My Mom!

My mom just left this morning to head home to Kansas! I miss her so much already! We had the best time while she was here...the girls just adored having Mimi here and it was so fun that she was able to be at all the Halloween festivities! She would never miss any of it if we lived closer so it was so nice there were some things going on while she was here! We had a great time shopping at the outlets kid free and I even picked out some things for myself! Yipee :) Thanks Mom! I can't tell you how much fun it was and I miss her so much already! Be praying for me to not have such a sad heart getting use to her being back home in Kansas. I LOVE YOU MOM! CAN'T WAIT UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Trick-or-Treat

The girls with their pumpkins!

Starting out right with a marshmallow popcorn treat :)

There goes Dorothy!

Trick or Treat!

SUGAR COMA!!!

So this year we went over to our friends the Bley's house to take the girls trick or treating together. You have all heard me talk about them before their little girls are the my girls best buddies, Peyton and Lexi...they also have awesome parents that are our good friends Erin and Geoff! We had a great time and it was so fun to have the girls all together! It was also SO fun to have my mom with me!!! Yeah! The girls had a total blast and got tons of candy...Mal got tired and we had to carry her at the end but not our little Dorothy the Dinosaur she would not let us help her at all! Even up really tall stair cases she wanted to do it all by herself! It was SO cute! We had a great time and the girls were totally exhausted! Thanks Erin! Love you!

Happy Halloween!

Here are some pictures of all of us before we headed over to our friends house for the trick or treating festivities! We actually got some pretty cute ones even though the girls were super hyper out of control excited! :-) It was SO fun having mom with us! We had a great time and as my sister said "D-O-R-O-T-H-Y this makes my whole heart smile" and I have to say she just took the words write out of my mouth! Both of the girls looked darling (of course I am a bit partial to them) but this year they totally picked their costumes out by themselves and Whit is totally obsessed with the Wiggles and she had her little heart set on being Dorothy the Dinosaur and I had to order that costume from Australia! She has been talking about it for weeks and she looked so cute! She just LOVED it! She kept saying "Hey look at me I have a tail on my body" Happy Halloween to all of you from Texas!

Halloween Party!

Mal had her class performance and Halloween party on Friday! It was SO cute and she was super excited Mimi got to be there to see it all! The kids up on stage in their costumes was SO stinkin' cute! Mom and I had our personal favorites that were cracking us up (a mad Hannah Montona, a pouting Tinkerbell, and a little tiny Bumblebee jamming out to songs) but the entire thing was adorable! The party was a success...as room mom and party coordinator I was relieved! My mom got a kick out of the party she said it was over the top and was just laughing about how that is totally me! :) Love it! We had a blast and Whit was happily at her MDO class hanging with the kids!

Pumpkin Carving!

The girls were SO excited to carve pumpkins! It was such a funny experience...Mal picked the hardest carving I have ever seen for Scott to carve into her pumpkin...hilarious...I love Scott sitting there saying "This is going to be kind of hard for dad" but he finished it about an hour later and it was awesome! Whitney picked a ghost for mom that was more complicated than she ever did when I was growing up...she said "oh my Mimi was just going to do the basic jack o lantern face" Love it! But again Mimi pulled it off and both of the jack o lanterns turned out awesome :) Scott had lots of help cleaning out his pumpkin from Mal but Whit quit on Mimi as soon as she saw the strings hanging from the top! Sooooo fun!

Mimi's Here!

Mimi hadn't been here long at all when the girls managed to dress her up from head to toe for a show! I LOVE this picture! It is for sure becoming a classic! Love!

Kids Choir Fall Performance

Here is a little video clip from the Kids Choir performance. You can see Mal's best buddy Peyton standing next to her not to pleased to be on stage...she sat with Erin and I after this song :-) Mal did really well she sang all the songs! I was pretty impressed! It was super cute!

Our Auntie Amy!!!!!

Chocolate Ice Cream!!! :-)

Cute little baby bump!!! :) (and no that is not one on me my shirt is just blowing in the wind)

Sisters!!!!

I know I put this on the soccer post but its just SO cute!!!

Auntie Amy arrived on Friday morning! We had been anxiously awaiting her arrival and just had the BEST time with her during her visit!!! All I can say is I wish I could have had her here even longer! We had so much fun going and working on her baby registry and spending an entire shopping day at the outlets-woo hoo! It was just so fun! I cried when I saw her get off the plane...1. I was so excited to see her and 2. I can't believe her tummy with my little nephew in there!!! She looks so cute and is just doing great! I can't wait to get home at Christmas time!
I miss her already! LOVE YOU AMY!!!

Soccer Game # 4

Auntie Amy was in town this weekend and got to come to Mallory's soccer game! Mal was SO excited for Amy to see her play! The weather was BEAUTIFUL and we had a great time!

Rainy Morning

A cool rainy morning at our house with no preschool on this Colombus day means jammies until noon crazy hair and CRAFTS!!! Our favorite past time....this morning the favorite craft was collages! The girls love to cute pictures of babies and kids out of magazines and then go crazy with the glue and make their own collages! It is totally fun...totally messy and they love using scissors (supervised of course) and it forces me to throw out old parenting magazines I always find a reason to save! Yipee!!! LOVE TO YOU!

Typical Evening! :)

i

So typical night at the Graybeal household....the girls and I were making pumpkin bread and Scotty was anxiously awaiting to be our test taster and then the girls decide to create a new game called "Doctor Hammer" where they doctor wore these crazy blue goggles that belong to the water dog toy...it was all fun and games for awhile and then a fight broke out over who's turn it was to wear the Doctor Hammer goggles so we had to move on to a new game....HILARIOUS! I love our life :) Thank you Lord for our precious girls and our full of life house!!!!!

Soccer Game # 3

Mal's soccer game was canceled last weekend so this week was game #3....totally cute as always but it was only 53 degrees outside and let me tell you kiddos that live in Texas want no part in playing soccer when it is 53 degrees outside....they were all FROZEN and just wanted to snuggle with their mommy's and daddy's on the side lines....too cute! The other team had this kid that was seriously a head taller than even our biggest players...he was huge...my friend Alicia put it perfectly..."Ummm I think we need to see a birth certificate on that kid!" too funny! So with no kids on the field and the big guy from the other team repeatingly making goals the score did not end in our favor! Ha! :) TEXAS LOVE!

Wrestling....

Who said girls don't wrestle all over the house like boys?! :-)

My Girls!

Have I mentioned lately how much the girls love putting on "shows"? Have I mentioned lately how much I love them?