Happy Halloween!

My two little tricker treaters were so cute tonight. Ali was once again the cat, which she claims that she has perfected her "Meow," and Emily was a witch.

Let me just say, 2 tricker treaters equals way - way too much candy.

Emily demonstrating her "scary eyes."

Both girls gearing up with their scary faces. We certainly can not get a smile out of Emily, but she does a mean scary face.

Ready to Trick or Treat. Emily was so excited that she got to go with Ali, Olivia and Crew.

Ali's many poses.

Little Miss Jane. When Matt was putting on Ali's nose and whiskers Emily kept freaking out for her face to be painted also. So the poor girl, being a witch and all got an ugly black wart.

The gang, minus Em ready to head out. Oliva and Crew came to Trick or Treat around our neighborhood. It was really cool this year because we were able to hit so many houses in our neighborhood without it taking forever.

Olivie, Ali, Shawn, Mason and Emily. Mason is the little boy that I babysit who lives across the driveway. He was so cute and smiley when he saw the girls tonight. I think Emily has a little crush on him.

The first door of the night. With many more to follow of course. The kids were so exhausted by the time we wrapped back around to our house. Olivia was even telling people at the door that she did not need candy because her bucket was full. Every time that we went up to a house and no one answered Ali would yell "denied." She was a good sport about it and just ran to the next lit up house. There was also a house that was all decked out with a mummy in a coffin, and a strobe light flashing on it. When the kids went up to the door the porch was pretty dark and there was a fake head hanging from the door. When the person answered he said "Happy Halloween" in a really deep voice. It totally caught Ali by surprise and she took off running off the porch. As soon as she realized it was the guy with candy she went right back up to the door.

School parade and Halloween dance party

Ali's halloween parade at school was on Thursday, she loved getting dressed up in her costume to go to school. I wish that I was able to get more pictures of her walking through, but they were going so fast. Oh well, maybe next year.

Once again we had to get dressed up to go to dance, sometimes there are so many things to get dressed up for I am sick of it before Halloween even gets here.

Once again rockin' the vampire teeth. She really wanted to take them to school, but I didn't think that would be very wise with all the sickness going around every where. She was disapointed, but put them in when she got home.

Gotta love the supermodel poses. She cracks me up.

Vampire in Training

My mom got these vampire teeth for Ali to put in her treat sacks for dance. Lets just say that she is obsessed with them. She loves to listen to herself talk in them because they kind of make her lisp, so she rattles on and on asking me question after question until she about chokes from all the drool building up behind the teeth.

Fun with Jake and Jaime

Last Sunday we went over to Jake and Jaime's. The girls had the best time playing in the leaves with Jaime and the dogs, it is all that Ali can talk about. The leaves were the next best thing to snow. They were making leave angels, and throwing them, Angie and Sully were even getting in on the action.

The dogs and the girls were fighting over who got to get in the pile of leaves.

After raking, the girls had some hot tub time with Jaime. They love swimming in their pool, as Ali would say. Jaime was such a good sport and caught Emily as she would jump with no warning, and she braved all the splashing from Ali. I really don't think she was planning on getting as wet as she did.

Ali loved sitting in the corner of the tub where all the jets came out. She would sit there and giggle really loud.

Jaime helping Emily swim across the hot tub.

Ali snuggling with her 2 best friends Angie and Sully.

Sweet Pumpkins!

Thanks to Peggy and Leo we had some sweet pumpkins this year. They were sweet enough to give us pumpkins from their garden. The girls love them, and rant and rave about how sweet they are to have given them to us.

Emily with her favorite pumpkin. It is just her size and has a cute little curved stem.

Are you really sick?

This is a picture that I took of Ali in the morning before she left for school. It is also the same day that I picked her up and she was burning up with a fever of 102.

Book Worms

Becky, Jadon and Miah came over for a play date a while ago. It was so quiet upstairs, and this is where we found Emily and Miah. They had crawled in Ali's bed and were reading books. When we found them they just laughed and thought that they were so funny.

They are really starting to play good together and don't need constant attention from the mothers. Maybe we can finally get some scrapbooking done.

Girls weekend with Dad

Here are a couple of pictures of the girls weekend with Matt. He was so great to watch the girls while my mom and I went to Las Vegas. We had such a good time, but it was so fun to get to come home and see their smiling faces.

They got to meet Lex and Isabel at Lagoon and go on rides with friends. Emily had a great time and actually rode on rides, where as usually she will not.

I can not believe that Emily rode this one, this is the ride that Ali escaped while in motion when she was Emily's age.

Bowling was the highlight of the weekend. Jake and Jaime were so sweet to go with them. The girls love them as much as their own parents.

Thanks everyone for helping the kids and Matt have such a great weekend. They had such a good time and did not even know that their mother was gone.

Star Queen!

Yesterday when I went to pick Ali up at dance she came out screaming "Mom, I won, I won, no one else got one but me." She was so excited because she got the Star Student Award. She said she got it because she shook her hips and smiled the best. This has made her week, she is even taking her star student certificate to school for show and tell.

Cruisin'

Emily is totally thinking that she is neat. She can drive the corvette all by herself this year. It is so funny because she has not mastered the steering part, so she just drives in a big circle. Every now and then she will run into the garbage can, utility box, or the neighbors rose bushes, but she just laughs, and thank goodness nothing has been ruined, or hurt. When her foot slips off the pedal, she laughs and says "oops." I think that Ali is also liking the fact that Emily can do it by herself as well, she no longer has to take her for really long rides.

Ali's First Ever Sleep Over

Friday night Ali had Olivia over for a sleep over. She was so excited because she has never had a friend sleep over at our house. We had pizza, ice cream cones and watched Monsters Vs. Aliens. The girls also stayed up playing until about 11:00, then of course they wanted to read a zillion stories. Me, being the not so brilliant mother thought that the longer they stay up, the longer they will sleep in the next morning. Needless to say, that did not happen. I heard them giggling in Ali's room around 8:00.

Hooray - For Ice Cream!

Emily thoroughly enjoying her cone.

The girls very intently watching "Susan."

All ready for bed. Emily thought that she was such a big girl hanging out with the big kids. It did not last long though. The minute I turned out the lights she started freaking out.

Ali all snuggled up with Gloe.

Silly Olivia wanted to sleep with Ali's blow up pink flamingo that we got at Dollar Tree. Whatever makes her happy I guess.