Halloween!

Halloween fun, captions courtesy of Clara!

I wanna say that Lucy has a costume. A Flamingo [flamenco] dancer. Clara is a butterfly. Mama is a rocket ship [aka rock star]. Grandma have dinner with us.

Clara, a butterfly.

I wanna say that I'm little baby Lucy's hugging me. Lucy's running.

Lucy doing [demonstrating singing].

Putting buckets on our head.

Clara. Bananas chocolate chips on top- ghosts. And pumpkins!

Grandma, having dinner.

Pumpkin picking!

Clara: "I wanna say, that we ride on the tractor."

 Captions courtesy of Clara and Lucy.

Clara: "I wanna say, that you go on the tractor"

Clara: "I wanna say Mimi. Emma"

Lucy: "This is me, pulling a pumpkin in a wagon at pumpkin picking."

Lucy: "This is Clara holding a pumpkin at pumpkin picking."

Lucy: "Me on the hayride at pumpkin picking on the tractor."

Elizabeth: "Our family portrait. We didn't realize until afterward that Clara was being goofy. ;)"

Clara putting ice cream on Lucy's nose

A few weeks ago we went out for dinner and ice cream with Mimi. Lucy finished her cone first, and asked Clara to share some. Much merriment ensued...

First day of Kindergarten!

Lucy had her first day of kindergarten last week. Our little girl is growing up! She was very excited and had a wonderful time.

Her special first day outfit.

Modeling the backpack. I think it's almost bigger than her (her rest time blanket was in there too).

I love my little Lucy so much.

Clara giving Lucy a hug. She really missed Lucy during the day was so happy when she came home.

Right before the bus came, Lucy found a moth and got it to crawl up on her sleeve.

Our new chart for what Lucy needs to do in the morning to get ready. Of course, the waiting for 7am to get me part is pretty optimistic, but I can hope. :)

End of summer adventures

I wish I was writing about the beginning of summer adventures, but at any rate, here they are!

A last swim at our favorite lake.

Grandma Judy gave the girls this beautiful tree. We're using it to display family pictures in the girls' room- so fun!

We went to an island in the city harbor over labor day weekend. The girls loved everything about the trip- especially the ferry ride. Here's Lucy climbing one of the trees.

We also had fun exploring an old fort there and collecting stones and seashells.

We had a miniature golf family outing the day before school started. Lucy even got a hole in one!

I love Clara's pretend pout.

By the waterfall.

And afterwards there was ice cream!

I just had to throw this one in- Clara talking on the phone to Mimi and Papa Jack. She cracks me up.

We had Grandma over for dinner to celebrate her 83rd birthday- the girls and I made a rainbow cake, which was so much fun- my first one ever!

The birthday grandma with her cake!

Blueberry Picking

That is me standing on the blueberry porch, where you get blueberries.

That is my sister, Clara, outside of the porch, cause they put lots of pinwheels there.

And that is us walking to go get the blueberries. And do you know how hot it was? It was almost 100.

That is my sister picking blueberries in my Grandma's hat.

That is my sister picking blueberries again.

That is my Grandma, picking blueberries.

And that is me, I think I was helping put some blueberries in my sister's bucket.

That is my sister showing a blueberry to us.

And that is a family picture, us sitting on the rocks that's around the blueberry place. Those are my cousins that came with us.

And that is my Grandma, me and my sister.

That is my Grandma, me and my sister again.

That is me holding our blueberry pie!

That's us eating it!