Fall Pictures of our Cuties

For Christmas cards this year we just wanted to take pictures of the girls. So one day after work, Cade and I got the girls ready and walked down the pathway in our backyard to these pretty vines that look really cool in the fall. Luckily the girls will do anything for a sucker :). AND...it's sure helps to have Cade there with me getting them to smile. Reese actually cooperated for almost 10 whole minutes! Love these cuties!!!

Halloween and Fall Fun

We have had SO much fun this fall! Since being released from Young Women's it's seeemed like we've had a lot more time to do fun things as a family and Cade and I have really enjoyed being able to both do a lot with our girls together. This first picture I had to put in here :). This is Cade's second year participating in our Youth's activity "Where's Waldo?" He does such a great job disguising himself. Someone in our ward said, "Cade is like a chameleon! He can change his appearance so well and become whoever he wants!" I agree...he can look like anyone he wants. The best part of his change this time was his kitty shirt. And all the youth LOVED it and thought he was so cool :).

We went to a pumpkin patch and went on a hayride with the girls. Reese didn't know if she liked the hayride, but picking out our pumpkins was really fun! We also had the girls paint pumpkins, Cade carved pumpkins and I made pumpkin sugar cookies. It was a really fun night.

The weekend before Halloween, we had Grandpa Close come visit us and both girls LOVED seeing him and just having fun. Emma really didn't want to leave his side the entire time. It was so cute!
Cade and Grandpa got to go to a BYU game together and spend a whole lot of time hanging out.

THEN, the week of Halloween Grandma Close came to visit! Her visit was planned for months. Grandpa coming the weekend before for the game was kind of last minute, but their plans didn't collide together so we got some extra time with them! We got to do lots of fun things with Grandma. We played at Castle Park, went to Daddy's work Halloween party, rode the Nightmare Express train in Lindon, got to carve pumpkins and trick or treat. It was great!

For Halloween this year Cade was a wizard and i was a witch. Both girls were of course, princesses :). I REALLY wanted Reese to wear the Nemo costume that Emma wore 2 years ago, but she would NOT have it! She was determined that she was going to be Snow White (again). That's what she was last year too. Reese had to be a pretty princess just like her older sister. Emma's favorite part of her costume was her red hair just like Ariel :). She walked around just as if she was a princess.

These pictures were at the Fishbowl Halloween Trick or Treat. We love this tradition because it gives them one extra day to dress up and it's inside so you can actually see all the costumes without coats on. 

Boose-Boose wore her poodle PJ's that she brought back from Europe :). That's what is awesome...it's not a costume..just something "normal" that Boose wears!

Getting ready to ride the haunted train with Grandma!

The got to dress up for dance class the week of Halloween as well as for preschool where they got to do a little parade :).

The girls had SO much fun trick or treating around the neighborhood. It was me that got too tired to keep going this year. Being pregnant, wearing high-heels and carrying Reese for part of the time just did me in!

Emma loved running into her friends during the night. The best costume was her friend Berklee...a devil :). It was SO funny and like her mom said, "fits her perfectly". Hillarious!

One of my best friends, Sarah Robinson. We don't work in the Young Women's together anymore so we don't see each other two to three times a week anymore. Love her to death!

Halloween night was sure a lot of fun! Unfortunately, it had to end with Reese falling off a chair with a sucker in her mouth and getting blood all over :(. Kind of fitting for the holiday, but was so sad!

And just for kicks, I had to add these pictures of the "Nacho Libre" gang in Santa Barbara. I'm so glad Kristen and Andrew decided to have Jaxon be Nacho Libre. SO funny!

Starting Preschool! (And dance class)

 

Emma is growing up so fast! She started preschool this year in August at Learning Dynamics. I looked around at several preschools and finally we decided to put her in Learning Dynamics in Orem. It is farther than many other schools around us, but Cade really wanted her to go there because of their focus on reading and phonetics. So far we love it and are very happy with her there. Emma absolutely LOVES going to preschool. She has never once said, "I don't want to go to school." She loves her teacher Mrs. Holmes and all of her classmates. Here are some pictures of her first day of school!

With Daddy the night before school. She got her first school blessing :)

She was so excited for her first day!

Mrs. Holmes helping Emma find her name...

She came out just as happy as she went in.

Emma also started dance class this fall. She was really excited at first, but after two or three classes she told me she didn't want to go anymore. I kept her in and she now loves it! Her teacher mentioned that sometimes kids this age aren't used to working their bodies hard and sometimes don't like that. I'm glad i kept her in because after 2 and 1/2 months, she really likes going now. In December, she will have a Holiday recital and it will be so fun to watch her and her class perform :).