Memories at Disney World Day 1

Our first picture at the Magic Kingdom

Abbie met Daisy, then she was scared to meet other furry characters.

Sophie and Minnie

The Tea Cup ride

Sophie's favorite ride: The Hall of Presidents

Breakfast with Santa part 2

Abbie and Sophie with Santa.

Abbie, Morgan, and Sophie with Santa.

Sophie and Abbie by the Christmas tree.

We had a fun weekend visiting with Santa, spending time with friends from church on Friday, Mimi and Paw-paw Tom came in on Saturday to visit for a few days, and Sophie had her last soccer game that afternoon.  Several family members were able to see her play.

Breakfast with Santa- Part 1

Abbie, Sophie, and Morgan

Abbie did great with the wooden Santa but how about the real one?

Enjoying a tasty breakfast before visiting with Santa.

We were able to go to Crieve Hall's Breakfast with Santa this past Saturday for our 2nd year in a row.  Breakfast with Santa you ask???  Are you crazy-it's only early November.  Well, Santa has to do breakfast early in the season because he goes to Texas to visit lots of kids there.  This year was special because Aunt Martha and Uncle Matt were able to bring our cousin, Morgan, who is about 2 1/2 months old.  We sang a few Christmas carols in the auditorium and Santa came out.  We were really proud of Abbie because we didn't know how she would do with Santa.  Although she looked a little nervous she got right up on his lap this year without someone having to hold her or something.  Yay Abbie!  We had a delicious breakfast in the gym at their church and visited with friends and family.  Nana and Paw-paw were there, Uncle Phil, Aunt Martha, Uncle Matt, Morgan and some of Uncle Matt's family as well.  After we had breakfast, we waited to have our pictures made with Santa.  Then, the girls were able to make some cute Christmas crafts and we were able to get a few more pictures (the girls were really tired of pictures by the end).  I was so happy to find matching dresses for the girls.  It was not easy at all this year.  I really did not think it would work and then it did!  =)  We had a good time visiting with Santa and spending some time with family.

Halloween 2012

Sophie (Merida from Brave) and Abbie (Sleeping Beauty) are ready for trunk or treat!

                                                       Abbie and Anna, one of her best buddies from school and church

Lauren and Sophie

Daddy and his silly girls after decorating the pumpkin.

The girls being silly with Mama (we are all pretending to talk on the phone since we are with the Diva pumpkin).

The girls with their pumpkin shirts on ready for school.  Abbie  wanted this hat from the circus in the picture I guess.

We had a fun Halloween this year.  It seemed to come up on us fast since our Disney trip was just a few days before Halloween.  More on the Disney trip and an early breakfast with Santa coming soon...

Pre-Halloween parties

Bobby and Abbie before we went Trunk or treating

Sophie, Dani, Bobby, and Abbie

Abbie with most of her class at their Halloween party

Here Abbie's class is doing a little Halloween poem where they say  "boo" at the end.  Abbie loves doing this!

Abbie and I after the party- my "Supergirl".

Recently, we spent a week with most of our family at Disney World.  (I will have to blog on that later when I have more time).  When we returned from our trip, we pretty much had to hit the ground running because we had birthday parties and Halloween festivities.  Abbie's preschool party was on Oct 29th and it was fun!  The kids love getting dressed up and trick or treating around the church.  The weekend before Halloween it was really cold!  Our friends, James and Krista McBride, had a Halloween party with pumpkin carving, pizza and then trunk or treat.  We made it for a little bit at Trunk or treat that night but it was really cold.

Discovery Center Field Trip

Sophie with her microscope.

 

Mary, Taylor, Sophie and Nagisa before going into the creek.

 

 

Feeling buggy?

Last week, I was able to go with Sophie's class to visit the Discovery Center.  It was a very warm day and most of us didn't realize that we'd be spending the majority of our morning outside.  We still had a great time though.  The kids were looking for animals in the wetlands, we took a walk, they donned boots and waded in the creek (2 from our group fell in and got soaked), examined fossils, studied algae through a microscope, etc.  They had a little bit of time after lunch to explore inside the museum and then it was time to head back to school.  I felt bad for the kids who fell in the creek because we didn't have any clothes for them to change into.     

Cloverfest

Sophie with Nagisa and Allie-having fun at Cloverfest!

 

Will, Sophie, Nagisa and Allie

 

silly Abbie

About a week and a half ago, they had Spirit week at Sophie's school where they had hat day, crazy sock day, Wacky Wednesday, etc.  At the end of the week, the PTA held the Cloverfest celebration.  They had face painting, a cake walk, bounce houses, obstacle courses, etc.  The girls had a great time!  Nana came as well and the weather was perfect.  This time, I got Sophie's face painted first which was a good plan but Abbie decided to get hers painted later so Nana waited in line with her.  I didn't get a picture of Abbie's face painted before she smeared it badly.  Sophie was definitely a little social butterfly!  She enjoyed seeing all of her friends!  We all had a good time catching up with old and new friends!  Daddy missed Cloverfest because he was out of town.