Halloween Fun!

Halloween this year was full of activities and parties. We decided to all dress up this year as characters from Alice in Wonderland. Jarom was the Mad Hatter, I was the Queen of Hearts, Saige was Alice and Savannah was The Cheshire Cat.

On Wednesday we went to Our ward's Trunk or Treat and Carnival.

Here are the girls playing games.

Bean bag toss

The cake walk

fishing

Face painting

Trunk or Treat

The loaded pumpkins

On Friday we went to the Collierville Town Square for some trick or treating, only it was raining and very cold outside, so we only hit a few shops then went to...

Gymstars Halloween party.

The Cake walk

Pumpkin bowling

Swinging into the foam pit

Savannah hanging on the bars

Both girls hanging

Saige's favorite the balance beam

Savannah also tried it outThe bear walk on the parallel bars

On Saturday Halloween night we went to the Germantown Carnival. They had hot dogs, popcorn, drinks, games, bounce houses, and live music. It was the best party!

The bounce house

Fishing

Savannah caught one

ski ball

ring toss

Finally at 6:30PM we went to the Wright's house for a party and trick or treating.

The first house.

It was cold so Saige had to wear a jacket.

Some of our group that we went with. We really had a ton of fun this year and got a lot of use out of our costumes.

Until Next Year

Nashville

For school Jarom had to attend TANA(Tennessee Association of Nurse Anesthetists) in Nashville and I went with him. We had April (thanks again) watch the girls for us. This was our first trip away from the girls in 3 1/2 years. We needed it!
Jarom only went to a couple of classes, then we went to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory with Lance(a guy in his class) and his family. After that we went to the Opry Land Mall and did a little shopping.
For dinner we went to THE WILDHORSE SALOON. They have live music, dinning, country line dancing and pool. We had a blast! It has been a long time since we have gone out dancing. We are making it a point to go out more after this.
The stage.
Jarom learning the line dance.

Me dancing

The next day Jarom went to a couple more classes then we drove around Franklin and came home. Franklin was beautiful I would love to live there.

Pirddy Farms!

This year we went to Pirddy Farms Pumpkin Patch. We went on a hay ride, made scarecrows, and picked pumpkins.
Here are the girls and Jarom on the hay ride.
Savannah and me on the hay ride.

The girls looking for a pumpkin

Saige found one she likes

The girls and the pumpkin of their choice.

Savannah and her pumpkin
Saige and her pumpkin
waiting to go back after finding pumpkins

Happy Girls
A very cool play ship.
Making our scarecrows.

Savannah and her scarecrow
Saige and her scarecrow
We went with April, her kids and Nick. Here are the kids.

Our Visitors!

We have a big field in front of our condo and some deer live in the trees. We have seen as many as 6 out at one time. The girls love them. Here is a picture and a video of them from today.

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Naps!

My girls will no longer take naps for me. I try to put on a movie for quiet time and hope they fall asleep. That works about 25% of the time. I have found that if I need to run errands they will gladly fall asleep in the car. I hate to wake them up and be cranky, so I drive home and put them to bed. This means the errands are not done. I have to run my errands early to prevent this from happening.
Now if I want them to take a nap we go for a car ride. It works 100% of the time! I even bought them car pillows from Target for $2.50 to make them more comfortable.

SAIGE THE DANCER and GYMNAST

Saige is taking tap and ballet this year. The class is an hour long with 30 min of ballet and 30 min of tap. She looks so cute! Here are a few pictures from her first day.


Tap

She won a free month of gymnastics at gym stars and she is loving it. She said she likes it better than dance, so maybe next semester we will sign her up for gymnastics. Here are pictures from her first day.






Here are some video clips of her at the gym.

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Savannah's Potty Training Party!

It is official we are a diaper free home! Back in June I did a potty training party with Savannah.
We started off the morning with a new baby doll that can go potty. We trained her first than decided to try it.
Here is the treat tray she got to pick from when her or the baby went potty in the toilet.

When Savannah went she got to open a present too.

We played water balloons, did hair, make up, painted nails, played play dough, painted, colored, played toys and so much more through out the day.

Here she is getting a treat for using the potty.

and opening a gift.

The littlest Pet shop

Really she has been using the potty since January but was not consistent. Now she is completely potty trained even through the night. Good bye diapers!