The Circus

While Lauren and Jessica were at camp Emma and I went to Dance, did grocery shopping, Laundry and then out to the Circus. We met some friends from church there and had an interesting time. It was definately a budget circus. They had elephants and most everything you would have at a regular circus but when they called out the Lions 4 little dogs came out. To be fair they did have haicuts like a lion would have. All that mattered was that Emma thought it was the greatest thing. We will have to take her to the real circus when it comes to town - Bill

No Training Wheels!

Bill took the training wheels off Lauren's old bike (currently Emma's) and was going to work with Lauren on the grass. She jumped right on the bike and started riding on the street, without training wheels! She was so excited. I have a video, and will try and figure out how to get that loaded onto the blog. In the meantime, here is a photo of the great event!

Daisy Camp

Lauren and I spent Saturday at the Girl Scout's Camp TexLake, which is inside Pace Bend Park. It was a fun day to spend at camp, walking around the park, cleaning up the shoreline for the service activity, doing many crafts which were hosted by the Girl Scout Cadets. We had a lunch picnic with all the girls and during our break the girls colored a large banner. Lauren had so much fun swapping her troop goodies with the other girls. Here are photos from our day.

Lauren's 50's Party at School

The kindergarten classes at Lauren's school decided to celebrate the 50th day of school by throwing a 50's themed party. I asked Grandma Luci to make Lauren a poodle skirt to wear for the day, and it looked just darling on Lauren! Grandma Luci also made one for Emma :-)

Halloween Night

We had a blast on Halloween night. Our next door neighbors host a party outside for all the trick-or-treaters in the neighborhood, so we spent most of the afternoon and evening there. We went to a few houses once the sun went down, then let the kids bounce in the inflatable until they came to us and asked to go to bed. That's when you know it's been a busy day!

Pre-Halloween Poses - Emma laughing like a witch next to our pumpkin patch

Pre-Game Warm-Up (UT was playing right during trick-or-treating, so they had a TV set up!)

At the Party

Two Worn Out Little Girls

Halloween Fall Festival, Part II

Bill foreshadowed better pictures to come, and I do want want to disappoint the readers of our blog. So, with much delay, but I'm sure much built-up anticipation, here are my photos from Emma's Fall Festival at school. My favorite event was when Lauren's fire fighter friends came and they remembered her from our swine flu episode. Lauren asked to have her photo taken with the nice man who helped keep mommy calm :-)

Emma really enjoyed getting her nails painted. Out of a sea of rainbow colors, she found the only bright orange bottle and made the girl add white dots so she could have a pretty hook 'em horns.

We also found out that Emma has a mean rightie. She loved the dunking booth, had been talking about it the entire week prior, and couldn't wait to get one of her teachers dunked. She was extremely excited when she saw it would be the school's owner, Mr. Dan. After Emma's turn, it was daddy's turn, and he dunked Mr. Dan twice. I hope that doesn't get reflected in our tuition payments!

Halloween day pictures

We had a very busy Halloween this year. Lauren and Emma started the day with dance class while I went to Emma's school to help set up their Fall Festival. I brought my Popcorn Machine and handed out popcorn for 4 hours. The girls had a great time. Jessica has better pictures and will post them soon. -Bill