Halloween 2012!

Last year, my brother and his wife started the tradition of going to their house and having a potluck Halloween dinner in their garage/driveway and then going trick-or-treating in their neighborhood with the whole family.  It is so much more fun to be able to enjoy the holidays with all of the aunts, uncles, cousins and grandmas.  This year all 3 girls went trick-or-treating and Jacob and I were so happy with how polite they were.  They had a lot of fun, despite crying at some of the houses.  I am so lucky to have such wonderful family who help to make my children's holidays so special.  Shout out to Mike and Courtney, MB and Nathan and both Grandmas for taking turns taking all of our children trick-or-treating.  We love you all!  By the way, aren't they the cutest little bugs you ever did see??

 

I need to add in the story of our little "bug" here.  We put her in the bowl of candy so we could take a picture of her like that but no matter how hard we tried, we could not get her to look at the camera for even a second.  She was just too enthralled with the candy.  My kind of girl!!

Dance Class

In August I decided that it was time to sign the girls up for some sort  of activity and since I love dance, and Maddie is too young to participate in anything else, dance it was!  The girls have been loving it!!  They are each in their own class but they are one right after the other so it works out really nice.  They have a great teacher and they seem to be doing pretty well.  Maddie is definitely her own person so sometimes she follows the teacher and sometimes she does her own thing.  Emma follows the teacher the whole time, as expected from her.  They are so different!  Here are some great pics of them that we got to take.