Looking Pretty

We had a big week of looking good!  We had our abbreviated Thanksgiving which was eating pumpkin pie as our after school snack.  But I made it special by getting out the pretty tablecloth and the nice glasses.  Happy Thanksgiving!  (Notice the longest hair that Isaac's ever had.  He got a haircut on Saturday.)

This was also the prettiest pumpkin pie I have ever made, which, by comparison, means I've made some pretty bad looking ones!   It was delicious though!

The reason our Thanksgiving feast was limited to pie was because that night was Lydia's Year 6 graduation dinner.  In Australia 7th grade is high school!  Yikes!  Isn't she pretty?

I've really got to hand it to Lydia, the girl comes prepared.  The attire for the students was "semi-formal."  Judging by the lax of classiness in past events I assumed she would be the nicest looking one in her lovely black velvet dress and dressy sandals.  Well, we pulled into the parking lot and the girls were in cocktail dresses!  Well, Lydia had some tricks up her sleeve.  She'd brought along her heels and a strand of pearls and she instantly upped her level!  Clever girl!  Here she is announcing a speaker.

After dinner there was a "disco" (a dance).  Daddy daughter dance!

I got to dress up last week too for Mike's work Christmas party.  I felt so pretty in my pearls and floor length emerald green silk skirt!  Check out Mike's mo, which he has amazingly raised $1000 with!

On Sunday everyone looked so nice for the Primary Presentation, but I got no pictures.  I was too busy running around with my head cut off before it and too relieved afterwards to give pictures any thought.

Yesterday for Family Home Evening we started setting up the tree.  Sometimes, depending on time, we do it in two stages.  One night to get it out, put it together and fluff it out, then the ornaments for the second night.  Last night was our setting up night.  And we realized only half our lights work anymore!  Ha!  Good thing we have a couple extra strands of lights!  We're all excited to make it extra pretty tonight!  Hooray for Christmas! 

October Happenings

Busted!  

What's crazy is when we moved to Gladstone and set up this trampoline Mike jumped on it with keys in his pocket and managed to put a dime sized hole in it.  I threw my hands up and said "I give it two days before the whole thing is destroyed!"  Well, to our amazement it lasted two years!  The kids had some good fun with it while it was broken, but we were happy to get a replacement mat.  For a little while at least the kids' feet won't be covered in chalky black stuff

Bridget got a trim.  I was so reluctant to cut her gorgeous curls, but the ends were turning into dreadlocks.  So thrilled she still has ringlets!  And Alice turned 9 months!  She sure is a cutie!

Alice learned to clap!  What a fun milestone.  And here you can see her two little bottom teeth.

Bridget is taking swimming lessons.  Her first three lessons were rather traumatic (she was THAT screaming child) so I was ecstatic when she got in the water last week with no tears or wailing!  Hallelujah!

It's not a great picture, but here she is paddling with a kick board.  Her teacher wears a pretty mermaid crown!  

We had a nice low key Halloween party at our house with our wonderful Williams.  Here's us.  A mime (I tried the white face paint, but it was torture so I wiped it all off), a baby in a tutu, Princess Bridget, Mike is a recordable injury (you can't see the blood dripping down his forehead), Lydia is Professor Trelawny from Harry Potter, and Evelyn is a witch... with a fairy wand.  Isaac was dressed up as a feverish kid asleep in his room.  Poor chap.

James and Deborah.  Bridget was NOT a fan of James' dinosaur.  Deborah is a baby dinosaur hatching out of an egg.  She's due to hatch in two months!  

We played donut on a string, which I had cut the strings too short.  They are tied on the shortened frame of our new canopy.  (After camping with a borrowed canopy we had to buy one for ourselves!). Check out our cool friends Iron Man and Paw Patrol.

And we played a toilet paper mummy race game.

After a good sausage sizzle I took the girls trick or treating to a few of the neighbor's houses.  We got a total of two houses, three if you count ours.  No one was home.  Best trick or treating outing ever!  5 minutes!