Spirit week!

Last week before Thanksgiving Break Lilly's school had spirit week :) The school week was only two days, so we only had two days of dressing up :)

The first day was "Sports Day"... well... Mike and I don't really play sports, or watch sports and didn't have ANY type of sport outfit, so Lilly came up with the idea of being a runner :) I thought her outfit was adorable! After school Lilly and Mike went on a jog too :) It was a really fun day for Lilly, she ran everywhere and kept her running stuff on all day.

The next day was "Spy Day" Lilly went undercover and dressed "like a normal kid." I gave her a little notebook and pencil to write her spying observations down on, she got a kick out of that!
Spirit week was a success and Lilly had a great time.

Emma Turned 2!

I can hardly believe that little Emma is two! Time is going so quickly... where did my little 3 pound baby go? :)
Emma is now 25 pounds (35%)
She is 34.5 inches tall (78%)
She is mostly caught up from being a preemie, and the pediatrician was very impressed with her vocabulary and also her ability to talk in 3-5 word sentences.
Emma can sing her ABC's, she can count to 13 and loves to do anything that her big sister does.
Her favorite book right now is the Biscuit book and also loves Good Night Seattle. (I keep telling Mike that she needs to go there and see Seattle for herself ;))
She also loves the t.v. show Super Why.
Her favorite letter of the Alphabet is E :)

Emma was so excited to open presents :) This was the gift from Lilly, Mom and Dad :)

Lilly made Emma a little note that she stuck to the present :) I'm so thankful that my girls have each other, sisters are the best!

Emma's birthday this year was Monkey themed. She LOVES monkeys so much.

For our party game we did barrel of Monkeys, this is Emma and her favorite cousin Jacob. The night before her party Mike asked Emma who she wanted to come to her party and the first person she said was Jacob :) Well, besides Mommy, Daddy and Lilly :)

Mike decorated Emma's cake this year, he did such a great job! It is really awesome to have such a creative husband that enjoys helping with things like this.

I think this picture is so cute of Emma blowing out her candles, she was really concentrating on it. Our little family is so lucky to have Emma, she is always full of energy and is really starting to develop a funny sense of humor with a bit of mischievousness :) We love you Emma!

The Rest of Halloween...

We had a scary fight with the stomach flu, a cold and overall sickness in our home the month of October so Halloween kind of wasn't as spooktacular as I wanted it to be, but it was still fun. Things are always so much fun with Emma and Lilly around, they are so awesome.

We woke up early the Sunday before Halloween (like 6:00 AM) to carve pumpkins...me at 6:00 AM is pretty frightening, so no pictures of me, just the cute ones :)
We didn't quite trust Emma with a knife this year, so she got to paint her pumpkin :) She did a great job.

Lilly sketched out her design for her pumpkin and Mike helped her carve it, they even added a bow, because it was a girl pumpkin :)

The final result :) Emma's pumpkin we grew in our garden, it was the only one to turn orange by Halloween so we had to buy one for Lilly.

Lilly and Emma helped me make Mummy Dogs for Halloween dinner, they thought they were delicious.

The girls on Halloween night :) Emma is Minnie Mouse, Lilly is Tinkerbell :)