Halloween 2015

This year my girls had this big plan to be Disney Princesses for Halloween.  Since I'm finally done with school I decided I could probably find the time to make costumes, as long as I started early enough.  I started with Amanda's Belle costume.  I used a pattern for a Cinderella dress (the new live-action Cinderella) because there wasn't a Belle pattern that looked authentic enough.  I had to skip some things and change some things, so I was so happy that it turned out so awesome!  And we even found the perfect gloves!

My next task was Missy's Rapunzel dress.  Again, we were going for authenticity, so I made even more changes on this one.  And again, I was super proud of the results!   

For Jessica's costume, we were able to borrow a dress from Nat's friend, and I just made the shoulder thingy.  She was Cinderella.

We had thought about making Josh a prince costume, but I ran out of time and energy.  I did whip up this shirt for him in about 5 minutes though, and he made the cape.  He's a villain.



Jessica's Peace Poster

Jessica's school participates in the Lion's Club "Peace Poster" contest.  Jessica loves art and worked hard on making her poster.  One morning we got a call from her art teacher saying the judging was done, and Jessica got FIRST PLACE!!

She got to have a picture of her poster in the paper, and she won $100!

November 2015

November happenings:

First Jason's birthday!  He turned 45!  And he felt good enough to have dinner and cake with us at the table.  And we actually found 45 candles!

Justin and the kids got to come spend Thanksgiving with us, it was awesome.

Greeeeen!

Melissa has such a great group of friends this year.  Some of them she knew last year, some are new middle school friends, and most of them play the flute.  

One day she was telling me about how fun they are, and I suggested invited them all over for a little party.  We figured out a good day to do it a couple weeks away, then realized it was the perfect day because it was the night after Missy's favorite day of the year, St. Patrick's Day!  She made it a green party, and made little invitations telling her guests to wear as much green as possible and bring something green to eat.  They ran around a played and watched The Jungle Book and ate way too much.  It was awesome.

And speaking of Missy and St. Patrick's Day, here she is in her green outfit:

She also wore this mustache all day.  And she had made an impressive "Beyonders" cake for her book report at school.  Best St. Patrick's ever!