Violin Recital

Well, Sadie has had her third violin recital.  She is actually playing a real song.  She played, "Lightly Row."  Anyway, here she is....

Thanksgiving

We have had a fun week celebrating Thanksgiving at our house!  We had a quiet dinner at home yesterday and spent the day decorating for Christmas and resting.  Gabe made a great turkey with all the fixings and we ate and ate and ate.  Sadie has been looking forward to turkey and pumpkin pie for quite some time now.  The girls really enjoyed watching the parade this year which was a lot of fun.  We recorded it so they have actually watched it several times.  We decided to go bowling this afternoon so I snapped a few pictures while we were there.  We are so thankful for the time we have as a family and for our sweet, sweet girls!  We are truly blessed!

 

  

 

Decorating the Christmas Tree

 



Getting ready to Bowl.  Is it obvious Claire is saying, "Cheese"

 



Go Sadie Go!  

Claire needed a little help to get the ball rolling.

 



Taking a little break.  Bowling can be hard work.  

Gabe with the turkey!  It was soooo good. 

 



Who knew Starbucks would be open on Thanksgiving?  We loved having a coffee and the girls thought they had one too.  Shhh...don't tell them it was hot chocolate.  They were conviced they were having chocolate coffee and watching the parade. 

 



And the picture that loaded out of order.  Just a screen shot of their first bowling match up.  There will probably be many more to come. 

Princesses and more princesses

 

Well, we made it through Sadie's birthday and it was on to Halloween. The girls were of course, princesses. Nana sent us a great costume for Claire and Sadie wanted to be Belle so we found her a costume too. We went to the fall festival at Gabe (and Sadie's) school. It is always great and we come home with way too much candy! Our plan was to take the girls trick or treating on our street on Halloween night since we had not done that before, but Gabe called after school and said that Sadie was running a fever. We all got home, checked Clarie and guess what? Fever. So, our Halloween was spent at the walk in clinic getting antibiotics. They both had a virus, cough, crouppy thing. Claire was not as bad as Sadie, but it was rough. The doctor at the clinic felt really bad that they were not going to get to go trick or treating so he gave them a plastic bag and let them go in his office. It was really sweet. I tried to tell him we had plenty of candy, but he still filled their bags. I guess they must have looked pitiful. I will admit that they seem to know how to turn on the charm when candy is involved. 

 

 

 

 Princess Claire

 

 Princess Belle

 

 

 Face painting

Playing games with friends.  

Sadie turns 5!



Well, I thought that I was just going to do a fall recap, but I have ended up with too many pictures for one post, so here is the first with Sadie's birthday.  

 

 

 

We had her party at one of her favorite places.  She calls it the "princess store" but the name is really Sweet and Sassy.  It is a dress up store for little girls.  My girls love it and we knew Sadie would love to have her party there.  The girls all dressed up in princess costumes, had their hair and nails done, and then danced on a runway.  It was a great group of girls and they had so much fun!  Claire was old enough to participate and it was fun to see her with the "big girls." 

 

Sadie has started Pre-K and is definitely not our little Sadie anymore.  She is very friendly and very outgoing.  She is loving learning and loves school.  We are so excited for who she is becoming and the plans that God has for her.  I am so thankful that I get to watch her grow and be a part of what God has planned. 



Dressing up!

Getting their hair and nails done.

 



Preston, Sadie, and Kaitlyn. Such sweet friends.

 



Two princesses

 



Dancing on the runway. 

 



Getting ready to dance. 

 



And of course some cupcakes for our big 5 year old.