Monster Bash 2011

I made my first ever homemade costume this year, a jellyfish! It was really cool looking with LED light hair extensions and everything :)  We were an under the sea family with our scary shark, beautiful mermaid, jellyfish and James was a shark-bite victim. 

We had such a great time this year. Thanks everybody for helping with the food and for putting together such amazing costumes!  I tried to get pictures of everybody but I missed some :(

Anyway, here are the ones I got, and man this year the costumes were GREAT!!!

 The winner for best individual costume was Eddie with his Richard Simmons! Loved it!

 The winner for best group costumes were The Little Mermaid crew in the Spinks family, Amazing!

Trick or Treat!!

The girls got to pick their own costumes this year, which is a BIG DEAL when you are 3 years old! Sophia wanted to be a beautiful mermaid and Isabella wanted to be a scary shark!

They were both pretty stinkin cute!

 The first festivity was the costume parade at preschool, it was really cute to see them all lined up so proud of their costumes.  They all shouted "Happy Halloween!"

 Then on Halloween night we met up with the neighbors to do some trick or treating. 

 The girls with their friends Lilah and Matthew

 We took a break at the Henry's house to check out the candy, they were so excited to have full buckets of candy!

 Let the craziness begin! Yikes!

Happy Birthday Nicholas Otto Stolz!

It just doesn't get any better than this! Holding my tiny new nephew who is absolutely precious!

Happy Birthday sweet Nicholas we love you very much!!

Preschool Pictures 2011

Fall Fun

We took the girls to the Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Patch in Longmont again this year, it is so cute! We have been taking them since they were babies and we couldn't wait for them to be big enough to ride on the rides there.  Funny, after we realized how much $ they charge for the rides we were kinda wishing they were too little to ride again!  The girls had a blast though, they rode on the cars and the airplanes, went on a pony and a train ride and played in the bounce houses.

 After the pumpkin patch we decided to hire a low budget (actually free) photographer, aka Papa, to see if we could get some good family pics... we were very impressed! Thanks Papa for taking pictures of us!

 And last but not least I finally got a picture of the girls preschool teacher Ms. Suzanne!

Estes Park and Heritage Square

So maybe the one good thing about working every other Saturday is that I am learning to appreciate the weekends I do have off! We have been doing lots of fun stuff this summer with the girls.  Two trips to water world where I didn't have a camera, and most recently we took some day trips to Estes Park and Heritage Square...

 We saw lots and lots of elk in Estes Park, the girls thought they were cool but really didn't understand why they couldn't go try to pet them!

 And Heritage Square with our friends the Mercers was a blast! I couldn't believe how brave the kids were!  They went on every ride in the park, and lots of them they went by themselves :) My favorite was the ferris wheel and the girls loved the banana planes!

Preschool

I can't believe my little baby girls are in preschool already!  They were so excited for their first day of school! The have a wonderful teacher, Ms. Suzanne, who came over to meet them first so they couldn't wait to go see her again :)  I went picture crazy that morning but still forgot to get one with Ms. Suzanne, will get one soon!

I love this picture, little supermodels!