Happy Thanksgiving 2012

Emily (left) and Lauren (right) showing off their festive school art projects. The girls love Thanksgiving!

Emily (left) and Lauren (right) on Thanksgiving Day, anxiously awaiting the arrival of our guests.

Per usual routine, we had an overabundance of food.

This year we had a group of 17, so the girls and their friend Amanda dined at their own special table.

Aunt Tian and cousins Kali and Kay feasting in the dining room.

This year we had a Thanksgiving pinata!  Turkey pinatas were hard to come by, so we had a Pablo the penguin pinata.  Here is Emily pulling one of the ribbons.

Lauren pulling one of the ribbons...

Scrambling to pick up all of the treats! 

After dinner we played games... ping pong was the most popular choice.

Emily is a very enthusiastic air hockey player... she was working up a sweat! The girls were exhausted by the end of the evening. We are so thankful to have such great family and friends!

Dinner Playdate with Amanda

This weekend we went over to Amanda's house for a playdate and dinner! Emily and Lauren take swimming lessons with Amanda and she is one of their favorite friends.

 Eating fruit appetizers and drinking delicious blueberry tea.

Doing art projects together before enjoying the delicious feast that Amanda's mom Frances prepared!

Butterfly Wings

The girls have been enjoying these cute butterfly wings from cousins Kay and Kali! They like to wear them and "fly" all around the house.

Happy butterflies! Emily on the left and Lauren on the right.

Halloween Festivities

Halloween has always been one of the girls' favorite holidays.  This year, the festivities started the week before!  We took this photo on our way out the door to gymnastics class.  Lauren dressed up as Super Girl and Emily was a ladybug.  

Teacher Jane let the class wear their costumes over their gymnastics suits during the initial floor warm up and routines.

We carved our pumpkins a few days before Halloween so we could enjoy them a bit longer.

Emily (left) and Lauren (right) both wanted smiling pumpkins with teeth.

Halloween shirts and candy corn jewelry!

Girls getting ready to go to school the morning of Halloween.

The class Halloween party was so cute!  Everyone got a chance to show off their costumes.  

 Emily talking to the class about her costume.

Halloween night!  The girls had a blast trick or treating and collected lots of treats.

Our friend Gavin was born on Halloween, so he had his birthday party the next evening at Out of This World Pizza.  The girls always enjoy seeing him!