Enjoying November!

Saturday had to be the nicest day of fall! The girls and I spent the morning at the park while Chad was at his captain's test. We're used to being on our own this time of year! So we made the most of the day by spending a lot of it outside. We hung out at the park for a couple of hours and made a lunch trip to McDonalds...or as Lauren calls it "PinkDonalds"...don't ask...I don't know. Here are a bunch of shots of the girls playing and being silly...Enjoy!

Getting them both to sit still for the camera is virtually impossible...these are the best 2!

I do like these two pictures of Ella...she is turning into a little model...she actually likes getting her picture taken now.

She was so proud of herself for climing up and sitting on these stools. Yay!!! :)

Playing in the leaves...hope there are more days like this in store for November. We had a blast!

Lauren's 2nd Birthday...finally! :)

Happy 2nd Birthday, Lauren...in November! We had just gotten back from vacation on a Tuesday, bought a house that same day, tore out our last bathroom on Wednesday, and was in the middle of putting it back together along with many other last minute improvements while we had Lauren's birthday on Friday of that week. It was a busy month...August was. My mom had the only pictures from Lauren's party. My camera wasn't unpacked from vacation, so Mom took the pics. Here is my baby! She's getting to big and is plenty full of attitude to go with it!


Mom and Lo.

My grandma, "Gran" and Lo.

Almost too tempting...

The balloons were the biggest hit of the party!

My big 2 year old!

Have to have some "nem & nems".. :)

Lo is all personality...I wonder where she got that from???!!!

My two pretty girls!

Enjoying dinner...

Serving cake....

Opening presents....(i wish i were still this tan!!)

Notice the change in outfit??? Lauren HAD to put on her new Dora jammies before we could continue opening gifts...we had plenty of help with that!

Halloween!!!

The matching butterflies had a great time Trick-or-Treating this year. Chad had to work again this year, so it was me and the girls solo! He has only been off for one Halloween since Ella has been around. So Halloween's are usually pretty exhausting for myself. ;) I did manage to get a couple of good pics of the girls together which is very rare.

All ready to go!

Cheese!

Ella loved the wings on their costumes!

Heading out the front door...

...to go see Papa Mike.

The girls were wound up by the time we got down to Chad's parents. They got books and Candy.

The we headed back into town to see Anthony and "Karka."

Anthony was teasing them with fake "piders."

Going to see Daddy at the fire station.

Daddy and his girls.

Mommy and the grouchy butterfly.

Driving the trucks.

Out to see "Great Papa." Our pictures got progressively worse as the night went on! ;) It was a fun night, and they had plenty of candy to last for several days.

Halloween at Dance!

Ella's dance class all dressed up in their costumes on Thursday. Everyone was really cute, and they did really well posing for their pictures! Ella is the little pink butterfly on the front row to the right.

The cute little butterfly in her tap shoes.

The whole group...Miss Beth was a hippie!

My other little "monster." She put her raisins on the ledge while watching Ella dance. Not sure how sanitary it was, but it kept her busy. I asked her "where are your raisins?" This was the pose I got!

Halloween at Work

The group I work with at ADM dressed up as race car drivers. We were representing a campaign going on at work called "Customers Drive Our Success." Our group ended up winning the costume contest (Halloween is a big United Way fundraiser day for ADM)...and we raised money for the cause as well. The logos on our "race suits" are our customers logos...it turned out pretty neat.

Here are our lovely salesmen...the pit crew.

And Ann and Rachel hard at work! :)