Littles Night of Fun!

Ever since my sister and David have been married, they've given Maddie and Jack a "Night of Fun" for Christmas! This was the third year that M&J headed off with Aunt & David for their much anticipated night, but it was the first year that sweet Chapman was around to probably cramp their style. Hence, "Littles Night of Fun" at Aunt Jen's! Now remember we're talking about a 1 and 2 year old. Chapman arrived about an hour before bed, it was dark and cold outside, and we had one carseat. So our night consisted of a little playing, jammies, a bedtime story, and off to bed! We did get to do a little more playing on Saturday morning too, and we had LOTS of fun!!



Claire we tap on the drum, not Chappy!


This is fun!!








Almost ready for bed! So sweet!


Good morning! Ready for breakfast!




Chappy, I'm going to read you a story!


Claire, I'd rather look at this remote.


No, Chappy. I'm READING to you.


Seriously, look at the book!


O.K., O.K. I'm looking.


I like this book!


Now head on over to Alli's blog to see what the bigs were up to!!

I'm thankful for...

my precious 2 year old who made this cutie turkey in school today! She was so proud of each little handprint. Handprints which will just get bigger. A wonderful reminder to me to cherish this stage which will be gone so quickly. She may be getting molars, she may be learning to scream when she doesn't get her way, and she may want to do everything "my byself", but she also yuvs me soo much, thinks things are "precious", and wants me to "hold you" all the time! I love this sweet girl!

2nd Grade Presents...

The Magical World of Disney. Tonight was Jack's 2nd grade program. Each song was from a different Disney movie, and each class dressed for a different song. Jack's class song was "It's a Small World." Being the world travelers that we are, we had tons of international children's attire laying around!! Thank you to Uncle David for finding us a poncho and sombrero in the Watermark skit closet! Here are a few pictures from the night!





Let's see how many family combos we can make!








Jack and Luke waiting in the cafeteria



I can't even count the number of programs I've been to between Maddie and Jack. But, it never fails that no matter where I sit, how much I plan, how early I get there, and how many times I ask them where they're standing, this is what I see...



They usually move over a little between songs (see below), but then it's right back to top hat in the face when they start singing again!



And back home!

Adventure Camp

Hi, I'm Maddie, and my post is about my 5th grade Adventure Camp. The Adventure Camp we went to was in Anna, Texas. We left on Wednesday, October 22 and got back on Friday, October 24. There were 10 girls in my cabin, Elizabeth, Lexi, Sara, Carol, Jocelyn, Katelyn, Dylan, Cheyenne, Melody, and me. We also had 2 cabin moms to help keep us under control!

Here are me and my friends from my cabin in the cafeteria waiting to leave.

















On the bus.(I had Lexi take the picture)

















Here's what the cabins looked like.

















When we got to our cabin, it wasn't ready for us. So we had to wait outside.

















There was a courtyard for us to play in during our down time.

















Finally inside the cabin. Me in my bunk!
























After a quick lunch, we worked on our skit for skit night. I was the narrator.

















Then we went on a nature hike. Here's a picture of nature!

















Each cabin had their own table in the dining hall. Here's ours!

















After breakfast the next morning, we went to archery. It was so much fun, and I even hit the red circle!

















Next we went to the challenge course. They called this the grapevines.

















After lunch, we hiked out to one of the lakes to go canoeing. That was my favorite part!!

















After canoeing, we went to dinner. Then it was time to practice our skit once more before performing it at the campfire. Here we are getting ready to go!

















The skit went great! Campfire was awesome! The next day we went on a prairie hike, but by then I had run out of pictures! After the prairie hike we had lunch, then it was time to head home! Camp was flat out FUN!!

Home again!

Two little angels!!

I forgot to mention in my Halloween post that Claire's angel costume was originally Maddie's. Maddie wore it her second Halloween, and I remember thinking I'd never seen anything more precious. I've been wanting to look back in my albums and find those pictures. Now that I see them, I remember the joy I felt (and still do of course!) having that sweet baby girl. By the next Halloween, she would have a little brother, but at this point she was our one and only! I love you my sweet first angel!





And who knew that 9 Halloweens later, I'd have another precious angel. I love you my sweet baby angel!!





I think I expected my two girls to look more alike in these pictures (and I think they do in some pics). For one thing, Maddie was almost 21 months and Claire was 28 months, so 7 months makes a difference. Look how much shorter it is on Claire!! And I guess I lost the little halo bow somewhere along the way!!

What did I do?!?!

When looking for the pictures of Madeline in her angel costume, I came across Jack in his first costume (he's 17 months here). And what else could it be but a football player!!! And I even picked out this costume without realizing that as Jack told Bill the other day "Dad, football is my passion!!" What if it all started back 7 years ago this night? I really doubt it though. I had to scan every picture I had to show how much he LOVED his costume!!


Get this off of me!!!








































































Seriously, a helmet too??
























Oh well - if it means I get candy!!

















And to all of you who know my sister, stay tuned! I asked my mom to get me a picture of her in the crayon costume! Alli, you know you were cute!!!