Sarah is 3!

We had a small family party for Sarah on her actual bday- birthday breakfast and presents!

Our Sarah Elizabeth is such a happy girl. She cares deeply about others and gets upset when someone else is upset. She is kind of crazy acting sometimes, but that is why we love her. She loves her sisters very much and loves playing with both of them. She will do anything to get a laugh and is always ready for a good time.

She does have some fear issues, but is getting over a lot of them. She nows loves our neighbor's dogs, will actually climb up the playset at Chick FilA and even rode some rides at the fair. She is a people person and picks up on peoples' names quickly. I think she knew Emily's teachers' names before Emily did. Her best friend is still Zoe Helmer and they are so funny together.

We love our Sarah Baby!

Sarah's Birthday Party

I decide to have a little get together at the mall for Sarah's birthday party. It was actually my friend Erin's idea because I couldn't find a good weekend for a party, so we just met there one morning.

 We met in the food court for lunch and cupcakes and presents!

Chick Fila was nice to give her a free ice cream with a candle.

 

Lots of cute little girls...

 

Then on to the fun stuff... carsoual, playing in the shopping cars, TRAIN ride, play area

We all had a fun time.

I really enjoyed it. It meant no work or clean up for me AND I got to hang out with my best friends!

Sarah and Zoe

These 2 little girls.... they are something else. They LOVE each other. They get so excited to see each other. Sarah goes to Zoe's house every Monday morning. Zoe comes to our house every Wednesday morning. They know they will see each other in the hall of the preschool on Friday. They are in the same class on Sunday. There are major problems if they do not see each other on these days. 

However they do have their disagreements and one time Sarah got in big trouble for hitting Zoe. Now she says EVERY day, "Zoe coming to my house today? I not hit her today"

They are currently obsessed with tattoos (or "Tats" as Zoe calls them). One day Zoe came over and saw Sarah's latest tattoo and said, "Oh, Sarah you got a new tat! Cool" For some reason, this kind of worries me about these 2 as teenagers. 

Look!

Can you see them??

2 little bottom TEETH! 

Precious!

Sunday Afternoon

Andy has been anxiously awaiting the opening of a new greenway trail near our house. We took a walk out there one Sunday afternoon.

How sweet are these girls?

 The trail goes alongside the Neuse River and soon a bridge crossing over the river will be complete. 

It was such a beautiful fall day and it helped me appreciate God's creations... especially my sweet family. (Emily was pouting and therefore not pictured, but I am thankful for her too. :) )

Mascot Night

I know I have mentioned it a few times... but, I really love our local Chick FilA. They do such fun activities on Kids Night. Recently they had Team Mascot night. Rameses was there! So was the NCSU wolf, which Sarah kept calling the Big Bad Wolf.

Of course I had to get the girls dressed up in blue.

Emily wanted to get a picture with every mascot... even that ol nasty wolf. I loved her 'why is this thing touching me' face in every picture. And she had no idea how to do the wolf fingers (I don't know what they are called)

Lauren C. - I know you love this picture don't ya?

Make sure you show Bob!

We ran into Logan and Brown Bear while we were there.

I think this picture is cute of Andy and Ramses!

And who knows why I didn't think of getting a picture of the whole family with the Ram!

Ugh! Makes me so mad since the girls and I were even wearing our UNC gear. Oh well

Christmas is coming!!

I am so proud of myself.... we already have our Christmas pictures done and cards ordered. I am way ahead of things this year. :) Granted I still have to address and mail the cards out, but at least I am halfway there!

This year I am trying out a different website for my Christmas cards.... Tiny Prints! I am really impressed with their card designs. They are very classy! Check them out here.  They have a variety of sizes, layouts and designs. There are so many to choose from, but it is easy to narrow down with their great filters. And I really like that you can get a flat card, but have a message and picture printed on the back too. We just received a birth announcement today from some friends and the announcement was printed by Tiny Prints. It was on heavy cardstock and looked beautiful. It makes me very excited to get our cards!!!

Here is the one I picked... I love it!

You will have to wait and see it finished with our pictures. Andy took some really nice pictures just in our backyard with a tripod. Thankfully we had a neighbor boy jump around behind the camera to get the girls to laugh!

Now I am off to decorate our house for Christmas!

Halloween

So Halloween was a wet, wet, cold mess! It was pouring down raining! I was kind of over Halloween before it even arrived since we had gone to so many parties. However the girls disagreed.

Emily started off the evening by dressing up as a ghost to scare Daddy. Pretty funny!

Then the princesses got ready to trick or treat... in the rain! We definitely got our money out of these costumes since we worn them so many times. (Well, mom did since she bought them for their birthdays.)

Andy was nice enough to brave the rain and take them out to a few houses.

I stayed home and set up a spooky treasure hunt...

...that ended with hot chocolate.Yum!

Reppes Visit and Trunk or Treat

My college roommate, Katherine, was in town recently with her girls. They came over to hang out one afternoon. Her girls are the same age as Emily and Sarah, so they had a fun time playing together. They didn't waste any time on being shy.

The trunk or treat/chili cookoff was that night, so Kat and her girls came with us.

I have no idea why they were putting their bags on their heads, but once the big sisters did it, the little ones copied.

As usual, here is the one shot of Abby just to prove she was there!

It was so nice to catch up with Kat.

Facebook helps us keep in touch, but nothing beats hanging out in person!

And lucky us, we got to see the Reppes one more time before they left. Kat threw a birthday party for Katelyn while she was in town.

 The girls got to wear there costumes AGAIN!

I got to see a few more girlfriends that I don't see much

I dressed Abby up as a ballerina for this party.

She looked so cute!