Halloween

Halloween was great but tiring! I miss the fun of walking from house to house...now it's dread :) Lauren decided she wanted to be a witch so I made her be a funky colorful witch. I made Kristen a little black kitty outfit to go with the witch.
We started out the day with a Halloween party at our next door neighbors house. Lauren stayed for a whole 20 min. before she wanted to come home because she didn't know most of the kids. Then my friend Aubrey and I and our girls headed to downtown Lewiston to trick-or-treat at all of the little shops. They blocked off four blocks for the little kiddos and holy cow what a turn-out! It was total chaos and every store had a line...we ended up getting candy from about five stores and bagged it! We did get some pictures taken of our girlies at a photo studio for 2 cans of food they would donate to the local food bank. Pretty sweet deal! I'll get the picture back tomorrow and post it. Then we went for some dinner and then on to the Trunk-or-Treat at the church. We made a haul there and then decided we hadn't tortured ourselves enough so we took the girls door to door on Aubreys culdesac. We hit prob. 12 or more homes and I was spent! Then on to Nana's house to top off the night with some spoiling :)

A new post...finally :)

Life here in Lewiston, Idaho has been treating us well. We've had lots of fun hanging with friends and family, playing on and in the river, fishing, visiting family and friends, and Cory in Seattle, getting settled in to a school routine, etc. Lauren is liking Kindergarten a lot. Her teacher is sweet and there is always a group of cute little girls running up to our van to greet Lauren as she is getting out.
I have way to many pictures to post on here of the last couple of months so I was lazy and posted them on Facebook. Loading pictures on here annoys me anyway so I only ever do a select few.
I also decided it was time for me to get back in the habit of blogging since I was asked to teach a class on it next week! Hah...I'm such a slacker!
Cory has been able to come home and see us almost on a weekly basis lately. It hasn't turned out to be such a bad thing driving 5 hours each way. We always love it when he is here!
Well, not much else is new. I'll be posting again once I have something blogworthy to write about!
Here are Lauren's school pictures...I have the disc with the copyright so I can print as many as I want. I'm so happy I didn't get the package deal so I would have a million pictures laying around! Grandparents and loved ones, let me know what size you want and I'll make a trip to Costco. Her little grin is cheesy but she is still my beautiful little girl!

The first day of Kindergarten

Well, Lauren is officially a school girl! She had her first day of Kindergarten today. It was only a half an hour long while the parents met with the principal Mr. Reese. Lauren's teacher is Mrs. Jacks. She's nice! She will only be teaching for the first quarter while Lauren's official teacher Mrs. Stevenson is on maternity leave. Lauren seemed to like it. She is in the class with one of her best friends since birth Hailey. I had a momentary breakdown last night with tears and all thinking of the end of an era...not as much freedom anymore, schedules, my little girl growing up, etc. But today I woke up excited! Lauren woke me first thing this morning asking to get dressed for school, and she already had her backpack on and stuffed full of our books from home hah! She's in the afternoon class though so she had to wait a few hours. We're so proud of our little Lauren!!!

Kristen's first trip to the E.R.!

Had to take Kristen to the Children's Hospital E.R. today. I pulled her up on to Lauren's bed to change her diaper and heard a "pop". She started screaming and then continued to cry every time she moved her arm! The doctor said she had "Nursmaid's elbow" where a ligament slips to the wrong side of the elbow. A simple twist of the arm and she was back to good! Now you wouldn't know anything was ever wrong. Amazing!

My baby is 2!

I can't believe she's 2! I still feel like she's such a baby, even though she's such a big girl in some ways.
Here is a little list of the things Kristen likes these days:

*books, books, and more books!

*babies

*putting on her own shoes (99% of the time on the wrong foot of course!)

*picking out the lint between her toes (apparently this runs in the fam, Lauren did the same thing)

*dressing up as a princess

*Broccoli (thank goodness!)

*Doggies, except when they get too close!

*Being mean to Lauren...It's a constant battle!

*She used to just sleep with her Blankie and her froggie "Ribbit" but now she seems to add a new friend to the crib weekly. Now it's also 3 babies, her big blue stuffed bunny (it's bigger than her, and most nights she sleeps with it right on top of her) and her pink doggie.

*singing, her latest favorite is also Lauren's favorite, Love Story by Taylor Swift. They sing it all of the time, someday I'll get it on video :)

We sure do love our little pint-sized girl! Happy Birthday Kristen!

She's almost ready!

Lauren and I went school supply shopping...for the first time! She will be starting Kindergarten in Lewiston in the end of August. She will be going to the same school as I did! She hasn't been excited about the prospect and when I mention it she even says "I'm not excited". haha
Well, then we found out this last week that our good friends the Reese's got the home they wanted and now their daughter Hailey, one of Lauren's best friends ever, is going to be in her class!!! Now Lauren is getting more excited about this whole school thing FINALLY!
Here's a shot of our little school girl showing off her "My Little Pony" backpack.

shirt recycling

I took a long sleeved shirt of mine that was ill-fitting and turned it in to a dress for Lauren. I also took an old long sleeved shirt of Lauren's and re-fashioned it in to a sleeveless, sassy shirt for Kristen. I saw the idea on this blog here and couldn't wait to start. I forgot to take before pictures, so here are the afters! My ruffles aren't perfect but it was my first try. What cute girlies!