Father-Daughter Dance 2013

I love that the PTA gives our girls an opportunity to dress up and dance with their Dad's!

And Darin said that Elissa made him dance the night away this year! :-)

    

Their Reaction…..

We finally told the kids!

We have been working on a deal with some neighbors down the street to buy their home. They have a waterfront lot on the island where they are going to build a new home. We came to an agreement and papers are signed. The house will officially be ours the end of February, but we won't move in till June or July. They are going to rent back to us while they build and we get our house ready to sell.

You didn't see that after a few minutes in the house, Zach was crying a bit. He didn't want to move. But then we got him outside running around and talking about all the room we were going to have and his new room and his mood turned around. They are excited now! We'll see how we all are when it finally comes time to move…..

Rainbow park and the lake are in our backyard.

Church Christmas Program

Friday, 12.7

"Can't Stop These Shoes"

It was a GREAT play this year.

The kids had so much fun learning the songs and dancing. Elissa was a ballerina and Zach was a camera man. Zach stole the show with his dance moves. It was hilarious! :-)

These are pictures from the dress rehearsal.

  

  

  

A little Elvis….."thank you very much".

I can't wait to get the video from the performance to watch it again!

3rd Grade Performance

Thursday, 11.29

She was a duck.

Elissa did a really great job with her lines. :-)

So were her friends, Kendall & Jessica.

  

{A}lyssa was a princess and Olivia was a forest ranger.

It was a fun little play telling us how to treat the environment.

Halloween 2012

This is how they left for school.

  

I really wanted Zach to have this shirt, but Walmart decided it was on the recall list when I brought it up to buy it. It makes me laugh every time I read it. :-)

 

Our school doesn't allow costumes and instead makes it "black & orange" day.

It is kind of a bummer. I remember that being something to look forward to during the school year.

And then that night they transformed into a slinky clown and Ironhide from Transformers.

The kids were excited to get out. Zach was mostly concerned with getting to the other loop to see his friends Brady & Christian.

    

Even Newman came out with his costume. :-)

He would't wear his hood.

We finally got to the other loop where Zach got to see Brady and Elissa & her friend Olivia.

   

Elissa left us and went on with Olivia. Zach then was on a mission to find Christian.

  

He found Christian and was then done with trick-or-treating. Funny guy. Darin took him home and I went to pick up Elissa.

Elissa wanted to trick-or-treat her way home.

  

She was so funny. She would go up to the door and have a conversation with the people. They all loved her costume and I would hear, "How adorable! So cute! I love the colors! So original!" She really enjoyed that. Then she would say as she left, "Scares and Ghouls!" I asked her what this meant and she said, "They think I'm cute when I say it." She was in her element. :-)

Our last trick-or-treat of the evening.

It was a FUN evening! Warm and dry!

We'll have to coordinate with their friends better next year.

Happy Halloween!