Happy Fifth Birthday Hannah

I can't believe Hannah is 5 already!  She acts grown up, but it still seems like she shouldn't be that big yet.  She had her check up on Monday and everything looks great. 50th percentile for both height and weight:
38.6 pounds
43 inches tall

This is Hannah's last monkey photo.  We decided once she starts school it will be too hard to take them.  So he's officially graduated.  A little sad, but it will be one less thing to try and plan each year.

We had a small family birthday celebration for Hannah and my mom (since her b-day is 4 days later). My sister's friend made the cake/cupcakes again this year.  We went with a Frozen theme, since it's both girls favorite movie.  Lots of fun!

November 2014

My cousin came to visit at the beginning of the month and we had such a good visit.  It had been over 3 years since we'd seen her...WAY TOO LONG!  She finally got to meet Abigail.  =)  We used that as an excuse to finally visit the new Children's Garden at the Dallas Arboretum.  It opened shortly after my mom fell and we just haven't made it out there.  It was REALLY neat.  The girls had a blast.

We took the girls out separately for about 5 minutes and were able to get 2 cute pictures of each of them.  YEAH!  They are so hard to photograph together that we are trying to remember to take them out alone.  And they always do better if it a short 5 - 10 minute mini session.  =-)




 

We enjoyed a quiet Thanksgiving at my parents house.  We cheated this year and ordered from La Madeleine.  YUMMY!  And since we didn't spend the day in the kitchen cooking we got to play at the school playground with the girls and finish up our Christmas card photo shoot.  It was a fun day and we LOVED spending time with family!

Most of our activities are winding down for the semester.  We have a few things at church the first week in December, but everything else it done.  Looking forward to spending time a home.  I hope to do some holiday baking and crafts with the girls!

October 2014

Wow October seemed to fly by...where did the time go!  It was a fun and busy month.  We had some cooler weather so we enjoyed spending time outside.  We've gone to several parks, taken lots of walks, and made a trip to the zoo.  Speaking of the zoo, the last time we were there, we got to feed a flamingo.  SUPER COOL!!  They nibbled bird seed out of our hands which tickled, and we could feel how soft their neck was because it brushed against us.

My mom and I also took the girls to a small church pumpkin patch.  It happened to be HOT this day which is the reason for the sleeveless summery dresses.  LOL!  The girls were fairly cooperative to take pictures, and had fun looking at the scarecrows and picking a pumpkin.



My MOPS group also took a trip to a different pumpkin patch in McKinney.  It was just the right size for preschoolers and both girls had fun.  Hannah even surprised me by getting her face painted.  =)





This post would not be complete without Halloween costume pictures.  I love the idea and look of homemade costumes so I began searching for ideas back in August.  I knew if I let the girls pick the would join the masses of Anna's and Elsa's.  =)  I finally settled on Minnie Mouse for the girls and me and told Nathan he was going to be Mickey (poor guy never gets a choice either).  I ordered 8 spools of red tulle and my mom and I got to work making 3 tutus.  You'll be glad to know that we found our way out from underneath all of that tulle and the costumes turned our REALLY cute!



Lots of fun at our church's Fall Festival this year, but no good pictures. We didn't find time for my mom to take pictures of the whole family this year. So Nathan created a make shift tripod and we tried to snap a few Friday night before heading out to trick-or-treat.  We went to a few more houses this year than in the past and Hannah was actually tall enough to reach the doorbell.