Fall Festival Day

Today was one of those good ole fun days! We spent the morning and afternoon playing with Aunt Alina and Karis at our house. Alina and I worked on projects all day (ranging from kitchen curtains to hair bows) while all three little girlies played, napped, and played some more! Momma K. stopped by to surprise the girls with a fabulous assortment of Halloween cupcakes - purple and orange oh my!!! It was a very popular surprise! I realized today just how enjoyable it is going to be for the girls to grow up with so much of our family either in town or very near by. I so enjoyed having my house open for family to spend the day and drop in and out. It just felt right - not to mention fun!At the end of the afternoon, I dressed up my girls and took them to our church's Fall Festival. Before we left though, we dressed Karis too for a little "trick or treat dress rehearsal". I snapped a few quick pictures of our cute little critters. Did you know it's impossible to get two toddlers/pre-k-ers to look at the camera at the same time? It is. They were just so excited, and so "in character"! There was a lot of meow-ing, hopping, and tail wriggling going on - so cute! It will be fun when Anabelle is old enough to enjoy Halloween, this year she's just tolerating all of this "fun". I'm going to reveal her costume tomorrow after trick-or-treating, can you guess what she is going to be? It's too stinkin' cute! My friend Tiffany and her family met us at the Fall Festival. She brought along her two little sock-hop cuties, McKenna and Jack. The weather was really pleasant, not so much cool, but pleasant. The kids really loved playing the games and collecting candy - I mean, who doesn't? Evie spent a good bit of the night obsessing over the bouncy castle, McKenna twirled, and Jack was his normal cool self. It was really everything you'd expect from a fall festival, that is until we decided to get in the face painting line. Brace yourself for the next picture... "What the heck?" you ask? Well... Evie asked to be a bird, and so that sweet high school girl made her into a bird. Really, bless her heart for devoting her night to fulfilling the bazaar requests of three year olds, that takes impeccable sweetness. Evie could not have been happier, Tiffany and I could not have laughed harder, and McKenna could not have been more confused! This was a classic moment! Evie ran around for the next 5 minutes proclaiming "I'm a bird, I'm a bird", never mind she was wearing a bunny costume. What is in that creature's drinking water - really? If you've seen Cloudy With a Chance of Meet Balls (funny movie by the way) here is a one liner you're sure to get... "Rat Birds". Evie's "Rat Bird" look was all good and fun until I announced it was time to go home. I then had to haul little "Rat Bird" out of the bouncy castle with tears streaming through the face paint. Needless to say, I've spent most of the night washing "Rat Bird" out of her costume and my clothes. Hilariously worth it though!

I love little kids, I LOVE my kids, I love holidays, and I love to laugh! Today was just one of those good ole fun days!