Wedding Pictures

So it was a beautiful day!! All went well. The girls were beautiful, Annelise was a dream and Paul was grinning ear to ear pretty much the whole day. Oh and the cake...ROCKED!!! sorry, got a little excited there, but hey I have to toot my own horn a little :) There was only one thing missing and you know who you are... we love you and missed you today.

Wedding Cake

I know that this may not excite you as much as it excites me, but I am so excited about this wedding cake!! Paul and Annelise asked me to make their wedding cake, so that is what I've been doing all week. I was so grateful to a friend who told me not to try and do it all in one day. Now that I am done I think I would have died had I done that! So tomorrow is the Big Day, and I am done the cake. So I thought I would share some of the process of making it with anyone who cares :) After tomorrow I will post pictures of the cake all set up!! I just hope it doesn't fall over or suffer a major disaster in transport...

Ok so here is the finished product. I think for my first attempt at a wedding cake it turned out pretty good.

Abby's Watching Day

Today was Abby's watching day for dance. This is such a happy day for me because I only get to watch 2 or 3 practices a year. So I really enjoy it. This is her second year in dance, and it's so neat to see how much she has learned since last year. It's so amazing how fast she has grown. Anyway here are some of the pictures I took.


Exercises at the bar, I think she is doing a "shuffle step"












"Jump out Jump in" Abby is front left. Her friend Ayva is front right with the cute leg warmers. And her other friend Hunter is in the back. (Friends from church)


For the last 15 minutes of class they do ballet. They are so cute doing their little twirls.

Trick or Treat!

Dyane and John came over this year to take the girls Trick or Treating with my kids. We told the kids that they had to wait until 6pm to start. They were all dressed up and ready to go by 5pm. It was the longest hour in history while we all watched the clock waiting for "the Dads" to say they were ready to go. So at 6pm on the dot the kids started on there route around the block with Dave and John in toe. So an hour later they all came back with bags full of candy!! Oh the joys of Halloween. It was also a very nice day, notice no snow and no winter coats!

Justin's a Scout

Now that Justin is 11 he has moved up from Cubs to Scouts. He has worked hard to memorize the Scout Law, Promise and Motto. Last Tuesday he was invested into Scouts officially! Of course I forgot to bring my camera!! So I guess we will have to wait until the first awards ceremony to take pictures of his Scout group.

Pumpkin Carving

Today for Family Home Evening we carved our pumpkins. It's funny because every year is starting to be the same... Mckay always watches from a distance and every once and a while runs out gagging because he thinks the guts are gross. I think it was two years ago that he actually threw up. Of course Dave does his best to gross out the kids. Emma starts out a little scared and cries when she first gets the "guts" on her. Then ten minutes later she is up to her elbow inside the pumpkin. Justin gets bored and starts throwing seeds and guts at everyone. Abby supervises the whole process and I take the pictures:) I gota say, I love every minute of it!

Notice Mckay is sitting as far as he can away from the table:) Abby wasn't too sure at first this time either.

Dave doing his best to gross the kids out. Poor Abby.

The finished product! Mckay and Abby don't mind them when all the guts are scraped out :)
It's a little blury but here they are all lit up, ready for Halloween!!

Abby's Preschool Halloween Party

Today was Abby's Halloween party at school. It was so fun because I happend to be the parent helper today too! So I got to stay for the whole thing. The kids had so much fun. They made skeleton pictures with Q-tips. Spider webs and colored pumpkin pictures. They did a costume parade around the building that the preschool is in. They went down the halls shouting "Happy Halloween"!! They were so cute! Abby dressed up as the Island Princesses, Rossella. She also brought her matching barbie for show and tell. Everyone told her what a beautiful princess she was. I had one mom come up to me and tell me she thought Abby was the most beautiful girl... I gota say I was a little proud of my sweet Abby. Anyway enough bragging, here's some pictures...