Briana's Jazz Christmas Recital

Something Sweet

A conversation in my house tonight in front of the microwave.

Briana:  Mom, you know how some of your shirts are kind of old?

Me:  mmm hmm...

Briana: Those ones always feel like you and smell like you. And they're my favorite ones.

Me: (heart swelling)

Guess what movie we watched today!

A slumber party and a Huskers game

Yesterday, Mike took Briana to her very first Huskers game!

They got their Huskers gear on and headed down to Lincoln together.  Briana was sooo excited to go (and I'm sure that the fact that she was going to miss some of her sister's slumber party had nothing to do with it)!  I told Mike he had  to take tons of pictures and send them to me.  He didn't dissapoint.

There she is!!  My girl!!  At Memorial Stadium!!  Mike said they had a really good time, even though it was pretty cold out.  He bought Briana a hot chocolate, so that warmed her up.

She must have had a good time, because she was out like a light on the drive home.

Meanwhile, back at our house, we were having Sydney's slumber party for her eighth birthday!!  I know!  EIGHT!!  How did that happen? 



She wanted to invite her two BFFs over for a sleepover, so that's just what we did! 

The girls had a blast.  They ate pizza, did a ton of crafts, they did makeovers and watched movies.  It was really a pretty easy party!  And, it was Smurf themed!  Guess what cake I had to make again this year?

It was just as much fun to decorate this year as it has been in the past.  But, she's worth it! 
Happy Eighth Birthday, Sydney!!!

Halloween-y weekend

I cannot beleive it tomorrow is Halloween!  It seems like we were just swimming in the 100 degree heat yesterday.  Where does the time go? 
Friday after school, the girls got to go trick or treating at Terracon.  It is a highly anticipated event every Halloween. 

Ellie didn't get to go trick or treating, but she still got dressed up.

We decided to take the girls to the mall for trick or treating afterwards, which resulted in quite a bit of candy!



In true fall spirit, we got the girls outside to play in (rake) the leaves up yesterday.  They loved every minute of it. 

And, if the weekend wasn't exciting enough already, the girls got to sleep over at Mamaw & Papaw's house last night.  They were so excited and were counting down the minutes till they could leave all day yesterday. 
Even though we didn't have the kids with us, Mike and I decided we still wanted to go see the pumpin lighting at Village Point.  Guess who we saw there?

The lighting was pretty neat.  The pumpkins all looked great. 

No witches noses out of stems or anything, but still good.  :) 

The kids really seemed to like it too.

Pumpkin Carving

After school yesterday, the girls and I carved our jack o lanterns.  To my surprise, they carved and cleaned out their pumpkins all on their own!  I just got to sit and watch.
 

Lovely!  The pumpkins turned out super cute.

 Sydney carved a traditional jack o lantern face with vampire teeth.  Her very own design. 

Briana made a singing face on her pumpkin.  Partly because she is being Taylor Swift for Halloween, and partly because she signed up for the school choir yesterday!

See?  There they both are singing a tune.

I made my pumpkin into a mean looking face with a big, long nose.  Possibly my best pumpkin ever. 

Don't they look great?  Unfortunately, Mike had to work late and couldn't carve his pumpkin yet.  I'm sure he'll come up with something good though. 

Happy Halloween!



Happy Fall!