Fall Party at Preschool

I went to preschool with Trinity today. It was their Fall Party and the kids all dressed up. They trick or treated to the other classrooms and played a bunch of fall games. They ate a nice fall harvest snack.

I didn't dress up or even wear anything related to halloween. I realized today that I don't have anything that would have been appropriate for a preschool class. One of the other Mom's didn't dress up either so I guess it was ok.

Trinity was the weather girl today at circle time. Her teacher Miss Miki was a cat.

the boys playing bingo

playing pin the nose on the pumpkin

Trinity had to wear a nice costume to school. The preschool asked that no child wear scary or mean costumes. They also could not bring fake weapons. Trinity finally decided on a ballerina after going through several other ideas. Her first idea was to be Word Girl but when I told her she could not wear a jet pack and fly she changed her mind.

For Halloween Trinity is wearing this costume...


thanks to Aunt Emily for giving my kids your kids old costumes =)

Pumpkins

Trinity went to the pumpkin patch with her preschool. One of the Mom's that went gave me a picture of Trinity at the pumpkin patch. That is the only one I have of her on her first trip to the pumpkin patch.


Nicholas went to the pumpkin patch with Emily. I got some of the pictures from her myspace.


I "helped" Trinity with her pumpkin while Nicholas was taking a nap last week. I cut the top off and told Trinity she had to pull the seeds out. She looked inside and said "no thanks. You can do that part." Trinity picked out a stencil from the internet. I traced a Cinderella face onto her pumpkin. She helped cut it out. I didn't take any pictures because my hands were messy.

The next day when Trinity was at school Nicholas and I did his pumpkin. I had to pull all the seeds and stuff out because Nicholas wouldn't touch it. I couldn't find a boy stencil that he wanted. He didn't want a normal pumpkin face. I thought I could just take a picture of Nicholas and make that into a stencil. It worked. I photo shopped his face into a stencil and traced it onto his pumpkin. It was cute. Again I didn't take any pictures because my hands were dirty. I also accidentally erased the stencil off my computer.

I was going to take pictures of the pumpkins the other day and the faces have already started drooping and didn't look good anymore. =(

Pictures

This is Trinity's preschool/5 year old picture. She has a fake smile but I thought it was good for being a school picture.

This is Nicholas' 3 year old picture. I took him to the park and took over 100 pictures. I think I need a polarizer lens for the camera. I think more of the pictures would have turned out better if I had one.

New Jeep

A few weeks ago we sold the Jeep Cherokee and bought a Jeep Wrangler. It's a long story about saving gas that doesn't make since but oh well.

Anyway, we took the Jeep up to the mountains on Saturday. We had a lot of fun. It was just Dominick, Trinity and I. Nicholas went to the Pumpkin Patch with Auntie Em and cousin Rachael. The Jeep did very well considering it's not nearly as beefed up as the cherokee was.

It was very foggy that day but we managed to finally get above it. Trinity did some climbing and we even got the binoculars out. At one the stopping points we had a great view of the tops of Mt St Helens and Mt Adams peaking out of the fog. Trinity used the binoculars to see that Mt St Helen's had hardly any snow and Mt Adams was still covered in snow.

Rock Band fun

Trinity loved rocking out with Rock Band. She can't read the song lyrics but she enjoyed hearing herself sing on the TV. She loves to put on a show in front of whoever is watching.


The drums are hard. I didn't even do that well on the drums. I could do the pads with the drumsticks but the foot pedal was not easy. I guess I am not that coordinated. Trinity passed the tutorial but that was just doing one thing at a time.


The singing was fun for me but I think the kids are a little young for this game. I am glad we borrowed it from a friend instead of buying it.

New Shirt

I hate clothes shopping but I received a gift card for JC Penney for my birthday. I found this shirt and had to get it. It's an 'Adventures of Super Grover' long sleeved T. Trinity loved it and wants one too. I didn't even go over to the kids area because I would have been too tempted to spend my gift card on the kids.


We had open house at Trinity's school last night. It was pretty fun. All the kids got up in front of the parents and sang a new fall/Halloween song for us.

I found my video camera charger. It's been lost for awhile now. Dominick cleaned out his jeep (he sold it) and found the charger in his glove box. I am very excited. We didn't have it for 4th of July, family reunion and kids birthdays. We did get a lot of pictures on those days though.

Me and my sister

I had a little get together on Friday night partly for my birthday and partly just for fun. Trinity and Nicholas went to Grandma CC's house for the night. It was fun. We played Texas Holdem', RockBand, and just hung out talking.

Dominick took this picture of Emily and I at the party. It's not the best picture of me but I thought it was a cute picture.

Dominick put on his friends hat. He looks a little Pimp Daddy too me.