Fall Festival/Halloween Party

Girlie's school had their Fall Festival/Halloween Party today. She went dressed as a Fairy and Bitty went dressed as a puppy! :) Mom and I were lucky enough to attend. The kids had a blast but man those teachers are a blessing, I could not do that all day!

My beautiful babe!

They had two pinatas and she was such a good hitter that they let her go first the second time! She kept hitting and hitting and hitting that thing - think she's got some pent up anger :/



Her teacher, Ms. Tawana, got in on the action too! So much fun!



When it broke the kids didn't really go rushing, they had to tell them too and then they were very selective about what they picked up. Girlie was very selective and only picked up the things she liked! lol

See her checking out the loot before putting it in her bag? LOL

Then it was time for lunch! Mom and I prepared all their plates while they broke the pinata! They had the cutest little ghost shaped sandwiches! Her and her friends!

Girlie loved that we brought Bitty Baby along and she was telling her friend MJ that he could hold her! :) SO SWEET!

I'll be going to get her to trick or treat at work soon! She'll be a pirate then! Many costume changes today! Then we'll trick or treat at home! SUCH FUN TIMES!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!

The Halloween Festivities continue

Carving pumpkins is so much fun and ICKY too! Sydney was lovin' the icky parts as well as the fun! She drove right in and was up to her elbows in pumpkin' guts LOL

"See a seed Momma!"
"What's this?"

"Oh this is neat!"

Our smilie face (Sydney chose this)

She can't wait to see it at night lit up! She's so excited about everything today and so tired already!

She keeps saying "Momma put a candle in it!"

SO CUTE! I love having a kid. It makes me acting like one not seem so outrageous LOL

Gearing up for Halloween!

I'm so excited for Halloween (I've mentioned that before here). We did our first "Halloweeny" type thing on Friday evening with Henry & Family at the Nashville Zoo. Their annual Halloween event is "Ghouls at Grassmere" and it's so much fun!

Our pirates!! H & Girlie had a blast and looked fantastic! The cutest kids there BY FAR :)


Girlie getting a treat! I have to say that this year they gave away much nicer things than last! It's really a big advertisement for some companies that participate but it's FUN!


Our second big Halloween thing was creating our pumpkins. We aren't finished with them yet (will be carving one tomorrow - nothing like waiting til the last minute) but we had these neat Mr. Potato head type things for our other pumpkins. Girlie LOVED them and enjoyed picking out what went on each pumpkin.

Then I had a little fun with the pumpkin decorations too! :)

It's funny how things have changed since I was a kid. We NEVER had mr potato head decorations for our pumpkins! What's the world coming too? LOL

Patty Cake Patty Cake - Er - I mean Patty Bread!

Girlie's school usually provides lunch, however, today they had to bring their own lunch and in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness they asked kids to bring their favorite pink lunch! Well, being the overdoer I am I had to go all out!!
She had pink applesauce, pink tinted ranch dip for her carrots, pink lemonade, pink mac & cheese and Nannie even made pink bread for her sandwich!

I had dinner out with Stephanie last night and when I got home I came home to this!!!!

Having a little too much fun with flour!

Although she really did help Mom out!

And we even had flour footprints in our living room!

The end result was the cutest pink lunch you've ever seen!!!!

And some of the cutest bread animals EVER!! That are pink marble inside! LOL

It's so much fun being a mom!!!

Graffiti Artist!

I've always wanted to paint a wall with chalkboard paint. ALWAYS! I FINALLY DID IT!
I painted Girlie a space in her play area that she can be a graffiti queen!! She loves it so much! Some people say I'm just giving her permission to write on the walls, but I'm actually ok with that! LOL

Us painting it!

She loves it so much!

D-I-V-A!!

I always knew Girlie was a diva, but she took the cake on Saturday!
She did have an adorable outfit on but when I said "ok, let me take your picture" and this is how she posed, I lost it! Talk about in trouble! I'm so in for it!!

I mean heck she does look adorable but does she have to KNOW it so much?

Yo Ho Yo Ho a Pirate's life for me!!

Ahoy Mateys!!
Halloween is nearing and this year, as you might have guessed from this blog title, Girlie is going to be a Pirate!
I love Halloween. It's always been one of my favotire holidays. The costumes, the spooky music, the going to a stranger's door and taking their candy (oh wait, that doesn't really sound appealing when I put it that way lol) THE CANDY!!! :)

Thanks to Nannie, she has the rockinest (yes I made that a word) pirate costume that ever was! Oh we're so lucky that Nannie's a whiz on the sewing machine! She's the best!

She is excited about being a Pirate and already has down her "ARRGGGHHH!!" as you can clearly see in the pic below - movements and all!




With Polly the Parrot! Look at this face, it cracks me up!





Never really seen an elated pirate, but shiver me timers she's so cute!

Make sure and batten down the hatches for now - we'll be back with more after Halloween!

Walden Farm 2008

Every year since Girlie was born we have gone to Walden Farms to fill our pumpkin patch longings!
It's such a cute place and they have the neatest stuff for kids to do! We love the people there too!! This year was no exception on fun!

She had a blast. She did face painting, corn maze, sand art, the hayride and MUCH MUCH MORE!
I can't believe we've gone there for 4 years now!


SOOOOOOOOOO much fun! See for yourself...

Her dress was another Nannie creation! THANK YOU NANNIE! We love it!