Halloween Costume Parade

Kaylin and Annlee had their annual costume parade this morning at school. They love wearing their costumes and seeing everyone elses. They both looked very pretty!

Before school - Maryella had to get in on the picture too!

Annlee in the parade

Kaylin in the parade

Kaylin and her friend, Kyria

Fall Festival

We had our annual Fall Festival at church today and it was great fun! Our cousins were still in town, so the girls loved playing with them. Kaylin and Audrey became best buddies and stuck together all day long.

In the bounce house

On the slide (Annlee, then Ruby, then Kelly)

"Bobbing" for donuts (Maryella, then Annlee, then Kelly)

Kaylin as Hannah Montana

Face Painting

Kaylin and Audrey

Doing crafts

Marmie and Elianna with Peggy and Rhett

Elianna in the pumpkin patch

Annlee and Ruby in the pumpkin patch and showing off their face painting

Family Ties

What a wonderful, wonderful time we had this weekend with family! My parents, my grandmother, and tons of cousins came to our house for a visit and it was such a fun time! We laughed and played all day long. Our girls had a fabulous time with their cousins from California - Kelly, Audrey and Ruby. They are SUCH sweet kids!!!! Everyone arrived around lunch time and they stayed until about 9 or 9:30 when they went to crash at the hotel. Then they all came back over for church and our Fall Festival (I'll put that in another post).

Here's a bunch of pictures from the day...

All the kids together

All the adults

Kaylin and Audrey

Annlee, Ruby and Maryella

Running a relay race

Playing in the playhouse

All the girls playing dress up

Kaylin, Marmie, Ma-don, Tiffany, Kelly

Farm Field Trip!

All the kindergarten classes at Annlee's school went to a farm yesterday for their field trip. They got to ride a school bus, which was the most appealing part of the trip for Annlee. She couldn't wait to get on the yellow bus! On the way home, though, she said the bus was hot and dirty and she was squished. She learned that the bus isn't all worth all the hype!

When we got there, we went on a hayride and the kids learned about farming and got to pick a pumpkin to take home with them.

We then went to the petting zoo section and the kids learned interesting things about the animals. Did you know that donkeys can hear sounds up to 3 miles away? And chickens have more bones in their necks than giraffes?

Then the kids got to feed the sheep out of their hands.

And they could crank this thing that sent a bowl of corn up to goats that were on a roof of a little building. Those goats would go crazy trying to get at those bowls of corn!

After that, we broke up into small groups and got to spend some time doing other activities that the farm offered. They had a spook trail, a corn maze, a playground, pony rides, a corn cannon, rubber duck races, and a cow train. My group, which was Annlee and two of her friends, picked the pony ride and cow train, then we had time for one quick slide on the playground.

Then it was time for a picnic lunch and the drive home. The kids were worn out, but they all seemed to have a great time!