Thursday, November 22, 2018

November! Let the Holiday season begin!

November 1st started with our tradition - CHRISTMAS LOVIES! :)







They still get so excited about all their Christmas stuffed animals that come back to play each year.

The girls bought me a new toy when they went to Meijer with Ryan - a little singing Christmas squirrel. He is adorable. :) 



The weekend of daylight savings time - the girls were up early! So we did a donut run to Meijer :)

Camryn has been wearing a dress from when I was little quite a bit. She looks so cute. :)

Cool kid

Mama sandwich :)

At church, she drew a picture of the 3 Wise Men. :) So cute. '


We had some beautiful fall days!




Camryn had her 50th day of school - and she dressed up for it.



She also started ballet!




This is a typical look at the end of each school day - homework. Luckily the girls mostly decide to get it started on their own, and finish it right when we get home.

They made breakfast one Saturday morning.


Weekends are for being cozy ;) 


Junie B. Jones, the Musical, was being put on at Zeeland Middle School, and I took the girls to see the play. They loved it! It was really entertaining, and really well done!




And another tradition we did this month was going downtown for the Holiday Open House. We stopped at Crane's first for dinner, saw reindeer, and Santa!





Lots of pretend Christmas play - including wrapping presents for Lambie!


Also found a little time this month for time out with a friend. :)
Thanksgiving, and lots of Christmas coming soon! It's the most wonderful time of the year! :) 

2018 Special Olympics Row Raiser

Crossfit Lake Effect hosted a fundraiser for Special Olympics this fall, again, where teams of 10 row the distance of a marathon.

It was near Halloween, so each team dressed up a bit. We went with a "Motio Sports Therapy" theme - and covered ourselves in RockTape.



It was a really good event, and over $30,000 was raised for Special Olympics!

Pumpkins, Parties, Costumes, and more!

This Halloween we had a little Dorothy from Wizard of Oz, and also a pineapple!

Our first Halloween event was the 1st grade pumpkin carving party with Camryn's class at school. I carved an owl for Camryn, and Taylor went a little more traditional. :)




The Slagh's had their traditional soup and carving party, too. It took a long time to carve the owl that Cam wanted - I was the last one in the garage carving! All the pumpkins turned out so cute, though.











The day of Halloween was a really nice day!
It has been tradition to dress up for the morning class - Leslie, Kalee, and me!

I took the afternoon off to help out with Taylor's class party and watch the school costume parade.










The girls went around the neighborhood with their friends from down the street - lots of good candy as always! :)