Saturday, October 31, 2009

This was Ashleigh & Julia's 1st year trick or treating! Normally we go to Fall Festival at church where there's pony rides, a giant inflatable slide, face painting, games & more. But this year the "neighborhood thing" seemed much more interesting to Ashleigh. And Julia, well she just goes with the flow. I'm sure in a few years she'll be much more opinionated. Since traditional school started in August, Ashleigh's grown closer to some of the neighborhood kids. On most days when she gets off the bus she wants to run to her friends' bus stop to play on the walk back home. Since they asked her to go trick or treating as a group, that sounded way more fun to Ashleigh than Fall Festival.
Since lil' J was coming along, I decided to take our wagon. At 1st Julia was not interested in going to strangers homes, but towards the end of the outing she was running to the door with the rest of them.
Ashleigh was very excited! After receiving her candy, she would say thank yoooouuu in her cute southern voice. Then skip in an Ashleigh sort of way to the next house. Anyone who knows her knows what I mean by that. :)
The Buzzy Bees

my smallest bee

The Trick or Treat Posse


This is one of our neighbors...she's just too cute not to include.
After coming home & diving into our candy...all of us stayed up until about 11:00. Needless to say, we all slept in the next morning.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!



Sunday, October 4, 2009

...thought we'd give Daddy a break

After a busy week of driving 3,000 million gazillion miles, we thought hey let's give Daddy a break, a little siesta, if you will. So Ashleigh, Julia & I took a picnic to the park & stayed & played for a while.



Mama, look what I found!


...this looked like a spinning flower cup.

...oh, to be a kid again, pure joy!

Julia loved bouncing on this one.

I spun Ashleigh around fairly quickly on this one...she looked like a spinning top, before flying off that is. I got a little carried away...It was so much fun! No harm done though...no injuries sustained.

Our little explorer

Zoom, zoom, zoom goes the car!

Our little "spidergirl"
We loved this creative playground with so many different ways to climb & swing.

Our Little Swinger