Pictures!

Our friend has his own small photography business. He had asked us if he could use our girls to photograph for new marketing. In return for free family photos we said - sure! Here is a link to a few of the photos he blogged about. We are anxious to see the rest. It was a fun day and the girls (Mia really did great) had fun posing.

Caporale Girls - Mona Lisa smile?

During a playdate yesterday we saw a coyote in our friends neighbors backyard! The kids were excited to see it.



Annie having an early Turkey treat from Sweet Mandy B's!



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poor bosco

Big huge storms popped up Saturday afternoon out of nowhere! Dad had just left to go on a 20 mile bike ride and the weather looked great. About 30 minutes later the skies turned black and Bosco got really scared...we all jumped into Mia's bed to hide out from the storm. Dad texted us to say he was ok (he was biking on a local trail and had driven to it), he was also hiding out..in the Van! After the storms passed, he was able to finish up his bike ride. Bosco was able to resume the rest of his day too.


Sunday our friends hosted a local fun run in honor of World Run Day...Mia enjoyed running with her friend, they ran .54 mile....


Annie ran too...for a little bit, then I pushed her in the stroller for 1.4 miles. It was a beautiful day!

Friday was also the first time that the girls were babysat but someone other than grandma! Our friends daughter is 13 and Annie and Mia love her...so we dropped the girls off at their house on Friday night so we could attend a coffeehouse talk at the church then we went out with our friends to hear live music at the local pizza place in town...what a fun night! The girls were asleep when we picked them up but they had a blast with their friends...next time we will have our sitter come to our house!

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Vote!

We've been talking about the presidential election in our house. We've read (Mia has read the first one to us)....



And had some mock election votes for what to eat for breakfast, lunch and who to vote for. We added in Jason Mraz as the green party - he got Annie's vote. We plan on taking the girls to vote tonight so they can see it firsthand - dad and mom will take each girl into the booth - only they will know who we vote for!

daylight savings

We have all adjusted just fine to the time change, just don't like how dark it gets so early! It was sure nice to have that extra hour, I always feel it the Monday morning after...ahhhh

Mia is reading like crazy all of my trade books from when I was a teacher. She is just reading and reading while I make dinner. Annie is drawing me pictures of certain colors I tell her to draw, she even got GRAY correct. Such smart girls we have....
Annie is a barrel of laughs...when we ask her to count (she can count up to 20) will say
1...2...3... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Some pictures from the weekend.... Mia's friend Jacob's huge birthday party, Mom and Dad climbing the Willis (sears tower) on Sunday, Dad's 4th time, Mom's first (finished with PR 23:44 for dad, Mom 23:51)

Mia hit the pinata like a champ


Annie attacked it like a hacksaw!











Our view....

growing growing gone!

We were talking at dinner tonight how Mia will be in Kindergarten next year - and I said I will cry the day she goes. I could start crying now. It hit me the other day while I was rocking Annie to sleep before her nap that Mia will never be a little baby again...and I go so teary eyed. We rush so much to get past the baby stage (at least I feel I did) that all of a sudden they are grown and we are trying to hold on to them as long as we can! Mia is so amazing...beyond smart and so mature. She is so loving and adventurous and if I were a little girl I would want her to be my friend.


Mia and her friend Sophie - singing for the Cherub Choir at church

Mia making a pumpkin patch for Papa before his visit last weekend



Before ice skating lessons this week - she is super excited to start up again...
Tonight Mia told us she wants to start Karate and Horseback riding when she is "5" and when she is "older" she wants to learn how to "surf and do all sports like baseball". She said soccer is her favorite sport to play so far :)
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Happy Halloween

Mia's Halloween preschool party - they read books, sang songs and took a preschool parade around outside. Then we all had snacks. Mia was a great cat!






























Grandma came to visit and stay for lunch. Dad came home early.
Then later we went trick or treating. Sophie and Kris joined us which was lots of fun. We walked around for about 1 hour and a half. The kids were able to go to many houses. The beagles came dressed as Santa and Minnie Mouse. It was chilly as the sun set so we were ready to come in and have our roast beef dinner. We watched The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown before bedtime.

Dad made Mia a Tinkerbell pumpkin, I made tried my best an Elmo pumpkin for Annie...then we just did a spooky face for dad and mom's pumpkin.