I love to compare the girls, but Rose needs her own post too!  Here ya go, baby!

Anna Kate’s fever finally broke yesterday, and Rose woke up with one today.  Mike missed some work last week for a really bad cold that we thought might be the flu… thankfully it wasn’t.  I’m asking for God to keep me healthy; I don’t know if he works like a genie in a bottle (ask and you will receive)… I think it’s a little more complicated than we can understand, but in my humanness, I’m asking him to keep me well so I can take good care of these babies.

All these guys are our neighborhood friends, most of them live on our street!

Angela and I have talked about getting a “line-up” picture for the past couple of years, so here it is… 3 are hers, 3 are mine, and the kitty is our newest neighbor, Holly’s first little one.  We have Ainsley (7), Sydney (6), Noelle (5), Colbey (4), Anna Kate (2), Rose (8 mos.), and Berkeley (7 mos.)!

Berkeley and Rose – I love Berkeley’s little hand out front – they were so cute getting to know each other and happily sat together the entire time we took pictures!

This picture just makes me smile… this is community, this is home.

Melt.my.heart – such a sweet first Halloween!

 

The great thing about our neighborhood is everyone has a play mate!  Here’s Malia with Anna Kate, and Noelle with her friend Chloe!

And are you kidding me?  How adorable is this!  Jameson lives right next door and his Mommy Riann and I were pregnant together.  We joked about being next door neighbors in the hospital too, but Jameson ended up being 1 week older than Rose! 

 

I can’t tell you how sweet tonight was!  Rapunzel is Julia, Jameson’s older sister.  I wish she had been there for the line-up in the first picture because she is 3!  Lol!

Malia is always kissing on Anna Kate, which she is used to because Noelle is always kissing on her too.  She’s super cuddly and these guys make great friends!

Watching the boys walk up!

The kids kept on piling in around the babies as they arrived…

It was so funny, the kids just kept sitting there admiring each other and letting us take pictures.  All these guys are used to it!

This is the group making silly faces! 

Noelle and Anna Kate admiring Rapunzel’s hair!

 

Then we all went trick-or-treating together.  Noelle ran into Creighton in his morphsuit!  He always plays chase with her and Anna Kate in the front yard and is such a good kid. 

The kids had a blast trick-or-treating!  Our neighbors went all out with fog machines, decorations, and treats.  Our girls were super impressed!

“Boo!”

Maddy’s daddy was outside telling jokes to the kids before he gave them candy.  They were cracking up all gathered around him!

 

Save the best for last!  Noelle found her school counselor Ms. Arnold and was so excited to get a picture with her!  And this is Lesleigh, Ceighton’s sister.  She is always playing with the girls and even helps Noelle with her homework.  We are so blessed to be right where we are!

Noelle’s teacher’s birthday is today, and I just had to share the card Noelle made for her! 

It takes a lot to get 3 little girls to smile or even look at the camera at the same time.  These pics were comical to me!

Rose kept trying to crawl away from her sisters and in this picture Noelle was concentrating on keeping her seated.

Rose trying to make her escape!

She’s like, “Let me go!”  So we did…

…and then she smiled!

Noelle’s class had a pumpkin day last week where the moms got to come help out with the different pumpkin stations.  The kids worked really hard, got messy, and had a lot of fun!  Here is Noelle with some of her classmates!

 

At my station, the kids got to pick out parts of the jack-o-lantern’s face and while they were doing their assignment, I did the carving.  Their assignment was to color a pumpkin on a sheet of paper, glue orange yarn on it to represent the pumpkin guts, and then they got to dig in the jack-o-lantern for seeds to glue on it as well.  That was just one of the four stations they did.  They were busy!

*I made my shirt while watching the Rangers game the night before (the ghost is my footprint).  I told Noelle I was going to wear a silly Halloween shirt to school, but I made her wait until I got to school to see what it looked like.  She was cracking up when she saw me!  Mission accomplished!

Anytime there is art, Noelle is in the zone!

Landry, Jada, and Noelle were having so much fun making funny faces!  I had a great time helping out at pumpkin day!

Rose – 8 months

Anna Kate – 7 months

           

I love these pictures so much… the epitome of sweet right here!

What a fun memory!  Lovin’ these Pond girls!

Love, Noelle and Anna Kate