Carving Pumpkins

The girls carved their own pumpkins this year...I think they did a nice job.

Fall swim meets have began

This is Abbie's second meet of the month. She is doing very well dropping her previous times. Competition is much harder this year; she has moved to the 9-10 age group.

Baptism

I just wanted to share the girls Baptism last weekend with everyone. Abbie has been asking for the last couple of years to be Baptised, the time was right and everything worked out well. She is very happy! Hayley was a little unsure of what to think. I was not sure she was going to go through with it after the sermon of dunking people in the muddy river, although she new it was the pool and by the looks of it she did well.

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.