Alex Karate Competition

Alex participated in an In-school Karate Competition. He was very nervous, but did his best and won his division! Go Karate Kid!

Clara's Birthday Continues...

Clara so excited to open some presents at her party.

On her actually birthday we had a giant cupcake. She once again loved the frosting...purple and pink her two favorite colors.

Loving her new running shoes! She is a shoe girl!

Thank you Grandma Gourley for the wonderful doll!

Thank you grandma Hobbs for the scooter! We ride it every where!


Clara is such a sweet girl! She loves to talk and play with everyone! She is very coordinated and loves to play outside. She is very helpful at home helping to set the table, make sure everyone is doing what is right, & soon taking care of her little baby sister. We love our Clara girl very much!

Birthday Month!

The end of November and beginning of December is our time to celebrate!

Happy Birthday to me! I gave George and little bit of a break and let him make a cake from a box...red velvet, but he did make home made frosting. It was delicious.

The kids put on a performance for me. Lots of songs about how they love me...such a great gift!


Happy Birthday to George! A homemade german chocolate cake was what he requested. He was actually out of town on business for his birthday, so we celebrated a day early.


Happy Birthday to Clara! Clara had a pinkalicious party for her 3rd birthday. It was a blast! Pin the cherry on the cupcake, create your own princess frame, pink pizza, pink watermelon, pink lemonade, & pink cupcakes! It was pinktastic!

So excited to be eating her pink cupcakes. Clara's favorite part is the frosting of course!

Halloween

One more Halloween down and too many to count left! Don't get me wrong I love Halloween, but I don't love all the candy in my house. The Sugar Fairy does come and take most of it away, but she just can't seem to throw all of it away. So the Sugar Fairy spends the next few weeks piecing on candy (the good ones) until they are all gone. Hopefully, next year she will have the will power to throw it all away and save her the 5 lbs she has to loose.

Clara had a hard time deciding what to be for Halloween...she wanted them all! She decided on Snow White, which was just a princess to her. She really got into Halloween and ran to house to house for trick-or-treating.

Samantha always chooses her costumes based on beauty and I think she picked quite the dress! She looked beautiful and a little hot for Florida. :)

Alex was Dan the Bakugan guy. I don't quite know what he does, but Alex had to have the costume and it was on sale. Win-Win.

Gone are the days of coordinated costumes.

George's masterpiece! In Florida we carve them on Halloween or very close to it or else you have a rotten jack-o-lantern.

What we've been up to...

The last couple of months have been filled with homework, karate, homework, errands, homework, gymnastics, homework, PTA, homework, tap/ballet, more errands, yard work, and more homework. It has been busy, but we have had a blast!

Sammy is taking gymnastics this year and loves it! She is working on her one handed cartwheels and strengthening her core.

Alex started karate and is working hard to become just like the Karate Kid.

Last Friday he earned a new belt and went up to a harder class. His best move...round house kicks!

Clara takes dance with some of her friends from Ms. Breeanne. She LOVES it! It is her favorite day of the week.

Working on her step, kick move.