Trick or Treat!

 Happy Halloween!  

We had beautiful weather in Liberty this year for trick or treat night.  

And the girls loved every minute of it!

 Emily was the lucky girl to pick a costume for me to sew this year.  She at first wanted to be Hermoine Granger from Harry Potter, but after looking through the pattern books decided on a vampire.  

For some reason she wouldn't let me paint her face white or give her sunken eyes, only red lips.  

This is her spooky pose.  I was sewing this cloak until about 45 minutes before we left, and I still need to hem the bottom!  Oh well, it really was a lot of fun to sew and makes me want to take on another sewing challenge.

 Audrey was Lucy from The Chronicles of Narnia for our Ward Trunk or Treat but last minute decided to be an Indian for Halloween night.  This is her interpretation of an Indian pose (where did this come from!).

 This is the first year Marcella actually chose NOT to be a princess (me forcing her to be a pumpkin and bunny at age 1 and 2 doesn't count).  She waffled pretty badly between being Bell from Beauty and the Beast and this cute black cat, but the cat won.  

I think it was the head band ears and whiskers that did the trick!

 Rylee Jo was, of course, a princess.  This is her princess pose.  What a goof ball!

 Rylee didn't trick or treat quite as long as our other candy mongers.  But she had fun coming home to watch a movie and eat candy while she waited for her sisters to finish.  Before I actually realized what she was doing, she had eaten about a third of her candy and she wanted more!

 Meg was our pumpkin this year...  Isn't she so cute?!

 Olivia wore my old prison costume from high school.  It still looks dang good, huh?  The bruised eye and stitches were my idea.  She had lots of people ask her what she was doing time for, so it was fun for her to make things up as she went through the night.

Fall Play

Liberty Middle School put on 2 one-act plays this fall, Twinderella and Tenderfella.  Olivia was the movie director in Tenderfella and then was part of the crew for Twinderella.  She had a blast and had such a great time she is planning on trying out for the spring musical.  I think she was one of the best actors on stage, but I suppose I'm a little biased!

10 months

The many faces of Meg at ten months old

Ta-dah!  Meg is crawling now!  I can't believe how fast she has grown up.

Liberty Fall Festival

 Liberty had their annual Fall Festival this weekend.  We had lots of fun walking up and down and all around the square looking at all of the fun things to see and buy.

 One vendor paid a face paint artist to paint faces for free all weekend.  How Fun!  She was great and the girls loved it... I think it was worth the wait in line (Remember, you can double click to get a closer look at the paint).

I think this is the funniest picture!  The girls specifically asked for a side shot of their faces, pretty cute huh!?!  We had tons of fun, but now we're all tired and grumpy. 

I think it'll be an early bed time tonight!

Back to School

 I know these are long overdue, but here they are.  Olivia started Middle School this year.  Now that is something!  She is loving every bit of it.  She was surprised that she was one of the only girls to actually wear a dress the first day.....oh Honey, I hope you stay who you are, dress the way you like and don't fall into the "everybody else is doing it" crowd.

 Emily started 4th grade, Audrey 3rd grade and my Marcella Bella finally became an official Kindergartener!

I was a little nervous for her to go straight into all day Kindergarten, but she loves it!  She's a tad cranky at night, but I hope that a little more time will fix that problem.  The thing that surprised her the most about Kindergarten is that your teacher doesn't eat lunch with you!  I guess no one ever mentioned that to her...

Back into the swing of things... for now

 Meg is now almost 10 months old (geeze, I can hardly believe it!) and Olivia, Emily, Audrey and Marcella have been in school for over a month.  After a crazy summer, I am finally starting to feel like some normalcy is coming back.  It's been long over due.  I don't think I've felt this way in over a year!  I guess that's normal with a move and baby #6 in a year, right?!

 I love these pictures of her!  I was dusting and vacuuming up a storm one day and just happened to notice Meg trying to touch the dust floating through the air in the sun!  It was too sweet not to snap a picture.

Two Months!

Look who's two months and smiling like it's going out of style!

I know this is a strange picture, but look!  You can see both of her dimples!

Meg has not been the easiest baby.  She fusses quite a bit and wants to be held almost all day long.  I don't usually mind, because she is our last baby and I'm really soaking it in, but my house is the worse for wear because of it.  She is out growing this slowly.  Just yesterday, I was in my bedroom folding laundry.  Meg was on the bed and I was talking to her as I folded.  I left the room to get another load out of the dryer, and while I was gone she started to cry!  As soon as I came back and started talking to her again she was happy and smiling once again.  Oh no, I'm in for a long journey with this baby girl!

Cutest girl ever!  Just wish I could get better lighting so that you all could see that her hair is Auburn.  If it stays, it'll be another color for our family!!