Party and haircuts

Sarah had her school "winter celebration" yesterday. Brian took the day off - he had days to use before the end of the year. While Iwas at school for a couple of hours, helping with centers and the party, Brian and Luke went out shopping. Later in the evening Sarah and Luke got haircuts!

Sarah and her classmates having their party.

Sarah BEFORE

Luke and Sarah AFTER

Luke has blue ring pop all over his face - they always get one after haircuts!

Christmas is coming!

We have our tree decorated, we have our house decorated, we have snowflakes, garland and lights hanging from door frames, we have our stockings on the mantle - we are ready! Sarah made a construction paper link chain at school and they were told to take off one link each night, and when the last link is there, that means Christmas is the next day! Luke wanted one too, so we made one for his door. The only problem with his is that he keeps taking links off thinking that Christmas will come as soon as he can take them all off....so I am secretly adding more links to his to make it the right number! Ha!

We visited with Santa last Sunday afternoon. Sarah wrote out her letter to Santa, and made one for Luke as well. As soon as we got in line, not a long line, Santa came out and high fived the kids and said "I'll be back in 30 minutes!"...Break time. We waited, taking turns walking around the stores with the kids...when he did come back a family with 6 girls was first in line..they took at least 7 different posed pictures--taking about 20 minutes! Finally when they were done, each family took about 3 minutes and we got up there fine! This year was a nice picture. I need to find the past SEVERAL pictures where Sarah is screaming her head off :).

Would you care for a spot of tea?

Sarah had 8 of her girlfriends over for a Birthday Tea Party. They used real china, had finger sandwiches, and drank lots of decaf tea! Two hours later we had all our family over for a Family Birthday Party...no better way than to celebrate 6 wonderful years...Happy Birthday sweet Sarah.

Leaves

We have tons of leaves, which means lots of piles for jumping in...always fun.

Halloween

Luke the morning of Halloween

Sarah before school on Friday

Halloween was great this year because it was on a Friday, so it didn't matter how late we stayed out, or how late the kids went to bed!!

We started out the afternoon by going to Publix with some friends. Publix had several games set up in the store, and goodie bag stops along the way. We ran into some more people we knew there, and the kids loved it!

Next stop was a friends house for pizza, and then at dusk we met up with more friends and started our trek through the neighborhood. The kids had so much candy, they couldn't even carry their bags anymore - we knew we were done!

We had invited several people back to our house afterwards for a campfire and smores. Six families came, with their kids...and we had a wonderful time!! It was a late night, but it was great!!!

Another pumpkin patch trip...

Pumpkins

Sarah's school took all the Kindergarten classes to the Pumpkin Farm - Luke and I joined them. Kids went to the petting zoo, learned how pumpkins grow, took a great hay ride, and then got to pick their own pumpkin out of the pumpkin patch!