Joyful Gratitude

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

HollyFest 2013

We had fun at HollyFest this weekend with friends.

Ella and Melissa on the Elephants

Emy's turn

Ella and Melissa watching Robinson's pig race

We love the pig races! :-)

Bounce house fun!

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Usborne Art Projects

The girls love the Usborne First Book of Art. Here are some of their projects so far.

Tissue paper, standing hippos

Ella's

Emy's

A simple family tree

Hand print birds

Gingerbread Haunted House

Ella loves decorating gingerbread, so we picked up a Haunted House kit at Target.

Her completed masterpiece!

It doesn't have to stand very long in this house. :-)

Monday, October 7, 2013

Pumpkin Patch Express

This was our favorite fall activity last year, so I was sure to get our tickets early this year. Ella has great memories of last year and enjoyed this years' trip too.

On the Pumpkin Patch Express headed to the pumpkin patch!

Picking pumpkins

Hand Tattoos!

Examining pumpkins and gourds...

... or mostly the magnifying glass. :-)

Decorating pumpkins

Pumpkin Sling!

Scarecrow and ghost targets

Yay! Hit the ghosts!

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

The Crystal Palace

The girls loved having dinner in the Crystal Palace with Pooh & Friends!

Emy was so excited to meet Piglet!

Another character they were super excited to see!

Eeyore's costume doesn't allow him to bend down, so I lifted Emy up to him. :-)

Pooh!

Beast's Castle - Be Our Guest Restaurant

I loved the Be Our Guest dinner at Beast's Castle! It was our first day at the park and due to weather I didn't bring my camera. We did have PhotoPass pictures taken and I found some images of the restaurant online.

(PhotoPass)

Ella, dancing with Beast (PhotoPass)

Emy meets Beast (PhotoPass)

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This is the room we ate in.

I loved the snow effect out this window.

The details in the castle were so fun to see. This is the West-Wing room with the slashed painting of the Beast as the prince he was and the rose is in this room too.

Music box style Belle and Beast dancing

This was my favorite dinner, but Ella said Cinderella's castle was her favorite.

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LIFE...

6/12/14: The girls and I were watching Finding Nemo last night. It was Emy's first time seeing the movie. You know how the mama fish and all the babies, but Nemo get eaten... well, Ella asks me what type of fish ate them. I reply quietly that it was a barracuda, but don't point out to Emy that they're D-E-A-D. We then both start nervously watching Emy's reaction to the scene. Then Emy bursts into a little song... "Barracuda, ya, ya, ya...". LOL! So, apparently the scene didn't emotionally scar her. :-)
6/6/14: Great! So Emy likes the taste of coffee with cream! That's just what I need from the one that asks me yesterday if frogs pee on the toilet as she's jumping around pretending to be a frog. Should have seen where that question was headed two seconds before answering "no - BUT they live outside". Too late!