we left.

Isabel...our sweet Isabel. Here she is...
hitting with her heart and soul...

and her silver dancing shoes.

sweet ella

This weekend we celebrated Ella's first birthday with our family. SO hard to believe this cute girl is already one!! She is beyond sweet, funny and a true joy to be around!

Happy birthday sweet girl!

pumpkin patch!

This weekend we headed out to a pumpkin patch.

We had hay ride #2, and again the girls loved every minute of it.

They rode the ponies...

did lots of jumping...

Isabel (black bow), Grace (white bow)

preview

We got our costumes this weekend...

And here the girls are trying each others on...

Grace as Ariel!

and Isabel as sleeping beauty
(and notice she is going with the sleeveless look even though it does have arms)

zoo time

We went to the zoo after the fun run last weekend. Doug, Britt, and some friends came up for the weekend, so we met them, and had a fun time!! Just a few funny pictures of the girls...

Grace...LOVE the fingers in the ears!

LOVE ALL their sweet smiles!

Sweet Isabel.

the girls.

After the zoo, we went to see Matthew, Kimmy, Daniella, and Adrianna.

And we actually got an okay picture of all the girls together!!

Two of them smiling!!

Pretty good I think.