Fall festival

We headed to our church Fall Festival this afternoon....we are definitely getting plenty of opportunities for Halloween dress up!!!

run away bride!

Emory L.O.V.E.D the bounce house SO much that I had to climb in to get her out!(not a pretty sight:):)

We saw our friends, The Nations ,and their little pumpkin! I wish Emory had her pumpkin costume on....what a cute picture that would have been!!

Christian with her friends, Hudson and Lydia. When I asked Hudson to go stand by Christian to take a picture he was slowly trying to grab her hand. You can't see, but they are holding hands! His mommy told him that Christian was dressing up as a bride and he told her he was going to be put on his black outfit!!!

graffiti and photo shoot

So, this morning we had A LOT to do to get ready for church. Of course, we didn't set our alarm b/c the girls usually wake us up, but today they slept in. So, when Bryan and I finally woke up, we began the process of getting ourselves ready, bathing the girls (put it off last night and never got around to it), dressing the girls, breakfast, bags packed, etc.... Then Emory decided to do a little graffiti on our hallway wall! At least the marker didn't get on her new dress, I guess!
Then to add to the madness, I decided we needed pictures b/c everyone looked so clean and pretty.

Emory. My sweet sweet Emory. You're giving me a run for my money!!!:):) But I love you even more for it! You know exactly what you want!

And I know exactly what I need......to purchase The Strong Willed Child and to remember that you and CC are TWO totally different girls!

Bryan is happy

A women at his work said it best...."A man in a suit driving a truck.....mmmm- it dun't get any better than that!"

storytime and a sneak peek

Here is Emory's Halloween costume debut.....our little (tired) pumpkin!!!
We went to the The Market to do a little shopping. They also had a story time with Clifford where all the kids could wear their costumes and participate in a Halloween craft. Emory and CC loved it when Clifford walked in! But Emory only wanted to see him from afar! Hopefully she'll warm up to the idea of grown adults in costumes since she'll be meeting Santa in a few months:):)Christian is a bride for Halloween and looks adorable in her wedding dress and veil. She would even wear the veil in front of her face.

Emory quickly cheered up when she got a big cookie from Edgar's!

Pumpkin Carving and meltdowns

(aren't their shirts cute!? My aunt Pat sent them to the girls. They wore them to school and go so many compliments...THANKS Pat!- we love you!)

We carved our pumpkins we got from the pumpkin patch! We colored them to kill time before Daddy was ready to join us. I was really looking forward to doing our pumpkins b/c I remembered how much Christian LOVED doing our first pumpkin (yet another reason not to compare our kids!)
Emory hated EVERY SINGLE SECOND! I'm not sure if she was running-on-empty or what! But she just cried and cried and cried. She started as soon as Bryan started cutting, she became devastated!

She hated all the gooey stuff!

It must have been an 'off' night b/c nothing made her happy. She finally decided that we weren't getting the hint and walked herself to her room and waited for us to put her to bed!

Maybe next year will go a little better!

The finished products-- cute, huh?!

STAR student

Christian is the star student this week!

We (I) made this fabulous poster to show off her life to her class. She also gets to bring in her favorite book to read, 2 things of her choice to show off (1. pennies that she has flattened with a design on them from Gatlinburg and Disney World), wear her favorite color one day, and bring a special snack that begins with the letter of the week (Fig Newtons). She loves it!

Safari ride

We headed home for the weekend to visit with my cousin, Courtney, who flew in from Texas. We were all excited to see her!
We headed to the pine mountain aimal safari . It's a fun, dirty time! You drive in this old, gross, zebra painted van that moves 5 mph.

This was the first thing that we saw driving in!!!!

and instantly Emory did this! She was not too fond of this whole experience. I was sort of bummed b/c I thought she would love it! I am slowly realizing why they say to never compare your kids! My two couldn't be more different. When we took Christian at 18 months, she loved EVERY SECOND of it! Not Emory. She just wasn't in to it at all and wanted nothing to do with the animals.

She finally loosened up, sat with Gran and looked at hte animals.

Christian copying the animals.

Emory copying CC.

Hello!

Then we went to dinner with Courtney, March, Sam, and Andrew. We had such a fun weekend!