Art!

Last week held a lot of art enrichment for us girls. First I attended a painting session with a girlfriend and created this "masterpiece". My only regret is that I wasn't exactly following the painting that everyone else was and didn't realize that middle ground flowers should have been painted before foreground, so I had to leave those out, but you live and learn I guess. My next one will be twice as good...maybe. Here is my painting.


And here is the painting the teacher was leading most other people in...



I also had Tim and the girls help with painting some of the equipment the bridge group was using in our office putt-putt fund raiser. Tim splatter painted a return box and Annie fell in love with how beautiful it was. Incidentally, I fared very well in the putt-putt challenge - first place ya'll! And our hole was voted second best, loosing out to a Halloween themed hole. Whatever, it's not even Halloween yet. Anywho, here is a photo of our putt-putt hole.


Since Annie thought the splatter painted box was so great, I decided to let her and Olivia have a go at it. Super fun! And as soon as I remember to buy more paint (we ran out soon after Olivia decided to smear it all over her body), we are definitely going to do it again.

Scissor Ban is in Effect!

So, you might recall from earlier in the week how Olivia fashioned some new bangs. On Friday she decided to make some modifications. As a result, we decided to take her to the professional hair stylists to see what could be done. Her answer - not much. Here are the before and after photos.

Olivia's First Haircut

Olivia decided to give herself a new look with some self cut bangs this morning. I actually think it turned out pretty good! Look at her trying to wave off the paparazzi!

Farmers for a day

Yesterday we headed out to the country to help with the harvest. Miller Farms was having a harvest festival and for a small fee, they would load you into a wagon and pull you around the farm to pick whatever you could find. We ended up with a lot of whatever you could find and now we're thinking the small fee might include the purchase of a freezer and a lot of canning supplies! In the end we got 3 bags of onions, 2 bags of beets, 4 heads of cabbage, 3 bags of potatoes, 5 bags of sweet corn, some turnips (I think), 3 bags of random peppers, one of which we traded for a bag of tomatoes, a bunch of acorn and butternut squash, about 20 pounds of carrots, and 3 giant pumpkins. Anyone know what to do with beets...are you really supposed to eat them?

After we cleared the fields, we went back to check out the rest of the place. They had a giant pyramid of hay bales to climb, random trackers, old fire trucks and airplanes to climb on, bucket train rides, the world's largest bouncy house, and Annie (sporting her new tattoo) even found her best-est friend ever.

Look at my Baby being all 2 and a half...

School is in!

Both the girls are back in school now. Annie goes to preschool on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and Olivia goes in the mornings on Monday and Wednesday. What does this mean? It means Tim and I can go back to having our lunch dates!!! Or maybe not.

Annie was practically scratching at the door a few weeks ago to get back to school. I think she really missed being around kids her own age over the summer. So now she might be overloaded with kids her own age with school starting and also being on the Sparkling Volcanos Soccer Team.

Olivia's first day of school was today and we were really worried that she wouldn't adjust well. We took her to met her teachers and check things out last Friday and she just clung to my leg the whole time and didn't want to play with any of the other kids. Today I picked her up and her teachers told me she had a great day and didn't cry once and they also said that she was so smart. That's our girl! Super Smarty! Went we were walking out of the school, she kept showing me things and telling me, "This is my school!" so I think she really liked it.

Annie's First Soccer Game

Yesterday we attended Annie's first soccer game. Currently she plays on the Sparkling Volcanos team, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see her sign on with the Colorado Rapids in the next year or so.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!