Let it snow . . . sort of

Last week, while we were getting ready, Kayla was watching the news and told me that we were going to get some snow. We get new channels from Raleigh or Wilmington so I thought that they were talking about one of those areas. Kayla said, "No, they said Fayetteville." Sure enough, when I went outside to warm up the car, there was snow flakes coming down. Of course, it was water by the time it hit the ground or the car, but the kids were pretty excited about it.

Kayla's Baptism

Here is Kayla and Chris on her baptism day.  It was such a wonderful day.  Some of my family flew out from California to be here for her baptism.  Kayla was baptized in the same dress that I was baptized in.  Kayla was so cute.  She said it was like a dream and she was so happy and excited.  It was a very emotional experience for everyone, especially on the heels of Chris' deployment.

One of my favorite moments was when Kayla, Austin, and Blake were supposed to sing and Blake fell asleep.  We tried to wake him up, but he was out!  Kayla and Austin did a great job on the song anyway.

Kayla's 8th Birthday

I can't believe that I have an eight-year old daughter!  For her birthday, we let her invite two friends to go see High School Musical 3.  I have to say that it was so fun watching them at the movie.  They were dancing with the music and I loved all their reactions to the different scenes in the movie.  Austin loves the High School Musical movies just as much as Kayla. 

Kayla is starting to take after me and is becoming quite the cake decorator.  She wanted to help decorate her birthday/baptism cake.  She really did a great job.  I let her pick and decide what she wanted to do for it.  When I have more time, I'll post pictures and tell about her baptism.

Halloween

Halloween was, of course, a fun night.  We started off by carving our pumpkins.  Kayla and Austin were excited to carve their pumpkins by themselves.  I did help Austin a little, but Kayla did her pumpkin all by herself.

Austin took a picture of me cleaning the guts out of his pumpkin.  He did a good job.  It's only a little blurry.

After we carved pumpkins, the kids got their costumes on and got ready to go trick-or-treating.  We went with our neighbors and the kids had a lot of fun and got a lot of candy.  

When we got back, the kids had fun handing out candy.  Kayla was so funny.  She would tell the kids how cute their costumes were, tell them Happy Halloween and then she would tell them to be safe.  She sounded so grown-up.  Our favorite trick-or-treater was Chris, who came to the door and pretended to be a kid and surprised Kayla and Austin.  It was the end of a long and fun day.