Christmas Program

On Tuesday evening we headed over

to St Mark for the Christmas program.

In the past, Maddy has been very shy and

nervous about standing at the front of the

church singing with all the people in the crowd,

so Mrs Hulsey let Maddy take her Paddington Bear

up with her and she actually sings and dances!!

Clare, Maddy and Paddington.

Up front singing.

After the singing was over with we headed

to the classroom for cookies and cupcakes!

Happy Maddy Girl and Mrs Husley.

Santa!!!

The Falca's had a happy hour last weekend and Santa was there!!!

First look.

Maddy getting ready to climb up....

Clare is happy just sitting there!!

They both did really well and we probably

could have paid for the pictures at the mall,

but I thought they would both cry.

Santa at the party was good enough for us!!

Thanks for inviting us Trina!!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving day we went to my Grandparents house for dinner.

I didn't take many pictures at all, but here is

Clare with some of her favorite people:

Clare and Matthew

(watching Maddy be silly).

Clare, Katie and Jack

Although she doesn't look happy in the picture,

Clare loves Jack "Gack" more than anything and

Katie is creeping up on the list of peeps she likes!

Thanksgiving At Preschool

Maddy had a little show and Thanksgiving at preschool.

Walking up to the front. Very shy...

She sat with Mrs. Hulsey for the first song and then stood,

but didn't sing, for the second song.

Our little Indian girl.

New Gates

We got some new gates put in, courtesy of 5G.

Thank you!

We still need to get the wood for the gates, but they are up and solid!

Before.

After.

Before.

After.

This gate was moved back and the old gate and brick wall were removed.

Backsplash

Greg and Gwen put up the backsplash

in just about two hours.

I took the girls to the park to get them out of the house

and when we came back it was up.

Looks awesome!

Before.

After.

Visit From Sedona and Shae

Our friends from Boise are in town for a few

days and we got to hang out with them today!

We had lunch and played in the kitchen,

raced and chased, watched a movie and

jumped on the bed!

Shae, Maddy, Clare and Sedona.

Clare and Sedona missed their naps since there

was so much playing going on, but we did lay them

down to see if they would fall asleep.

Nope!

Clare and Sedona.

Trick or Treat

This was the first year we have taken the girls out.

Maddy was a butterfly and Clare was the same

pumpkin that Maddy was when she was 18mo or so.

We went out a little early and just went

up and down on our block. They had a lot of fun and really

got it after the third house or so! The most fun

was had when we got home and hung out

with the door open handing out candy.

Maddy was in charge and had got so excited every

time someone new came to the door!

Pumpkin Time!

The day before Halloween we got our

pumpkins ready to go, after a quick lunch.

The girls had a pirate and clown Mr. Potato Head set.

Clown face!

Bigger clown face.

Getting him all ready to go.

Maddy had the clown and Clare had the pirate.

Naptime?

Maddy asked if she could nap with Clare and

we said they could try it out, but if they were playing

and not sleeping they needed to be in their own beds.....

This lasted about 3 minutes.

In The Kitchen

Last weekend we spent a little bit of time on the kitchen.

Gigi had brought over the makings of rice

krispie treats, so we mixed up a batch of those:

Then we made my favorite yummy cookies!!

Pumpkin chocolate chip with cream cheese frosting!

The licked the beater of course!

Clares first beater.

Halloween Hoe-Down At St Mark

Today we went to Maddy's preschool for the Halloween Hoe-Down.

We got snacks with them, played games and did crafts

and then they got to pass out the treats they each brought in.

We also got to listen to a few more songs.

The cutest part was when they played Orange, Orange, Pumkpin!

(Duck, Duck, Goose.)

Snack time.

Sissy is so happy to be at the table with all the other kids!

She loved the water fountain!

Parachute time!

Greg ran across, then Maddy got to run after him...

So happy to run to Daddy! Funny girl.

* The kids got to wear costumes today and I thought she would get caught up on her butterfly wings so she got to be a flower girl. The dress she is wearing is the dress I wore as the flower girl in my Aunt and Uncles wedding!!

Visiting The Domschke's!

Yesterday we drove down to Tucson to play with the Domschke's.

The girls had a ton of fun, as usual,

and Sarah got some pumpkins to paint!

Snow White and Tink!

Clare driving Autumns car.

Getting ready to paint in the aprons that Gigi made.

Sarah drew T-Rex for the girls.

He is invading Autumns princess castle.

Watch out!