November Fun

Natalie loves Kindergarten and I love the crafts and projects she comes home with. Here is her Native American Indian outfit she made.

Complete with baby and papoose.

Our night out to the Canine Companion Gala...so nice to take a break from being mom and dad and just be husband and wife.

L feeding her baby some cereal.

Glad to see L is carrying on a family tradition...she absolutely loves peanut butter and now loves to eat it off the spoon. Daily she asks for some and walks around with her spoonful.

"Yes, I found the Little Debbie brownies and I want one"
V & N made an apple pie!

Yummo!

Lauren walking like a big girl with Nana and Miss Sadie.

It was a special day since we got to spend some time with an old friend, the original Valla! Jason and I met Valla many many years ago at the Orlando Magic games. She became a family friend and has always been such a happy, caring and kind person. At our wedding reception, Jason and I told her how much we loved her name and that if we ever had a little girl, we wanted to name her Valla. I'm not sure she believed us!

Here are Nat, Valla, Valla and Elise who is only 4 days older than Lauren.

After lunch, Val and I headed to her first Girl Scout outing- Outdoor Skills Day. The opening flag ceremony.

Bed roll relay

Bandanna fun

Making a treat

Time to eat

Brownie Troop 441

Cleaning dishes with a dunk bag

This video is from before Halloween, but I had a lot of trouble loading it. Louise had a scary animated butler she wasn't using this Halloween so we borrowed it. The girls knew nothing about it and this is how Jason introduced them to him....

During Veteran's Day, Valla asked about WW II. I gave her a quick run down and she kept asking more questions! At one point I explained who Hitler was and how he was "mean" to people who were Jewish and reminded her of our visit to Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam. She asked why he was mean to them. I explained he thought they weren't as good or smart as he was. Natalie, who had been listening pipes up with, "That's not true! He's wrong... my friend S is Jewish and she's real smart, she knows lots of bat facts."

V asked what my high school mascot was. I told her it's an Indian. She replied with, "that's good since it's close to Thanksgiving."

Jason commented how he'd been eating cookies at work since there was a plate of cookies in the break room. V asked why were they there. Natalie replies, "They're probably for Santa."

Little Red Hiding Hood- N

"An octopus has construction cups on it's leg."- N

N says, "I drank my whole glass of coke without stopping." She pulls up her shirt, "look how big my belly is!"

N, "My Dad is pretty awesome!"

L eating ice cream.

L loves this silly youtube video...

N at her jazz class...she loves it!

Super Dad

Having Fun Being a Family

Valla had an exciting moment this weekend. Her artwork from school was displayed at the local Art Show. She was very proud!

V with her masterpiece. A ballerina and her shadow.What happens when the little one gets into the Halloween candy? No need to take off the wrapper....

Will had his 3rd birthday party at a bounce house & slide place...Everyone loved it.
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Our THREE cats making a sleeping train, at least they all get along now.
.The Friday before Halloween, we hosted a Halloween playdate at our community park. They all had fun. (N was not in the mood to wear her costume.)

Here are N and her friends from her K class.
Niki took this great shot.
The kids LOVED apple bobbing. I was amazed how good Val did considering how many teeth she's missing.
Decorating cookies.
TP mummies.
Our attempt at a group shot!

What happens when L grabs an open chocolate pudding cup from the counter...
Hat Day at school.

Carving pumpkins. Val's, Jason's and Nat's 2009 editions.
The big night.


Some of the kids we happened to be trick-or-treating with were quite frankly BRATS! Here was our 2 min reminder talk of "even though those kids are literally banging on the doors, yelling 'Gimme candy, gimme candy!', and then grabbing handfuls out of the people's hands...they were not to act like that."
L thoroughly enjoyed Halloween. After the first few houses, she got the hang of it and tried her best to keep up with the big sisters. Lollipops are her favorite.
On the way home.
The gang afterwards.




"Myself is funny" Natalie Boffey

Mom, "Nat, why did you come into our room in the middle of the night?"
Nat, "I opened my eyes at night and I saw too much dark!"

I have some great videos, but have been having trouble uploading them to the blog. I'll keep working on it.