Feels like a non-stop party here.
The Wednesday before Halloween, we woke up to a pretty scary site: SNOW. Maybe 2 inches covered everything we could see. It was actually kind of glorious for us. The kids didn't believe me that they would want hats, coats, and gloves. I succeeded with the coats. We headed out after breakfast to make a snowman, and ended up making a SNOW MONSTER!!!!! (cue: Roaring)
Clark shows how scary it is. (note two things: His poor frozen hands with icey white knuckles, and the sweet carrot that came out of my parent's garden with three prongs)
Later that morning I looked out the window to see how our monster was faring and I found him laughing maniacally. Seriously, he was waaaaay in character. All the snow was gone by that afternoon, leaving only a lump of ice and leaves where SnowMonster had been.
I had this great idea that the kids and their cousins could all be Toy Story characters, and all the other cousins were thrilled because it is their favorite movie (especially Anna, it is her favorite "in her heart" --she's 2). Then my kids decided that they wanted to be deer. (cue: trombone sliding out) Wa wa waaaaaah. But they are dear little deer. After living at the Shipleys, they have become fascinated with deer. Clark wanted to be a buck and Eva wanted to be a buck-fawn. Not really sure how that works, but she pulled it off.
I totally love this picture
Meanwhile, Baby Myra and Baby Eliza were still rolling with the Toy Story theme. Good work on the hats, LJ!
Which brings us to the next dress up occassion: Myra was blessed on Saturday at my parent's home. She did great. So did Ben. Thanks to everyone for coming to support her!
Myra is named after this lovely woman's mother. She even looks like her Grandma Francisco!
So that brings us to the present. We'll check in again in two weeks (when my little sister Emily gets home from her mission!)
