Happy Birthday (party) Cara!

The party room :)

 

The girls opening their treat bags.

 Cara was beyond excited!

 This little one is Brianna :)

 No party would be complete with out Zachy-Boy!

 Little Evelyn....might have been a bit young for the pary, but she was so adorable and had a fabulous time!

 Cara and Reagan....rockstars!

 The girls working hard on making their candy necklaces

 Cara and Charli

 Decorating cupcake "skirts" for their polly pocket girls.

 She was SO excited about her cake! She wanted Barbie Princess and the Popstar.

 This was as good as I could do :)

 Every single present she opened, she loved!

 Her overnight birthday friend, Reagan :)

Picture Day for Christmas :)

Alex

Cara

Someday I will hopefully get a nice shot of the two of them!

So, there I was, ready to take Christmas pictures of the kids for the year. We woke up and it is a balmy 75 degrees out today!!! This is SO not Christmas weather!!!! So, our pictures have ended up more springish than Christmassy, but oh well! As you can see, I still haven't been able to get a good shot of the two of them together, but someday I will :)

Our Pumpkins!

Alex, drawing his face he wants carved :)

Cara, concentrating hard on drawing her face :)

Alex's result....

Cara's result

Cara did so aweomse pulling the guts out!!

Alex, on the other hand, couldn't even bear to put his hand in once! It just didn't want to get yucky!!

She did get gossed out, but she stuck through it.

Our family of pumpkins :)

The kids loved having the candles in the pumpkins!

Mine and Alex's....his turned out a wee bit more terrifying than I wanted....

I thought Blake did an excellent job making Cara's look like her actual picture :)

Fire Safety Week!

Alex, all ready for the firetruck!

 

Alex, and his bestie Jilly :) 

 

Both classes, getting ready for the firefighters :)

 

In full gear! 

 

Alex's class, getting ready to look at the firetruck

 

 

 

Cara's class getting ready to look at the firetruck

 

 

My two munchkins, who yes pick out their own clothes, and who also kinda grimace at the camera at times.....

  The kids had so much fun during fireweek at school! The week ended with the fire department sending out a firetruck to the school :) They learned so much: How to dial 911 in case of an emergency, how to Stop-Drop-and Roll, how not to be afraid of the firefighters when they come in to rescue you. Alex really really learned that you feel a door to see if it is hot, and if it is, then you have to climb out a window to escape the fire.....He loves that rule! Cara keeps bugging me now to come up with a meeting place outside in case of a fire. Maybe fires will replace tornados in her journal now......If you haven't heard about her journal, it's quite amusing! Maybe I will do a blog on that :)
        One other amusing note...when the firefighter had all of his gear on in the classroom, Alex turned and looked at me and stated "He sounds JUST like Darth Vader!" Makes a mother's heart proud :)

The kids

Cara and Alex

 She's looking a little photoshopped....I am working on that :)

 His turned out pretty cute :) Less photoshopped-ness going on.