Our Extremely Busy Day- Another Halloween

Luckily I took a personal day from work because I ended up running from activity to activity today.  It didn't help that I was up until 2:40am making wigs and sewing costumes, so a day off was well needed.  The morning started with an adorable Halloween parade/performance at Mia and Madi's nursery school.  The younger girls went as Anna and Elsa (as were many of the other kids), but they were adorable.  Mia sang her heart out and it was so fun watching her.  Madi was scared of walking around by herself so Mia came out of her classroom to help Madi. 

Madi and Grandma

My Anna and Elsa

Then I ran off to Makaela's school for her Fall party. Little did I know I would get roped into staying the afternoon for arts and crafts.  Of course I didn't mind; it was great to be part of the kids' day.

This year my mom, sister and niece live in the neighborhood so they came trick or treating with us.  Hayley was adorable as a little ladybug.

 The family dressed up as the Frozen theme...well almost the whole family.  Anna and Elsa were joined by Olaf and I dressed up as Sven.  Makaela opted to dress up as a softball player and show off her team's uniform.

The neighborhood was packed-this picture doesn't do it justice.

Madi was pulling the adults' treats by the end of the night.

Matt was exhausted after trick or treating but he rallied for the adult party.

Once again we had the adult neighborhood party and this year the theme was Game of Thrones.  Matt decided to dress as Prince Oberyn which meant I got to play Ellia.  I had to sew Matt's costume because we couldn't find one, which meant I watched a lot of YouTube videos on how to sew.   

Drago and Oberyn

Christmas Pictures

Once again, I waited until the last minute to take Christmas pictures so we were forced to take pictures in front of the house.  Luckily the girls came out beautiful and the card came out lovely.  You would think with the amount of Pinterest holiday card pins I have, I would have prepped early, but no.  Oh well, there is always next year.

This one didn't make it into the card :-)

And this one didn't make it in the card either.  Madi kept leaning over and pulling Makaela's hair.

Breakfast with Santa and Mrs. Claus

The hotel in World Golf Village was hosting a breakfast buffet with Santa and Mrs. Claus and we thought we would take advantage of it.  The line was fairly long when we first got there so we waited and as the breakfast crowd thinned out, we went up to meet Santa.  Santa and Mrs. Claus were so nice and just loved the girls.  We got a lot of personal attention.

 

Christmas Decorations

We barely got up from Thanksgiving dinner when Makaela asked to decorate the house (seriously, we hadn't even gotten out of our seats).  Begrudgingly, Matt dragged all the boxes down from the attic and the girls and I got busy decorating. I must say, we unpacked and decorated in record time.

Our neighbor had already put lights up so we took pictures by their house

Makaela's Santa list.  She wants a "real phone", "an ipad", "a real car"...not asking too much, huh.

And our Elf came out!  This year his name is Mikey, but it tends to change every year.

11 months of Madi

Madi turned 11 months during Thanksgiving weekend so her 11 month celebration was a whirlwind of holiday decorations.  Madi has only gained 7 ounces since last month (she is now 17.8 lbs) and the doctor is a bit nervous about this.  This kid moves around so much though, she is probably burning off all the calories she eats.  She is doing so well at her preschool and her teachers love her.  Luckily, my very good friend works there and she sends me videos throughout the day.  She is a binky child all the way through too.

Mia turns 3!

Last year Mia wanted to go to Sea World for her birthday and she said she wanted to do the same this year.  At the last minute, she decided she wanted a "Princess Party" so I had to pull together a party in less than a week.  We ended up having a lovely little party for her and all her friends wore princess dresses and costumes.  Mia is such a go-with-the-flow type of kid; she acted like it was a grand party and thoroughly enjoyed it. 

Reaching for the sky.

Her "mean" face

She acts all coy

After decorating cupcakes, she wanted to just decorate and eat icing and what the birthday girl wants, the birthday girl gets