Wordless Wednesday: Fun in the Leaves

Got to get the piles ready to jump in!

After jumping for a bit...the war against the parents started!

So thankful for my little lovelies!

A Visit From Grammy

Ever since we moved to Virginia, Emily has been wanting and waiting for Grammy, my mom, to come visit. A ticket was booked, and Grammy arrived on Nov 1 for a 2 week visit. We packed a lot of fun and a lot of down time into the days she was here.

Here are a few of our favorite pictures from Grammy's visit:

I picked up the girls early from school and we went inside the airport to surprise Grammy!

I love this! Shows how excited they all were!

We took a day off school, and drove up to Baltimore to visit Discovery Cove Children's Museum...it was worth the drive!

We loved the 50's style diner!

Singing a little karaoke!

Random "sculpture" along the street!

 The girls had 2 days off since it was the end of the quarter and we took advantage of the time and drove down to Colonial Williamsburg.

In front of the Governors Palace.

The kids loved running through the maze...Grammy is in the pink at the very top!

Inside the original cellar from the 1770's, original brick work directly behind the girls.

Next, we hit up Washington DC and spent some time in the Smithsonian Museums.

Julia Childs kitchen.

Touching a piece of Mars!

 Grammy also had some down time with Andy while the girls were at school.

Playing with Moon Dough.

 Grammy birthday is on November 19th so the girls and I surprised her with an early birthday celebration dinner at Friendlys!

Before we left MN, Emily had a lot of sleepover's at Grammy's and Grammy indulged both of their sweet tooths with dark chocolate Dove Bars at bedtime...the tradition continued a couple days in VA as well!

Grammy's flight left VA at 5:15 in the morning. Emily really wanted to go, and I gave in. Here they are with one final hug, at 4:00 am!!!!

 It was great to have her here, and we can't wait for another visit!

Wordless Wednesday: Trunk or Treat

The Saturday night before Halloween we decided to go to a local church that was having a Trunk-or-Treat. For those who don't know what that is, the church organizes a community outreach and families sign up to park their cars in the parking lot, open up the trunks of their cars, add some decorations, and kids come around to each car to Trunk-or-Treat instead of going house to house to Trick-or-Treat. A bit safer, more family friendly event in my mind.

But, before we went to this event, the kids played in the SNOW!! We got about 2 inches on the deck, and a dusting on everything else! The weather channel informed us that since weather records were started in the 1890's, it's only snowed 3 times in Virginia in October! I guess we're just lucky!

Next it was time to make the transformations...

Emily to Taylor Swift:

Belle to Disney's Princess Belle:

Andy to Elmo:
(this pict is not actually from when we were at the church...he was too excited to walk around to stand for a picture so this is from earlier in the week!)

Playing a game for a treat!

A pirate gave Em 10 extra pieces of candy to sing a song for him...she obliged!!!

These next couple pictures are especially for my mom and sister, just to show how long the girls eye lashes look with a bit of mascara on them! Incredible!