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 Isabella, Halloween 2003

 Sabrina, Halloween 2007

Cousin Allison, Halloween 2011

Halloween

 We dressed as Hogwarts wizards for our church's Trunk or Treat on Saturday.

 Dressed for Trick or Treating.  The pumpkin is Brett's handiwork.

Post Trick or Treating picture from 2007.  Weren't they so cute, sweet and innocent? :-)

Butterly Pavilion

We visited the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster (between Denver & Boulder) with our cousins from North Carolina.  It was a great way to spend the day!!

She's reading!!

I have known it was coming.  I was trying to delay it, but I couldn't stop her.  Yesterday Sabrina read Go, Dog Go! to me, to Isabella and to her Dad.  Some of her reading is purely memorization of the words, but some of it she actually sounds out the words.  I have warned her possible Kindergarten teacher for next year that she is going to be trouble ;-)

Webelo Scout

Cousins

My children are blessed to be part of a family with lots of cousins.  They love being with their cousins!!

Quick Trip to Indiana

 The kids found themselves "beds" in the airport in case we missed our flight.

Hunter found this salamander in the woods.  We weren't allowed to let it go until we took a picture.

Tubing at the Rocky Grass Bluegrass Festival

Late August Camping trip

We snuck the kids out of school for a day to go camping and to follow the USA Pro Cycling Challenge.  My brother flew out for the week.  We camped and chased the cycling race around Colorado.  It was an awesome experience that we plan to repeat.

Volleyball

Isabella asked to try volleyball this fall.  I think it is a pretty challenging sport for 8 year olds, but she is giving it her best shot.  I realize that her eyes are closed in the second picture, but at least she was trying to hit the ball and not running from it.

Hunter, the Tiger Scout

Cross Country

Hunter is just left of center in the burgandy shirt.

He runs hard at each race.  He like the race, but would like it better if he

every race got a ribbon for finishing in the top 10 runners :-)

Orion is at the left in front.  Check out his tongue.  He is concentrating hard, but one day he's going to bite through his tongue.  Having done this myself, I try to convince to keep his tongue in his mouth.

Isabella's 8th Birthday (July)

My camera broke while we were in Indiana.  My mother-in-law let me use her camera, but instead of having the pictures on our hard drive, they are uploaded to Shutterfly.  I can't get the application from Shutterfly to upload the pictures to my blog - even though it says it is an option.  I'll work on it.  If anyone has any suggestions on how to get this feature of Shutterfly to work, please let me know.  Until then you will have to wait for pictures of my 8 year old girl!

Hunter's 6th Birthday (In June)

Sabrina's 4th Birthday (May)

 On Sabrina's actual birthday we took cupcakes to preschool

 This completes the Chuck E Cheese parties for our family. 

 All of our children have had their 4th birthday parties at Chuck E Cheese.