Trick or Treating

With Halloween on a Sunday this year, our neighborhood (most of it anyway) participated in Trick or Treating on Sunday. Here are a couple pictures of the kids (and Amber) going Trick or Treating.

Happy Halloween! :)

Trunk or Treat

This year's church Halloween party included a soup/chili dinner and then a costume parade by the kids. Afterwards we got to go outside and go Trunk or Treating from car to car in the parking lot... great way to get lots of candy quickly! :)

Some pictures of the kids during the costume parade:

Halloween Preview

Night 1 of 3 of wearing their costumes... one sweet (for a change this year) and one scary!

Kara as a rag doll & Brooke as a zombie:

Pumpkin Carving

Thanks to a fun kids activity at church on Saturday night, our pumpkin carving is done! :)

Kara & Brooke carving their pumpkins:

















Brooke's spooky owl on a tree branch:

Kara's creepy cat coming out of a witch's boot:

Both of the pumpkins lit up tonight:

Brooke's Birthday Party

This year for Brooke's birthday she invited some friends to the movie theater to see Toy Story 3. The girls had a blast! Can't believe she's grown up enough for this kind of party... but I'm glad I didn't have to do much... just supervise 5 giggly girls. Great success!

More Birthday

Even though it was late when we got home from Brooke's birthday dinner, we still had to make time to sing Happy Birthday... and Brooke's dessert of choice: Brownies! :)

Now just to wrestle with unruly 8 & 9 year olds for Brooke's party on Saturday then we're all done for another year!

Can you believe she's 8?!?!

I'm having a hard time believing that my youngest baby is 8! How did this happen? She's so talented and funny and a joy (most of the time) to be around. We love her so much and we're glad she's a part of our family.

Love you, Brookie! :)

Yay Me!

I got accepted into the nursing program at school! I start in January and I'll be done and ready to take my RN test April/May of 2012! :)

School Pictures - Scrapbook Versions

Here are the school pictures again... this time in scrapbook form.

School Pictures

Here are Kara & Brooke's 2010 school pictures. Family members: you all have a copy coming your way the next time I see you (mid-Oct. for CA family).