Christmas 2012

This was the Christmas show at Preschool. 

Maddie is in the front row and Oli is in the back row. 

 Classroom parties!

Oliver told Santa he wanted a beyblade for Christmas and Santa didn't know what it was.  Oliver's description was, "It's something that spins and spins and never stops spinning". Santa still looked a little confused. Then Oli said, "You can get it at Toys R Us, Santa." hilarious!

Maddie didn't want to sit on Santa's lap.

CHRISTMAS IN ILLINOIS!

Decorating cookies with Grandma Hayden :)

Christmas morning!

Peoria Riverfront Museum

Festival of Lights

Going back home.

Baseball field at Winthrop Park

On this pretty afternoon at Winthrop Park, the kids had fun playing and getting dirty while I had fun getting candid shots :)

One Fine Day

In the morning we took the kids to Tom Brown where they like to ride their bikes. Madelyn is getting the hang of it and Oliver loves going really fast. 

It's fun to see life through their eyes. 

I don't want to forget these moments.

That afternoon we went to a Fall Festival. The highlights were the pony ride and snow cones.

I found it funny that it was a Fall Festival but it was 95 degrees outside and we were eating snow cones. We love living in Florida :)

Halloween pics

Spidy Oliver didn't want to wear his mask.  Madelyn refused to wear her Snow White costume despite trying it on and talking about it several times. So, I rushed to the closet, found a pink tutu, a gymnastics leotard, leggings and pink shoes that happened to match the tutu. She was the happiest ballerina :) I gave myself a pat on the back for coming up with the "costume" in 5 minutes, ha!

Halloween Parties at school

 

 Cute!

They were getting ready to go trick or treating.

Our friends had a bouncy house and hay ride at their party :)