Happy Birthday Aurora

After a long 10 hour drive to Twin Falls Aurora had a Texas Sheet cake waiting for her made especially by her Great Grandma Harris to celebrate her birthday. Lucky Girl! Yes -we drove to Twin Falls on her ninth birthday. Avery was more concerned about driving on her birthday than she was.

Her "friend" birthday party choice was Out of this World Pizza. I am convinced this is a perfect place for a party. The kids are entertained the whole time, there is the food option, the mess and prep was not at my house, in fact the only thing I did prep was her pizza birthday cake. We found out as we brought it in that only store bought items were allowed, but Alex the employee let it slide! Whew!

I am not quite sure why she isn't smiling, because she had way more than her quota of fun. She really loved helping me put together her pizza cake.

Happy Birthday Aurora!

The Japanese Encounter

Myah was elated when she had the opportunity to dress up at Epcot in a Kimono. As I went to check in for our dinner, Dave was hanging out with the girls in the Japanese gift store. When I left, the girls were ohhing and ahhing over the " Hello Kitty" paraphernalia, the origami and the amazing puzzles they had. We hadn't made it to the "pick your own pearl out of an oyster" or the whole kimono area yet. When I came back down to the gift store, Dave was in the very back with the girls and Myah was being pampered on by this cute girl from Japan. She even put an amazing hair comb and the cool flip flops on. We then went to dinner and had some amazing sushi and rolls and headed back down to the store-our girls couldn't get enough. We looked a little longer and tried to leave. As we are leaving both Aurora and Myah are begging to pick an oyster and get their own pearl out of it. They were completely mesmerized by this for about the last 10 minutes in the store. Usually at 7 and 8 we can persuade them out of "things", but Dave nor I were getting anywhere with our usual tactics. I honestly thought Myah was going have a nervous breakdown if she was not able to pick a pearl. We quickly walked back into the Japanese gift shop for the fourth time, paid for the pearls and then waited in line for a few minutes and then watched Aurora's and Myah's eyes light up as they picked their pearl. The top picture is the cute Japanese girl shucking the oyster. Whew, what a night!

A trip down South

To Disneyworld we went! Here are just a few pictures.

Aurora danced along main street with a very entertaining
group of singers and dancers!

Thank heavens for Walt Disney-As Dave said, "Maybe

Disney should govern our country! "

And of course at Epcot. The girls are wearing pin lanyards.

They had fine tuned the art of trading pins at Disneyworld by the time we left.

It was another great way to entertain our children by trading pins with cast member and other kids.

Plenty O' Patches

So we scoured the pumpkin patches again this year. Unfortunately we still have 7 large uncarved pumpkins sitting sadly on our front porch. We even had two grow in our garden from seeds I didn't plant. (Myah!) How this happened-I have know idea?

I love the picture of Avery trying relentlessly to push the wheelbarrow at Lakeview farms, but it was going nowhere with it's bum wheel. We managed to make it home with plenty of large pumpkins, about 20 "baby" pumpkins, farm fresh eggs, squash, more tomatoes and a five suckers and had to turn around and exchange pumpkins because we had the wrong one!

The Seamstress and a good example

Aurora attends a sewing class every Thursday. Here she is showing off one of her finished products. She has absolutely loved the class and is the sewer extraordinaire now. Some of her finished products are a pin cushion, a sewing bag, a stuffed pumpkin, a pillow case and she is currently working on pajama bottoms.

If you can't read it, the band on her hat says, "I can be a good example." Avery promptly changes her clothes after church every week. (heaven forbid she stay in a dress any longer than necessary) This week in her Sunbeams class they talked about being good examples. She cracked me up how she gently placed her headband on top of her favorite hat. She wears her favorite blue hat non-stop. It finally became "lost" for a few weeks!

A fiesty little player

Soccer girls

Myah is a hustler! She will run and run and run. Where she lacks in aggression, she makes up in her ability to run. She loves the social aspect of the sport and I love that the excercise partially wears my kids out.

If you can't tell Aurora is overheating! She had a game in Vernonia a couple of weeks ago and they played like crazy. Six kids showed up which is enough to play, but no subs. Compounding on that problem, it was about 92 that day. Her whole team did a great job, but lost the battle!