Tea Time!

Bet you never thought you'd hear me say that right? Wrong! I was able to go to a fabulous tea party with Carol, Katie, Emily, Melissa, Savannah and Donna. It was really fun. And yes - our tea pot was filled with Hot chocolate rather than tea.

The girls and I all dressed up and ready to go

Emily and Savannah all dressed up for christmas tea

Melissa and Savannah with the beautiful tea table - there was a lot of yummy sandwiches and the desserts were divine



Yes - it really says 13 1/2 street. And it really was a 1/2 street...it only went partway down the block and then...it just disappeared...

Say Hi to Sage!

So Mel was nice enough to let us ride on the horses. I just wanted to say Thanks! Mom has most of this pics, but here is just a little bit of the fun we had!


Riding off into the Sunset...

Halloween 2009

Pics from the family party will have to come later - as I didn't get my camera out the entire weekend. But on Halloween night, I was able to go trick or treating with the scariest "good" dragon and beautiful evil vampire in the world. Melissa, as usual, went all out with costumes and make-up. And this year, I actually got to join in a bit!
Savannah looked awesome as a vampire. Melissa has a close-up of the cute little swirly/sparkly design on her cheek. Yes - I'm taking credit. I didn't do much besides spray hair and rub white all over, but I did do the swirly thing on Halloween. For a non-artist like myself, I think it turned out pretty dang cute! Also,she was such an awesome vampire, that when we hit a house that had run out of candy, the guy went in and got her a dollar. When he asked if she took money, she whispered in a very spooky voice, "why yes I do!"
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What else would Mikayla be besides a dragon? She's obsessed, and this just fed the obsession. But even I had to admit that she was the cutest darn dragon I've ever seen. She got more compliments while we were out trick or treating that anything I've seen! Of course, it helped that she told everyone "Beware of dragons...for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup". The adults just couldn't help themselves as they piled the candy into her bag. And as she left, she always made sure to tell them, "Good dragon's don't eat good people". We left most of them just cracking up!

The girls "carved" pumpkins. Which involved them drawing all over and Melissa and I trying to figure out a way to make it into something carvable. Savannah's was actually not too difficult. Mikayla's, on the other hand...well let's just say that I think I should be nominated for the Carver of the Year award!

Getting ready to go trick or treating with Freya and Tracey. They were a pain to lug around (we went quite a long ways and they have little feet), but we got a lot of attention from both kids and adults

Melissa's pumpkin - all lit up


Mikayla's pumpkin had a color changing light

Savannah's had a strobe light. It took about 7 tries just to get it to light up enough to see in the pic!