More of Madie's fun faces!

Madie is so funny. She has a lot of faces she LOVES to make and this is one of them!

This is her "surprised" look, but she uses it for more than being surprised!

The toothfairy and the dentist

I tell you a tale of a little girl named Cailee. She longed to have a loose tooth due to the fact that a lot of her friends were losing teeth. One day she came to me and said she could wiggle one of her bottom teeth. I didn't see it move much, but a little. I told her it would take a little time for it to be loose enough to fall out. So time went on and one day, this sweet little girl had a toy fall on her and hit her in the mouth. While her daddy was investigating the fall, he discovered something white in her mouth behind her two bottom teeth. Low and behold....a tooth. Her tooth had grown in behind instead of pushing her baby tooth out. So as the story goes, a phone call and a visit to her dentist brought two baby teeth home for the toothfairy. She was brave and the toothfairy rewarded her! She was so happy to have money "of her own"! She was so proud to spend her money when she found "just the right thing".

Pick a pumpkin...

Abby's preschool has a family outing once a month and this month we went to Studt's Pumpkin Patch to pick a pumpkin! I think the kids had fun. It was REALLY windy and that made the dust really fly, but other than that I think they had fun trying to find that perfect pumpkin and trying to pick them up!

What do you get when you mix...

A Princess, A butterfly, A ninja and A fairy butterfly?? Really cute kids on Holloween night! We had a fun night of trunk trick or treating at the church. I love being able to go there and when we are done there come home and be done for the night. The kids had fun going trunk to trunk getting candy and by the time we had gone through everyone were freezing. Worked out perfectly!!

Brandon trying to be a "tough" ninja! There was a mask, but he wouldn't wear it for anything.

For the past year (yes I said year) Cailee has been talking about being Jasmine for Halloween and do you think we could find a costume for anything? Thankfully a friend of mine was Jasmine in a play when she was younger and had her mom send the costume! Thanks Nicole, you saved the day!

Abby didn't feel so good most of the day, but managed to drum up the desire to go trick or treating. She was a very beautiful fairy butterfly!
And then came our little butterfly! Madie came for part of the trunk or treating and then attempted to make an escape out of the stroller and attempted a nose dive onto the concrete. Thankfully one of the straps held her in from face planting. She spent the rest of the time with Daddy passing out candy!

Phantom of the Opera

Blake and I went to a Halloween party the night before Halloween and had a great time! Darcy and Darrin had a lot of fun activities for us to do but I have to say that thinking up the costumes and finding everything was a lot of fun. I came up with the idea to be the Phantom of the Opera and Christine this year. In all eight years we have been married, I've never dressed up for Halloween, so this was fun! The dress was most definately the hardest to find and thanks to my awesome friend Kristen, I was able to finish off the costume! Blake made an awesome phantom if I say so myself...and I do!! This year I decided to take on the task of making a cape and was pleasantly surprised that it actually turned out kind of nice! I haven't sewn in a REALLY long time and didn't really even know how to thread my sewing machine so this was a great accomplishment!

There were a lot of fun costumes at the party and we had a great time. Here is us!