HALLOWEEN WAS ...WELL, DIFFERENT. THERE WAS NOT GARDNER VILLAGE WITH MY CRAZY SISTERS, NO APPLE PICKING UP AT HUBER GROVE, NO CRISP FALL DAYS, AND CHILLY NIGHTS BEGGING FOR A FIRE, NO KICKING LEAVES AS WE TRICK OR TREAT, ( it is more of a block party here, all about the adults and getting drunk) NO PICKING PUMPKINS OR HARVESTING VEGETABLES, NO COUSINS HALLOWEEN PARTY, BUT WE DID HAVE......



COSTUMES





PUMPKINS




COOKIES

Celebration has a falling of the leaves every fall. They are tissue paper leaves but the girls do not care they love it. There is food and pumpkins to paint, a pumpkin patch, carriage rides, Bands, dancing, it is kinda like an oktober fest event. Our girls were happy walking through the streets of celebration with a mouthful of cotton candy and a bag full of paper leaves.














Mickey's not so scary Halloween party is the best time to visit Magic Kingdom. Because you buy separate tickets there are no crowds. We enjoyed Disney for 4 hours and rode a day full of rides. 12 in all. Plus candy, candy candy. I love the parade when the headless horseman rides down main street U.S.A. holding a blazing pumpkin. the horse is real and huge, and black. It is awesome.

Early Fall Fun

Early fall in Florida is like summer in most of the northern states. It is still HOT!! HOT!!! HOT!!!. We found ourselves braving the park, (most of them here are shady and lovely) The library was still a good place to break- up the weekend (they are open on Sunday here, doesn't seem right huh?) Mostly we tried to keep from melting .

I love my children's rooms. Yes! they are often messy, unorganized and overstuffed. and if it were any other room in the house I would freak. But there is a sweet story when I really take in my children's rooms. Usually when they are asleep and it is quite. I can sense the happiness they feel in having "their" place. I see little snips of their personalities. I can feel the comfort a blanket gives, or the glow of that special lamp. The million of little things that will become a memory in the future. Sleep well my little angels in your comfortable nests.

We are ready for the fall season.

SHOES

Shoes.. Good grief my girls have shoes. Finally I had had enough with shoes all over the laundry room. I took a large bag to goodwill. They now each have 4 pairs of flip flops (they are like rabbits.. they multiply) 2 gym/sneaker shoes, 3 dress (one white, one black, one brown). It is awesome I love shoes as much as the next girls but less is more when you have to spend 20 minutes deciding on which pair of black shoes to wear......It is time to purge!!!



MATCHY !!!MATCHY!!!MATCHY!!!

I was so confused how I can wanted to be in Florida, then we get moved here and I am wishing we were tucked safe and sound in my little mountain town in Utah. One day soon after the girls started school I realized ... drum roll please.. I am longing for the days in Florida I already had. The days of when my girlies were tiny. A lot people are thinking duh, You have been sulking for months about Jaidyn starting kindergarten.

I guess I am thick!! because It just dawned on me. I am longing for my babies!! Endless sunny day of beach. The tiny toes I once polished with the palest shade of pink digging in the sandy beach. They have been replaced by multicolored toes of personality, painted by the hands of little girls.















Two little girls Chubby legs, that once learned to walk on the beach have been replaced with long and lean powerful legs that can do this...,







AND THIS..





Naps on the beach were a common part of their world, sometimes on Mama under a palm tree. Sometimes in their little duckie sun tent. Now it is go, go from the moment they hit the beach.





After a day at the beach, we use to tuck them in their car seats. Freshly diapered and as sand free as you can get little fat rolls. Give them a bottle or sippy, Happily they sat or slept until we got home for a bubble bath. Now it is a complaint fest, "I am hot", "I am sandy", "I am tired", "I want a drink" "when are we going to be home". The list goes on and on. I am so very happy they are growing up to be happy, funny and smart girls. But I do long for those days when they were tiny. Endless Florida sun. Disney during the week, no lines, now we are hangin with the rest of America and the World during weekends and school holidays. Time for a new normal. And once again time for Brenda to let go!!!






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