Homecoming

Olivia was asked to be the crown bearer for the band homecoming.  She was thrilled!  She got to ride with the queen and king in the homecoming parade.  Then she got to go with the queen and attendants to the dress store and try on dresses with all the big girls.  It cracks me up how she just interacts with teenagers and adults so well.  She just strikes up a conversation with them and sounds so grown up. 

The night of homcoming she had a constant smile on her face.  She was so happy to be all dressed up and get to go out on the field.  She even got a pretty crosage to wear.  She did woderful, never got shy or tried to back out.  Her favorite part was hanging out with the queen! 

Talking with the teenagers

Brady calls her his wife now!  He was so shy around her and said she looked so pretty all dressed up!

Liv's First Cheerleading Season

Olivia just finished up her first Cheerleading season.  She loved it!  I initally signed up to help with the team but at the first meeting, they had no parent coaches so another mom and I ended up co-coaching.  Since neither one of us knew much about cheerleading, we called in Alex to help.  It was so nice of her to volunteer her time and the team would not have been as good without her!  She made up a dance for their halftime routine and it was cute to watch them perform.  Olivia would get tired after a few cheers and she was always asking for a water break.  Despite her easily tiring out, she still loved and it was so much better than soccer!  We will definitely let her cheer again next year.  She made lots of new friends.  Sometimes Michael wouldn't get to her game until after it started so Grayson would have to be down on the field with me.  Grayson would do some of the cheers with Olivia but as soon as Michael would get there he would promptly have to go into the stands! 

Halloween 2011

Halloween was fun as always!  The kids get to wear their costumes so many times before halloween that by the time the 31st roles around, it's old news.  This year we did lots of fun fall things.  We went to the harvest festival by our house and the kids got to ride ponies, jump on the inflatables, and visit all the vendor booths.  There was also a chilli cook off contest so Michael and I sampled all different kinds of chilli.  Some were really good, some were really bad but by the time we had sampled almost 20 different kinds of chilli, I felt so sick I didn't want to ever eat chilli again!  Next year we decided we'll only try a few different kinds.  We also visited a pumpkin patch in Claremore to get our pumpkins.  While the kids were out of school on fall break, we had the 1st annual Bippus Boo Bash at our house.  It was so fun and the kids enjoyed having their friends over.  We played pin the tooth on the pumpkin and had lots of scary, yummy food!   The kids both had fun events at school.  Grayson and I tagged along on the pumpkin patch field trip with Olivia's class and it was neat to meet some of her friends.  I helped out with Gray's trunk or treat at preschool and that was fun too. 

I love this picture..you can see the joy written all over Luci's face!

All the kids at the party, they all looked so cute!

Mommy and Olivia enjoying the hay ride at the Harvest Festival.

 She is one happy girl when she gets to ride a pony!

Getting her face painted..a pony of course!

At the pumpkin patch

We love family days!

We brought our own clothes and got to stuff a scarecrow at the pumpkin patch.

All done!

Not happy that I'm trying to make him take a picture.

Olivia's pumpkin patch field trip at school.  Grayson and I were happy to come along!

Trunk or Treat at Grand Central Preschool. 

Seriously, could they be any cuter?

And finally, Halloween night.  Our old neighbor Tripp came and went trick or treating with us.  Luci came along too.  It was so funny, at one point Grayson didn't make it up to the house with the other kids to ring the doorbell so he just decided to stick his hand in some random child's bucket as he as leaving the house.  Needlesss to say, the kid was did not like that idea!