Halloween Fun

Halloween was a huge success this year. Both girls were able to actually walk around the neighborhood, and go door to door trick or treating. It amazes me how fast they grow up. This is our first year with out a stroller, and it was really nice.

Emma had a great day on Wednesday. She had her "fall" party at school, which was so much fun. They got so much candy from the mom's in her class. I honestly think that I counted 3 goodie bags per kid. Crazy! Abbi and I went to lunch with Emma Claire that day also, and brought a special guest with us. Tommy(one of our boys) came to school to have lunch with her too. She was so excited to have him there. She told all of her friends that he was her brother, and bragged on how cool we was to everyone. It was pretty cute, she is so smitten. We went back and stayed the rest of the day with Emma Lou at school, which was fun for me, but Abbi had enough after about 20 minutes. It is funny how much fun it is to go and help out at the school. It seems like I tried so hard to get out of school, but now i look for reasons to go back and hang out. I had a little girl ask me how I was able to come up there so much, and I told her I justloved coming up there. She of course asked me why I did not work, and if I just did not want to make money. It made me sad for her, because I am sure that she has heard that somewhere before.

The girls wore matching costumes this year, and honestly they were beautiful. I did not think that Abbi was going to wear the wings the entire time, but when you tell her "if you wear these wings and knock on people's doors, they will give you candy." then she is all about the wings. She has tried several times to go and get them on so she can get more candy. She is so silly. I tell you these girls are so stinkin funny this year. Emma is so grown up, and then there is Abbi, who is just squirely. She has been a hoot over the past couple of days. Just being a goof. We went out early Wednesday night, so that we could make it to church on time.....we were just a little late. But the main thing is that the girls had fun.

The last 2 days Emma has been out of school, I never ever thought that I utter these words, but I have said it a lot lately. It is so much easier having Emma in school all day long. It has been a challenge having her here. She is so bored, and the girls just fight all the time. I do think that Ms. Meins needs a huge raise for doing her job. Can you just imagine 17 kids all day long? I would be nuts. Yesterday we ended up at the park for 3 hours. If you know me very well at all, you know that I despise the park, it is just too much for me, but the girls loved it. We went with our friends Madison Watkins and maddie McKamie. Abbi played with Austin and the big girls too. It was fun, and I did not really want to come home. Luckily it wore the kids out, so bed time was a little easier. We had to come home thought for dinner, which was absolutely fabulous. We had Chicken parmesan with noodles and salad, and it was the best thing I have eaten from a college student. Tommy, decided to treat us to one of his famous dinners, and it was good enough to be served in a restaraunt. Of course, My pride only allowed me to tell him that it was just okay, but I am almost convinced that he should just cook for us, and not the other way around. We finished dinner got the girls to bed and then played cards. A very fun evening. I love playing cards with Chase, it is my favorite thing to do with him, until he wins. This next week is my girls trip with mom and the other gals from the family to Houston to the Nutcracker Market, so the blog may go untouched for a bit this next week. I will be having too much fun shopping to even think about blogging.

This picture just cracked me up, so I thought I would add it. Abbi was hiding from the girls in Emma's class. She was being chased and did not like it, and this was the safest place she found. She did however, stop hiding to say Cheese for the camera!