Ballerina Girl

Happy Birthday!!

E turned three this past weekend!
She's showing 3 fingers (in case you couldn't tell).
Check out her cute outfit. She chose it.

Ballet slipper pinata

and birthday balloons!! E was so excited to have balloons for her party.

L enjoyed the balloons as well.

My two ballerinas

First Game: Pass the ballet slipper

Musical chairsCousins

Ballerina cousins

Pinata time!

E blows out candles on her ballet slipper cake

Birthday presents

E models her new ballet outfit

Thanksgiving

Since our turkey meal was to be on Saturday this year, we were able to spend the actual Thanksgiving day in a non-traditional way. I was so excited because I have wanted to do this for so long, yet it's never worked out.

We had the opportunity to serve at Mission Arlington. Here we are ready to go.
We stood in line with lots of other people also waiting to serve. After about 1 1/2 hours we were given our assignment.
We gathered the turkeys and food boxes and delivered them to two different houses. It didn't seem like much, but I'm so glad we got to participate as a family!

Keeping busy in November

We have been so blessed to be part of a homeschool group. They normally do one kid day a month. However, this month they slipped in an extra day, a Pumpkin Party! L was at school so D and E got to participate.

The first activity was decorating cookies. I was so glad to see they could eat the frosting and sprinkles. So,
I let them decorate and then

lick off the frosting. They were in heaven!!

We played hot "pumpkin" and D was the first one in the middle.

Then some pumpkin bowling followed by...

Mini "pumpkin" golf and to end it all

Parachute pumpkins!

Next activity was just for L...a POW WOW at her school!

This is the Turtle Class (L is on the front row on the left).

L was so excited when she walked into the pow wow.

She then sat with her clas and learned about the Indians. At the end her class did the cutest turkey song!

Then, just today, we went to a First Thanksgiving Feast. This was with our Homeschool Group and the idea was to recreate the first thanksgiving with foods they would have used, games they would have played and clothes they would have worn.

D chose to be an Indian Chief.

E poses with her Indain headdress.

L wore her Indian attire from her pow wow. All the kids got to make a "toss and catch" game that the pilgrims and/or Indians would likely have played.

Shreek on the Creek

Our church provides a Halloween Alternative called Shreek on the Creek. The kids were so excited to be able to attend again this year. We were so excited becuase this year we invited some neighbors (who have a boy just one year younger than D and he and D are becoming friends...what an anwer to prayer!!) The neighbors went and enjoyed the event just as we did.

All dressed up!
L was so pleased to be Belle!

E had a tough time waking up from nap and being rushed to bathe, dress and eat so we could run out the door to church. She also had no recollection of last year so she was a bit apprehensive.

My forever soccer player!!

At church the kids got their faces painted, much to my surprise. They had a list of choices and when I asked E what she wanted she said an orange. Well, I'm still not sure if she really wanted an orange and just settled for an orange cat or if I just misunderstood.

L had the most precious ladybug!

D, my patriotic boy!

Since I stayed at church to help out, Papi brought everybody home and even took a picture of their face painting! I was so pleased! Then he had to "rush" them off to bed! He is the best!

Sea World

We had the opportunity to go to Sea World and we had a blast!!

This is the family photo from the beginning of the day (contrasted with the one from the end of the day at the end of this post).
Kiddos at park entrance ready to start the day.

Papi and kiddos.

D on the Shamu Express.

L and Papi on the Shamu Express.

The girls had so much fun playing in Shamu's Happy Harbor.

E climbs the ropes and then

goes down the slide. She said this was her favorite part of the day.

Papi helps the girls up.

E watches the Shamu Show...I love her crossed legs.

Eating and waiting for the show.

Family Photo at the end of the day...not everyone is as happy as at the start of the day.

E walks out of Sea World as we head to the car at the end of a very long, fun-filled, busy day!