halloween weekend part 1...

ok! here it is! my first blog post! please forgive my errors and typos because it's 2 am (well, really 1am with the time change). late night seems to be the only time that i can use the computer and not get interrupted. even ella knows how to surf the web now!

we have had a great weekend so far. friday was the harvest festival for anna's preschool on base. the party included games, horse rides, a small pumpkin patch, sparky the fire dog and even crime dog mcgruff. anna got to spend a lot of time with her friends from school, and she was so excited. she just kept running and skipping to all of the different games and entertainment and waving and saying hi to her friends all along the way. ella had a great time too. she had her first pony ride. she wasn't too sure about the bumpiness of it, and by the end she was almost in tears, but she tried so hard to be brave. she loved playing with all of anna's friends too. and she really enjoyed the snow cones. :D

they wore their halloween costumes to the party. there's a kind of funny story behind anna's costume. for weeks she has been wearing a cinderella costume that i bought at the disney store on clearance awhile back. i mean she wore it night and day. she even insisted that we call her cinderella instead of anna. well, as halloween came closer i asked her what she wanted to be, and without hesitation she said, "a witch." lol! that totally came out of nowhere! luckily for me my grandma had sewn a witch halloween costume for me (or my cousins --- i'm not sure who had it first) when we were kids. so my mom sent it to me and she wore it so proudly. ella, on the other hand, always wanted to be a princess and had to be sleeping beauty because she has a pink dress. that girl knows what she wants and sticks with it! here are a few pictures from the festival.