Witches and mice...how nice

A month or so ago, when the discussion of Halloween costumes came up, Megan announced that she wanted to be Minnie Mouse for Halloween. I was thrilled since Em was Minnie a few years ago and Meg is now the perfect size for the costume.

Emily proclaimed that she wanted to be a "pop witch" for Halloween. Our response was, "A what?" After her description I was able to deduce that she wanted to be a friendly variety witch with bright colors and perhaps some bling. Sounded like a fun endeavor so during fall break we started pulling all the pieces together.

Last Friday was the school's Fall Festival so both girls got to take a trial run of the costumes before the big night. She's very pleased with the final result...

All tuckered out

I'd say this is a sign that our first day of fall break was a success. Full of many activities including miniature golf, bumper boats, a roller coaster, bike rides and daddy calisthenics.

Rolling into five in style

Our baby girl is turning five on Tuesday. She hasn't had a birthday party with friends from school...ever. Not to say she's a poor deprived child. Last year we surprised the girls and took them to Disneyland. The year before we were in San Jose for my high school reunion and celebrated with our San Jose family. Both of those years we had a Halloween party for the girls in lieu of her birthday party. Before that, she was one and two and let's face it, after the first child we learned that simple and intimate is best at that age...so we had small celebrations with just family. But this year she's turning five...and it's the last year with this group of girls from preschool...and she's our sweet, amazing, funny and beautiful Megan. So we celebrated in style with seven of her classmates at a GirlyGirlz princess birthday party. Here's a few pictures from the festivities.










A special thanks to Michelle for capturing so many fabulous pictures that I was too busy to catch. It was hard to pick a sampling.

Like totally

For spirit week Em had "80's Day". You know you've reached a critical age when your kids are dressing up in "your" decade for spirit week. Isn't she like totally awesome?



What do you suppose our kids kids are going to wear when it's "Turn of the Millennium" day at school?