More Halloween Pictures

Nate and I had pretty original costumes.

Anna's Nemo again.

Caroline's Sleeping Beauty again.

The whole Halloween fam.

Independent Anna

Anna doesn't like me to walk her to preschool anymore (which is just across the street). She wants to go by herself. I snapped a few photos of her riding her "bike" to school this morning.

Halloween!!

The girls had a great time trick-or-treating on Halloween. Our neighborhood is really kid-friendly and they got lots of loot. In addition, they wore themselves out and went to bed early. If only every night could be Halloween...

Caroline as Sleeping Beauty

Anna as Nemo

New Cutest Picture of the Girls

I got the girls to sit next to each other without fighting for about the five seconds it took to take this picture. Then they were back to their usual ways...

Ready for school

I thought Caroline looked so cute in her hand-me-down zebra dress from Ella that I took a picture of her before school this morning.

America's Top Models

We can't take a picture of Dad and his fish without taking pictures of our beautiful selves. Note Anna's beautiful new haircut. Courtesy once again of herself.

Something's fishy around here

Nate's fish he caught up Mayfield Canyon. She fought him so hard that she broke his fishing pole and almost had to sacrifice his cell phone as he dove into the water to wrestle her down.

I told him we should mount it on our wall. But I think we'll eat it for dinner tomorrow, instead.

Future G-gettes

The girls went to a mini-drill camp this week with the high-school drill team. They (or Caroline, rather, since Anna decided she didn't want to) danced at the football game last night. The dancing was really cute, but the football team was down 28-0 when we left just after half time...

The girls with our neighbors Katie and Allie Wegener.

Gee...

We hiked up to the "G" on the hill for FHE a few weeks ago.

The girls thought it was fun to throw rocks down to the town. You can see one of Anna's rocks in midair. I'm such a good photographer that I can get action shots...

Our little town. 

Grandma's Girls

The girls were wimpy a few Sundays ago and thought it was too cold to walk to church without sweaters. They both picked our the sweaters that Grandma Parnell made for them. They looked so cute I made them pose in front of our door that we are oh, so slowly finishing.

San Diego 2

We lost our camera before we could upload the rest of our pictures from San Diego. I found it last week in our underused diaper bag. These pics are from our trip to the dock.

Out of the Mouths of Babes...

Exasperated at Anna, who is a smart three-year-old but who has absolutely no interest in potty training, and upset at having to change my one millionth poopy diaper with no foreseeable end, I said, "Anna, why can't you go poop on the potty? Why is it so hard for you?"

To which Anna's reply was, "Because I'm so so special."

Twinkle, Twinkle

The girls and I went to visit Dad at his school and the microphone was on in front of the stage. Enough said.

Anna's Haircutting Adventure

I came downstairs last week to find hair everywhere in the house. Anna had gotten hold of a pair of paper scissors from a drawer and cut every...single...hair...on...her...head. Some as little as an inch off, some with only a few centimeters left. 

BEFORE:

She cut Caroline's hair, too. Pretty much everything just above the ear. I tried to do Caroline's hair in a french braid yesterday, and the spots where it's just an inch long were really noticeable. I guess we're not going to do a french braid for a while. When it's down, it's really hard to tell, so we didn't have to cut ALL her hair off.

DURING:

AFTER:

Our good friend Mollie is a genius with the scissors. I didn't think there was any hope for Anna's hair when I saw it, but it looks so cute now. She gets compliments from strangers in the store now, which I really cringe at. She does look cute, but I'm worried that she thinks it looks so good because SHE cut it. Both of the kids have been grounded from Webkinz for a week. Take that.

First day of kindergarten

We thought the bus came twenty minutes later than it does in the morning, so we didn't get any pictures of Caroline the morning of her first day of school. Maybe it worked out for the best, since she just had to run out the door to get to the bus in time and didn't have time to worry and be scared of what was coming. 

Anna and I waited out on the lawn for the bus to drop Caroline off after school. I finally had the camera, so Anna insisted that I take a pic of her.

Caroline after getting off the bus. She's holding the picture that she colored of "Chester" the raccoon.

Anna and James wanted their pictures taken while Caroline and James's sister Emma got their first-day-of-school pictures taken together. Emma lives across the street from us and is in Caroline's class. They have FOUR kindergarten classes at the elementary school. Emma's mom, Miss Emily (nee Bench), is from Moroni, so it's good for me to have a friend who understands how superior North Sanpete is to South Sanpete.

My Klingon Baby

Anna knocked over a hopper full of tennis balls at our tennis practice this morning. The side of it banged her right between the eyes. It's hard to tell from these pictures, but she really does look like a cute little Star Trek character. Live long and prosper.

Caroline's "Poke"

I took Caroline to get her pre-kindergarten shots today. It turned out that our insurance will only cover certain shots if they're administered in the doctor's office, yadda, yadda, yadda, so Caroline could only get one of her many shots at the health department. She was so brave that we went to McDonald's for lunch afterwards.

Sidenote: With a pose like that, don't you think she's the future Miss Gunnison Valley? I'd better get her started on piano lessons...

Days Gone By

I just found these pictures on the video camera. They were taken on Christmas Day of 2006, while Nate was still in Iraq.

It seems so long ago...

Time Out!!!

Anna bit Caroline on the arm the other day and the result was an extra-long time out sentence. I watched from the couch as her eyes got heavier and heavier and finally closed. 

About fifteen seconds after I took this picture Anna's head fell off of the back of the chair and she spooked awake.

Sunday Best

I wanted to take a picture of Anna with her cute new scripture case that Jenny and her family gave her for her birthday, and Caroline couldn't resist getting her picture taken, too.

You may note that the bright-green case matches Anna's bright-green-flowered dress perfectly. Coincidence.

Caroline's wearing a dress that Grandma Parnell gave her for when she starts kindergarten next week. We decided it would work as a church dress, too, until she gets too tall.

San Diego Zoo!!!

Silly bushes pretending to be elephants.

The girls and koala.