Roller Skating

My niece Emma had a roller rink party for her 11th birthday, and 20, maybe 25 years ago, I really enjoyed roller skating, so I was excited to take my girls!  I wouldn't say that I was as good as I was 25 years ago, but I did manage to stay on my feet, (except for one small incident when I first put the skates on) and I think with a little practise I could get back there!

 

I only had my cell phone, and it was dark in the rink, but I snapped a few pictures anyway, because I just couldn't help but document my girls first time on roller skates!

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It was also a moustache party!

 

I know this one is totally blurry, but it's the only action shot I got of Claire, she was a little pro with her vintage fisher price skates with locking front wheels, I think she needs her own pair!

 

So fun, we definitely need to start having family skate nights!

Cookies

We made a quick day trip home to celebrate Emma's birthday, and the girls were lucky enough while we were there to get to see their Great Grandma and have her teach them to make sugar cookies!

 

 

This picture of Claire helping Grandma roll out the cookie dough just melts my heart!  I know what a pain it was to roll out with my little helper holding one side of the rolling pin, but Grandma just smiled and let her help and I'm so happy to have this picture of it!

 

Making special memories with their Grandma that I know my girls will treasure forever!

Claire

She is so into being my "helper" lately!  All day long she asks what she can do to help me, especially if I'm in the kitchen!

 

She loves to help with baking-

 

and she always makes sure Bella has water in her dish-

Such a sweet girl!  I don't know what I'm going to do without her next Fall when she starts preschool!

Pictures 2012

Halloween Party

One of my friends who happens to have a little Claire of her own passed down this Halloween shirt to Claire!

 

She wore it to the Halloween party we had with the Benests!  All the kids made their own pumpkin shaped pizza-

 

 

They made a witches brew-

 

and drank it through fun straws-

 

There weren't too many pictures of the party, because the kids were running around and playing and having fun the whole time!  They had a great Halloween!

 

 

Leaves

Living in newer construction, we're lacking big mature trees in our neighborhood, so the girls were super excited to get down to Kansas to visit their uncle Joey and find his yard filled with leaves!  The weather was perfect and they spent the better part of the afternoon just playing in the leaves!

 

Claire hiding from the big girls during a leaf fight-

 

 

 

 

And a couple with instigram edits-