Noelle wanted to sing this song in honor of Election Day!

We had so much fun at Emme’s first birthday Sunday afternoon!

Didn’t Elizabeth do an amazing job hosting Emme’s party?  Everything was beautiful!

Emme LOVED opening all her presents and had so much personality!

Opening more presents!

She’s so cute!

Noelle is crazy about little Emme!

Emme’s cousin Jackson is our friend from Tyler (close to Poppa & Rara).  We love seeing him and his sweet family whenever we get together.

John, Ty, Mike, & Beau enjoying the b-day party (I didn’t think to get a pic of us girls – oh well!)

Our sweet little princesses!!!

Thursday night we got together with some friends from Mike’s work to help Tim finish his Big Foot costume.  Missi, Heather’s sister, helped out a ton and the finished costume was amazing!

Noelle was doing any and everything to get the guys’ attention.  Pretty cute!

Tim roams the halls of Texas Power in his homemade costume on Halloween!

Mike’s company had a food drive competition between departments for a local food bank last week.  The rules were whichever department brought the most items per person/per department won.  Mike and I schemed up a really sneaky plan all week long.  Marketing was the department to beat!  Just for competition’s sake, we got the cheapest cost per items we could find that we would still want to eat at home.  On the top of the list were peanut butter crackers, Ocean Spray Jellied Cranberries, and we couldn’t resist Ramen.  To make a long story even longer, we brought all of our items up on Friday (the last day, within 2 hours of the deadline), and totally surprised everyone and… the IT department took home the prize!!! 

CONGRATULATIONS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY!!! 

Mike and Noelle usually go to gym class on Monday evenings, but we did a make-up on Wednesday AM this week.  Noelle was being so funny (goofy) before gym class, so I snapped a few pics.  In the first picture, she was "pretending" to be asleep.

We had so much fun at the Halloween carnival at the Church on Rush Creek last night.  They had tons of great food and so many fun activities for the kiddos.

The cupcake walk!

Games with Daddy! 

Noelle and Mommy with Sharon and her sweet little neighbor.

Noelle & I with Bekah and all her friendzies (yes, Bekah, I said friendzies – haha)!

Bo peeks in on the action!  

Noelley with both of the Prince girls!

Zooniversity was putting on a great reptile show in the family theater.  Noelle was so freaked out by the huge boa constrictor!  

We went to Green’s to buy our produce yesterday (the fruit market as Noelle likes to call it).  Noelle has asked to wear her ladybug costume every day this week, and I say why not!?!  She had fun showing out for the crowd, as you can tell… 

Decorating Mrs. Pumpkin head!

We went to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch with Bailey on Monday and had SO much fun!  It’s been way too long since we’ve seen our buddies (Mommy missed Amanda too)!

Noelle giving the froggy a kiss, and Bailey showing Noelle the way to the teepee! 

It was chilly today, but I could barely talk Noelle into wearing a jacket!

Our cute scarecrows! 

Cut-outs are apparently a big deal to Noelle this year.  She is at the age where she thinks they are fascinating.  She couldn’t believe all her friendzies were there!

She said, "I can’t wait to show Daddy Ariel in my picture!"

Last stop of the day, Noelle’s favorite, Hello Kitty!!!