All I want for Christmas...

...is my two front teeth! Hayley our toothless wonder looks like she may not get these teeth until Christmas. I have never seen a child take out teeth the way she does, as soon as it's a little loose she get's the tissues and pulls until it's out. A bit scary if you ask me!

Puzzles, Puzzles, Puzzles

While Grandma was visiting the girls had a good time putting puzzles together. Everyone worked on this Big puzzle of Washington DC. (Grandma did the majority of it) it was fun to see all the places we have been and look at many places we would like to see. Hopefully we will get a trip there soon. We all had a good time hanging out with grandma while she was here, the girls got a kick out of the puzzles. I think because grandma kept them moving along, (they would hurry home from school just to see how far the puzzle had came along each day:)).

First Day of School

Grandma is here visiting on the first week of school, we all walked together. They were waiting in the park that is on the way to school while I ran back to get the camera. Yep, almost forgot it! Hayley was a little unsure about school this morning...butterflies in the belly! She has a wonderful teacher this year and came home saying she loves school...Big relief for me. Abbie is the top dog at school this year and very proud of it...Butner Elementary only goes to 4th grade. I think she's been the happiest kid in town this week, all smiles and non- stop talking the last few days. I can hardly believe she was able to keep quiet at school today.

A little mountain camping...

Abbie, Hannah, Haleigh, and Hayley
We had such a good time camping with our friends the Bjorkmans a couple weekends ago. I think everyone got a kick out of the deer in the campground, they would come up so close it was a little scary!

We took a six hour hike to the top of the mountain...WOW was that a hike and the view was very nice.

Horse Camp & Ballet

Abbie went to horse camp this past week and had the time of her life. She went for seven hours everyday and enjoyed every minute of it. When she got there in the morning she watched the horse's come into the barn to eat, and then the kids would groom and saddle the horse's for the day. They had two trail rides a day (that included walking, trotting and cantering), class room time and lots of cleaning. Yep, cleaning with out any gruff, I wish she smiled that way when she cleans at home. This is Mr. Kelly who she rode, I believe she rode about nine different horses this week. Of course she thinks we need to continue these trail rides throughout the year....or her dream to be a private horse owner at the barn!

This picture of Hayley is with an old horse named Cricket, I believe Abbie said she is 38. They just let her roam around living her days out.

I have been trying to get video on here and am not having any luck tonight so we will stick to pictures. While Abbie was getting all smelly with the horses. Hayley was getting all pretty for ballet camp. It was quite an extreme! I had such a good time getting her all dressed up, she was even willing to wear her hair up...that's very unusual. She was very cute and had a good time, there was a little bit of an ease since she danced with this teacher here when she was two.

Cup Cakes

These were fun and yummy too!

9 years old

Abbie is now a big 9 year old and had a very fun filled day! She loved all of her gifts and is feeling like such a big girl. We started the day with gifts and then her friend Haleigh came over to help decorate cup cakes, it was Haleigh's Birthday yesterday; she's nine as well. The girls shared a party together later in the day. We used the rec. room and pool near the house...great idea it was such a fun easy party. We had a little rain so we had to break out an old pin-the-tail on the donkey my mother had sent me from when I was little (yes it's a classic). The rain cleared up and we all got to enjoy the pool. Now we are getting ready for our first small sleepover and I'm not sure what to expect... I just have some wild memories of some of my own sleepovers as a child. Yikes!!!