Beauty with Bling

Ear bling, to be specific!  After being granted the go-ahead almost two years ago, Natalie finally worked up the nerve to get her ears pierced.  She is loving having sparkle in her ears!  The only hurdle has been that (after a looooong wait to change them for the first time) she seems to have inherited my sensitive ears and she's had trouble wearing any of the cutesy little earrings she's collected over the last few years.  So far the only earrings that agree with her are the gold studs she had them pierced with.  Looks like only 14 carat gold for this princess (at least for now)...no surprise there, I guess, given this girl's expensive tastes everywhere else!

Daddy Daughter Weekend

Because he hasn't made it to Tahoe with us the last two summers, Corey decided he needed a Tahoe weekend this fall.  The girls had a day off school that I didn't so he decided it was high time for a Daddy Daughter weekend at 6000 feet!  They had a blast!  Natalie is doing a California History project on Vikingsholm at Emerald Bay so that was stop number one on a weekend full of adventurous stops.  They came home happy and tired.  These weekends are such awesome times for all of them.

What a great daddy!

Peace. Love. Tahoe.

Auntie Ammy

Auntie Ammy visited a few weekends ago and we had such a great time with her. We discovered the greatest thrift store downtown, drank lots of coffee, stayed up way too late talking and had fun cooking and baking together.  We're so happy she's only living 3,000 miles away now instead of on the other side of the world!

Happy Halloween!

Well, here we are at the end of October and I'm just sitting down to post again!  That says a little about our month.  It's been full...of school, soccer, sickness, and, finally, Halloween!

This year we had a very cute little witch and a very elegant Renaissance queen.  Super fun, jam packed holiday, as usual.    We carved pumpkins on Friday night (using our power drill...super fun!), got ready for our school Fall Carnival on Saturday, spent the day at the carnival on Sunday and then fit in a school Halloween parade on Monday morning and trick or treated in the rain until past our bedtime Monday night.  What a whirlwind!!

Such a fun holiday.  Cannot believe it's November now!

 Nana has been here to keep us standing through it all!  

Thank you, Nana.  We couldn't do Halloween without her!