More Halloween

Emerson & Sophie

Superman (Brown) and Sophie

Miss Abbie

Here's a couple of shots of Sophie with some friends. The first little girl is one of our neighbors. Emerson and Sophie are the same age. We walked down to Publix with them and did some treat or treating on Halloween night. The girls had fun hanging out. We did a little trick or treating in our neighborhood as well but Abbie was getting tired so my sister, Martha, and I decided to take Abbie back to the house. The plan was for Sophie and Matt to finish trick or treating in our neighborhood. Well, Matt and Sophie were back just a couple of minutes after us. It turned out that Sophie spotted kids headed towards our house and she wanted to pass out the candy. It was really cute because she just wanted to stand on the porch with our bowl of candy and wait for the kids to come. However, her "Mean old Mama"-just kidding (she didn't say that either), kept asking her to come inside when there weren't any kids because it was pretty cold.
Sophie and Brown (Superman) are friends from church and from preschool. Maybe next year I'll do better at getting more pictures. Kids are always on the move so it's hard sometimes. Hope you had a great Halloween! Ours was fun!

Halloween Fun

Sophie as Cinderella

Sophie's preschool class with Grumpy

our family before we went out trick or treating

Last week, we were busy with several events centered around Halloween. First, on Tuesday, Sophie wore her costume for ballet class. At the end of the class, all of the parents were invited to watch the children participate in a costume parade and then sing and dance along with a couple of Halloween songs. (I would like to try to post a video from that.) Then, on Wednesday night, we went to Trunk or Treat at church. Both of the girls had fun but they were so busy and there were so many people that I only took a couple of pictures. They got lots of candy! Abbie dressed up as Abby Cadabby that night. On Friday, it was time to celebrate Halloween with Sophie's preschool class. It was a lot of fun! They had pizza and exchanged treat bags. Also, the kids did a little bit of trick or treating right around the church. So, by Saturday night, we already had a good bit of candy but since the weather cooperated, we took the girls to do a little bit of trick or treating on Halloween night. Abbie dressed up as Snow White that night. Nana, Paw-paw, and Aunt Martha came over and had dinner with us so they were able to see the girls dressed up. They also helped pass out our candy while we took the girls trick or treating which was nice.

Cinderella's Royal Table

Snow White and Cinderella (AKA Abbie & Sophie)

Abbie's ready to meet the princesses

our whole gang before breakfast

our family with Cinderella

One of the biggest highlights of our trip was eating breakfast with the princesses at Cinderella's Royal Table! Matt had made reservations for us well in advance and it was definitely a very special time, especially for Sophie. When you attend this meal, you actually eat upstairs in Cinderella's castle and have a beautiful view of the park. Before you go upstairs to eat, you get to meet Cinderella and get professional pictures made with her that you can keep. Once you go upstairs to eat, the other main princesses start coming around.

Our Disney Vacation-Part 1

our family on the 1st day before going into Magic Kingdom

us with Matt's family

Cinderella's castle

can you see how excited Sophie was?

We headed to Disney World on Friday, October 2nd. We've been planning this trip for the last year so we had all been anticipating it for some time. My parents, my sister (Martha), and brother (Phil), all flew with us to Orlando. Matt's parents and sister, Leia, also came in from Virginia for the trip. It was nice flying with several other family members that could help entertain restless little girls. We stayed in the Pop Century Resort which is one of Disney's more reasonable resorts. It wasn't anything fancy or anything but they had some swimming pools, a big food court and gift shop at a resort. It was also nice for shuttles to come and pick you up and take you right to the park.

Saturday was our first day to head to the park and I told Matt that we had to do Magic Kingdom the first day because I knew the girls (especially Sophie) would just love it! All of us met up with Matt's family that morning and headed into the park to ride some of my favorite rides-Dumbo, It's a Small World, Peter Pan, etc. Sophie loved most of the rides but Abbie didn't like the rides that were very dark inside so the grandparents took turns walking her around.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Anna Kate, Mary Frances, Sophie & Ellie had fun playing together.

After everyone left, Sophie took the mike and had a blast performing her original songs.

our family

Sophie's Cinderella cake

We had a birthday party for Sophie with some of her friends and family about a week after her birthday. We had planned to have it at a park with a picnic shelter but it was a rainy weekend. Our plan B was to have the party at our church in the Family Life Center (gym) and borrow a friend's small jump castle. So, that's what we did. Everything worked out fine. The girls who came had a good time jumping in the jump castle, playing Hullabaloo and some old-fashioned games such as Duck, Duck Goose, Hide & Seek, and Red Light, Green Light. We all enjoyed cake and ice cream and Sophie opened her gifts. After the party was over, Sophie discovered a microphone and started singing. If I had known that it was going to be there, we could have made the girls singing part of our entertainment. =) Sophie was really excited that some of her cousins, friends and other family could be there!