Pumpkin Time, and Halloween

We really wanted to go take the girls to a Pumpkin patch this year, but we were really busy and never seemed to get around to it, so the day before Halloween we decide to go to a place called the Depot Market, in a little town nearby. They had a little hay maze which the girls thought was the coolest thing ever and ended up going through it about 20 times. They had a whole bunch of pumpkins to choose from and they had a little shop where we could buy things like fresh apple cider, yummy. It wasn't a pumpkin patch, and next year I really want to make sure we take the girls to one, but it was still fun. I really love this picture. Kevy and his little girlies. He is the best daddy. They just adore him.


Nellie and her cheesy grin, she is going through a funny smile phase and every time we say to smile, she closes her eyes and smiles really big, I love it.

My sweet Lizzy, she is just the sweetest girl ever.

The girls were very happy with the pumpkins they picked out. Lizzy named hers Bobo and Nellie named hers Spookley.

Daddy helping the girls carve, I never knew he could be such a perfectionist about something, he had to get it perfect.

There is that smile again!

Lizzy enjoyed getting the guts out, she wanted to make sure her pumpkin had all the bugs (that is what she calls germs) out. She really thought the guts were making her pumpkin sick.


Lizzy's with her finished product.

Nellie and Spookley, she helped me by making a big hole in the side of the pumpkin, we decided it was an ear, so then Lizzy put some ears in hers as well.

For Halloween this year, I was going to make Nellie a black cat costume, but when we got to the fabric store I saw this fabric and asked Nellie which one she wanted and she of course chose the Baby Jaguar, because of her obsession with Diego. She was the cutest Jaguar ever! Every time we would make reference to it Nellie would say "reow reow" Just like baby Jaguar says. It was so funny.

I absolutely love this picture of Nellie. She loved that I put whiskers on her, and a nose, that night when I wiped them off she got so mad and asked me to put them back on.

Lizzy wanted to be a witch this year, but she would always reference that with "a good witch" Because good witches wear purple. I thought I picked out easy patterns this year to sew, but the fabric was a nightmare, Plus the fur on Lizzy's I couldn't get to sew on with the machine so I had to sew it on by hand, which is always fun. Oh well, someday I am going to make it easier on myself, I just hope one day the girls feel like it was special that I made their costumes.She was the cutest witch ever! She was so funny all day she asked me every five minutes if it was time to go trick-or-treating, and just about had a heart attack every time I told her it was not for a while. It is so fun to see your kids get so excited about things.

We went trick-or-treating downtown and Lizzy found one of her boyfriends Terin. They held hands the whole time, it was so dang cute!

Stuff

Nellie has gotten a little obsessed about a couple of things, her blanket and Diego, she seriously cannot get enough of Diego. She wants to watch Diego 50 times a day. She also has a little Diego doll that she just loves and if she isn't going to sleep like she should, all we have to do is threaten taking away Diego or her blanket and we don't hear another peep out of her. Lizzy is totally a girly girl into the princesses and dressing up and dancing and all that stuff, but Nellie not so much. They both get into huge fights about whose turn it is to watch their show, because Lizzy wants only princess and Nellie wants only "my Diego" She also is obsessed with the color green and wants anything green and lets me know all the time "it's my favorite." Nellie loves her "brankie" so much. She has to have it with her pretty much at all times. I was getting ready one day and I came out and found that she had wrapped herself up in it, so cute.

Whenever Kevin is home the girls pretty much want him, and I try not to feel too bad because they have me all day, but at night when we kneel down for prayer they both always have to sit on MY lap. Its one of those little things that really means a lot to me.

One day right after I had gotten Nellie ready and her hair all done looking really cute, I went in the bathroom to finish getting Lizzy's hair done and I made a huge mistake, I left the mousse in the room with Nellie and came out and found this. She decided that she needed a little more mousse on her hair. The picture doesn't do justice to how drenched with mousse her hair was.

The girls love to be naked, or as they say "nakie nakie" Nellie loves to run around the house totally naked and shake her little buns as she says it. I guess at this age that is still okay. One day when I was doing laundry they decided they wanted to try on Kevin's socks and of course they had to strip down to do this. They looked really cute though.

The gals in their Halloween shirts that Grandma gave them. They love them and want to wear them just about every day. Thanks Grandma!

Just Us

It used to be that I always felt so lonely when we would do things because I am so used to having so much family around, and I still really miss that, but it has been really fun lately to do stuff just us. The girls are getting older and really starting to understand and enjoy stuff and we have had a freaking blast doing stuff with just our little family.

For Labor day we took the girls to the zoo, it has been a while since we had been to the zoo and the girls had a blast.

Nellie is such an animal lover, Lizzy was as a baby but then she started to get scared of them, Nellie can't get enough of them and just wants to hug and kiss them all. We got the girls some animal juice bottles and they thought they were so cool. Oh the simple things that little kids think are so neat. We were able to feed the giraffes that day, it was really cool, Lizzy totally chickened out at the last minute and dropped the hay right as the giraffe was going to eat it, but Nellie didn't have a hard time and she loved it.


We got Lizzy some training wheels to put on a old bike that someone gave us. Lizzy thought she was pretty cool riding around She has no idea that the bike is really a piece of junk, to her it is great.
Nellie loves riding her tricycle that she got for her birthday. I love that cheesy grin.

One Saturday we were going to go to the State Fair but it was rainy so we couldn't go, the girls were pretty disappointed, so we decided to go to the local bowling alley that was just reopened. It was only us there but the girls had so much fun and it was so cute to watch them.
Nellie was so cute, she would push her ball down the little thing, and every single time she would say "Go Ball!"
Now every time we drive past the bowling alley Lizzy asks me if we can "go bolding today?"

The girlies love doing activities and love to be on the counter helping me. One day we decided to make salt dough ghosts and they loved it. Helping me mix stuff up is one of their favorite things to do.

Man, my belly looks big in this picture. It must be the angle :)

Our town has a little fall festival every year and Lizzy was dying to ride the preschool float with all of her "buddies" She loves the boys, she doesn't really have many friends that are girls, most of her friends are boys, but that is also because most of the kids her age here are boys. It is hilarious though because the boys are all in love with her. I guess that really isn't a surprise, she has always had such an outgoing and bubbly personality, everybody loves Lizzy. It was funny because one day one of the Moms of one of the boys that she had just met and played with for the first time told me that her son told her "I really like Lizzy, isn't she beautiful?"

I just know we are in for it when she is a teenager.

Nellie loved the parade and of course all of the candy that she got, she really got into the running after the candy, and didn't let anyone get in the way of her and her candy.

Lizzy's little dance company performed in the street later that afternoon, she did such a good job. They performed to "born to be wild" she sings the song all the time and does the little dance around the house.
There were also free rides for the kids and things for them to do. The girls love riding bikes. And Lizzy of couse had to ride the pink tractor.

We have had so much fun together as a little family, it is so neat to watch the girls grow and start to enjoy things and understand. We just can't wait for little Jane to come and join the family so that we can start some more fun memories with her.