lately

A few recent and very random pics...

Here are the girls pretending to go to bible study, complete with my bible study workbook and our bibles!  :)

 Blurry pic of the kids on our way to our mini-session for Christmas card pics...we'll leave the clear pics up to the professional!

Modeling new coats during the unexpected super cold snap in November.

Playing with their favorite dollies...old bunny and dirty caca {yep. those are their names.}

Turkey shirts!

happy halloween!

What a fun Halloween!  This was the first year that the girls got into it and had fun with costumes and trick-or-treating.  And let's be honest, they are STILL having fun wearing costumes every day {and sometimes at night}.  I had sort of assumed that I had at least one more year of being able to choose the kids' costumes, and to give them a matchy matchy theme.  But nope!  All 3 had very specific ideas for what they wanted to be.  We had an American Ninja Warrior and 2 Queen Elsas! {sorry, Anna!}  The Elsa costumes were easy, because every store in America was selling a version of the Elsa dress.  The American Ninja Warrior, however, was a little trickier, because the competitors on that show just wear their own clothes.  Luckily there was one episode that was a competition between America and Japan, and the American team had matching shirts.  So after looking everywhere for a t-shirt with the ninja warrior logo on it and finding nothing, I made one for Will.  It was worth the extra effort, because he loves it and wears it all the time!

Starting the day with a "daddy arm hang"

Will had his preschool Halloween party on actual Halloween day, so he got to wear his costume all day!

Will's class had 5 Queen Elsas!

They had a cute little costume parade for the parents to watch.

We had Mimi, Duke, Nana & Aunt Ryan over for dinner and trick-or-treating.

 Will was just a LITTLE excited!

 Let it goooooo!

 Happy Halloween!!

elsa-obsessed

These girls are obsessed with Frozen.  It's so entertaining, because Will has never been obsessed with a movie or any specific characters, so seeing the girls so completely enthralled with this is all new to us.  We listen to the soundtrack over and over and over and over again, and they know most of the words to all the songs.  They do enjoy watching the whole movie occasionally, but mostly they just want to watch "Queen Elsa's song" over and over, while they perfect each move of the dance and song.  I need to post some videos, but for now, here are some pictures of our life in Frozen-world.

We have both Elsa AND Anna costumes, but Elsa is the clear winner most of the time.

They request Elsa braids.  {clearly, I can only do so much here.}

With very few exceptions, they wear Elsa dresses every day, and many nights.  These dresses are technically nightgowns, so they are super comfy, and the girls LOVE them.  

They color pictures in them...

They ride bikes and cars in them...

They dress like crazy people in them...

They love on their babies while wearing them...

And, of course, they throw epic tantrums in them.

And we read the Frozen books at least 10 times a day, including in the carpool line.  :)

And sweet Em didn't have a book, but I didn't want to leave her cute picture out.

So I made them some Elsa-inspired shirts, which they love!

And at the risk of ruining the surprise of the next post....can you guess what they dressed up as for Halloween?  Not a big shocker.  :)

Brainwashing job well done, Disney.  ;)

bubbles and hugs

Weird name for a blog post, huh?  We busted out the bubble machine one evening a few weeks ago, and the kids had a blast!!  They played for probably almost an hour in the bubbles, and then spontaneously broke into lots of hugs.  It was really cute, and I loved that they were running off energy before bedtime.  Win-win!  :)