Pre-Harvest Festivities



On Friday, Esther was awarded for excellence in PE for third grade
for first quarter at her school. Way to go, Estee! 



Charis' class having their fall party.
Zoe's class didn't do a party.

Charis



Then it was back to Esther's school for her
fall party. Esther is with her good friend Erin.





Esther's teacher, Ms. Vincent



On Saturday we went to Trunk or Treat at Charis' and Zoe's school.
Many of the cars were very creatively decorated.

The girls stand with a stormtrooper.
Loved the costume!

Mr. Ski, the school's VP, led hay rides.

Charis and Daddy on the hay ride.

Esther and Zoe on the hay ride.

This was one of my favorite car decoration/cosutme combinations:
Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog!

Pumpkin Carving

We were invited to a pumpkin-carving party during the weekend. This was Esther and Zoe's first experience with anything "Halloween."*

* As a family, we have chosen to not focus on Halloween, per se. We do let the girls carve pumpkins and dress up (nothing scary). We'll attend Harvest Festival at church and let the girls trick-or-treat at a couple of our neighbors.

We had the girls gut their pumpkins at home to save some time at the party. We brought our own tools, but I didn't bring any stencils because I wanted the girls to come up with something on their own. But Esther chose to use a stencil a friend had a the party. The kids carved their pumpkins, we all had dinner, then one of the dads who wasn't there for the carving judged the pumpkins.

It was a great evening and we really enjoyed getting together with friends.

Charis doesn't like the slime





D and S

K with Lael

C

Zoe

Amy with L and W

C, S and Zoe. These three are so cute together.

W

Y

Charis carving her pumpkin

S and his pumpkin head

Zoe working hard on her design

Esther working on her Cinderella design

Esther's Cinderella

Zoe's face






Charis' happy pumpkin



What a great group!