Preschool fun

Thank goodness Nick remembered the camera when he went with Brielle to her Treehouse museum fieldtrip and her Thanksgiving feast; otherwise, I would have forgotten all about it! All I know is that everything at the Treehouse Museum is so fun the girls never want to leave. (And how awesome is Brielle's full name!)  I also know that during the Thanksgiving feast, they perform a lot of cute Thankgiving songs, make fun crafts and probably don't eat much!

Happy Haunting

Halloween is not my favorite holiday.  Luckily, there are always fun things going on that we can participate in to make it fun for the girls.  This year, Emma and her friend planned a Halloween party for a group of their friends. They played the spider web game (pictured above); Halloween charades, Halloween "capture the flag", and decorated sugar cookies.  It was a perfect day to be outside, plus Emma's friends' yard provided plenty of room to fun around and get silly.  She also had a Halloween costume parade at school with a grade party later that I got to help with.  In between the parade and the party, we went to Brielle's preschool carnival where they sang songs, decorated cookies, and played some carnival games.  My mom made Brielle's Indian costume and I thought she looked so adorable! Emma had a hard time choosing her costume (partly because I thought a lot of the costumes were immodest for her age), so she finally chose a leopard girl.  On Halloween night the girls went around our neighborhood trick-or-treating with their friends and cousins. By the end of the night, their buckets were so heavy they could hardly carry them back to our house! A giant bucket of candy...what more could a kid ask for?

The Extras

Here are a few pictures of what we do in our extra time.  Brielle started dance this year.  She loves it! They are learning a tap dance to the music "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast which is really cute and for their ballet dance they get to hold a Teddy Bear so that will be fun.  Emma didn't want to do dance this year, so she started another year of soccer. She has improved so much from last year! I'm also glad that they play for two seasons because I think she has been able to keep up her skills between fall and spring. We also signed her up for basketball. She wasn't thrilled about it, but Nick was willing to coach and two of her friends wanted to play if they knew someone playing.  Their team actually went undefeated! (They had some awesome 3rd graders on the team!) I think the girls were just excited to keep getting treats at the end of the games! Emma liked it, but maybe not as much as soccer, so we'll see what she decides to do next year.

State Fair 2011

Our girls know that when it's my birthday, it also means it's time for the State Fair. They love this tradition! It is one of the rare times they get to ride a horse. Brielle had a rough experience getting on this year, so I got to follow her and her horse around, but they gave her an extra ride! We also did the giant yellow slide which is my favorite part of the fair! The girls also like the Little Hands on the Farm exhibit because they get a treat at the end. On our way out, they had Big and Rich doing a concert that sounded really fun so maybe we will have to try that out when the girls get older. Oh! And the best part was that Emma found a ticket on the ground on the way in, so she got free admission (plus we had a coupon)! I love saving money!

My Birthday + St George

I love my birthday. LOVE IT.(Besides getting older). This summer I really wanted to go to Tuachan to see the Little Mermaid. But our summer was packed. So I proposed to Nick that we go down on my birthday. What we didn't know was that every Friday night was sold out through the rest of the season. So I became a KSL stalker looking for tickets. Finally, the day before my birthday weekend, someone listed one adult and one child ticket for Friday night. We jumped on it and headed down. Emma and I saw the show which was amazing! Emma was mesmerized through the whole thing. We bought Brielle the Little Mermaid on DVD since she didn't get to go, but they announced that night that they are doing Aladdin next summer so we will definitely all go see that show.  It was a quick trip with a long ride (we realized that we have a impatient Dad and 7-yr-old when it comes to road trips), but we still had fun. We walked around the St George Temple and went through the Visitor Center, saw Smurfs, cooled down at a splash pad, and just relaxed. It was a great birthday trip!

Emma's First Day

I will catch up. Really.  Emma's first day as a 2nd grader was great. She has a lot of friends from her 1st grade class in her class again along with one of her BFF's who was in a different class last year. She has a really fun teacher who is having her first baby in the next few weeks, but she will be back after Spring Break so we are happy about that. She chases boys at recess and is getting perfect grades. The first few weeks were tough to get back into a routine and during one meltdown she cried out "2nd grade is a lot harder than 1st grade!" How rough it is to progress to the next grade! She's so funny.

Brielle's First Day

The first day of school came so quick this year! Brielle started the day before Emma this year and she was pretty excited. She's attending the same preschool she did last year except this year she is going 3 times a week instead of two. The drop-off was also a lot easier this year because Brielle's two cousins, Ike and Isabelle, are going to be in her class again! I can't believe only one more year until Kindergarten!