Our Week in Pictures

During our Classical Conversations Class...We disected owl pellets. The girls absolutely LOVED it!

 

 Kate had a great check up at the dentist. No cavities and the discovery of two loose teeth! She's over the moon excited that she can start wiggling them.

 We had a nice Halloween morning at CBS, minus Emma who has been fighting a tummy ache off and on all week
 

 Imagine this: 10, 5 & 6 year olds, 10 tin whistles & 1 teacher trying to hold it all together :) At CC the girls are learning music theory. It's going to be a long "semester."

 One night the kids made their own dinner. They thought it was a blast and I actually felt like the pre- pregnancy me!

 We've been working on tying shoes! The girls are both just about masters of this new skill!

 We have been spending as much time outside as possible! It's sunny and 70 and beautiful with golden yellow leaves on most of the trees surrounding our house. Loving these fall days after a really, REALLY long summer.

 Leaf people were created

 & pumpkins were painted!

And we had a fabulous night trick-o-treating in a great neighborhood that was amazingly kid friendly. 

Happy Halloween

 From a bunch of crazies!

She's 5!

 5 years ago today {1 day early} we welcomed Emmaline Terese
She has had a mind of her own from the very start

 We look back and wonder where the last 1,825 days have gone...
She has been so fun to watch this last year
She is a pre-reader
She has made so many great friends
She misses our Michigan family but understands that we have a great life here
She still loves the color pink
Her favorite animals are the elephants

 Her favorite food is mac-n-cheese
She loves to swing and play Laura {Laura Ingalls Wilder}
She is completely confused about doing school at home :)
She is sassy and loving and argumentative
She keeps us laughing

Her smile lights up the rooms and her laughter is contagious
She had a great year #4!
We're looking forward to so, SO many more!!

It's a Party

The birthday girl!

The cake that Daddy made

Reed, our gluten-reduced boy did not let any cake go to waste!

Catching butterflies

This is the first "friends" party that we have EVER had! And we surely kept it simple but the birthday girl {almost... in 10 days she'll be 5!} thought it was great!! She wanted a princess party so we asked the girls to come in a dress/play dress. We made crowns, played in the pool, ate cake and just had a fun few hours.
We requested no gifts, just their time and it was a lovely way to set the "rules" of birthday parties in our house.

The party go-ers: Kate, Emma, Mac & Halla

Wordless Wednesday {3 years ago}

Wordless Wednesday: hoola style

She Makes Me Laugh!

And somedays I really need that!

This is Only a Test!

Oh man, I love this girl!