Festival of the Nativities

Last week we went to a Festival of the Nativities hosted by our stake. It was a wonderful event with more than 500 nativities from more than 100 countries around the world. They had a childrens room where the kids could dress up.

We think Hannah makes a perfect Mary and Rachel makes a perfect angel.

Beautiful Princesses

Whenever Rachel is asked what her name is, she says "My name is Cindelella."

Clifford The Big White Dog

Naomi's Halloween Dress

Naomi got a matching skirt.

Halloween Dresses

Thanks, Nana! We love our beautiful new dresses!

Hannah

The other morning Hannah thought she looked extra cute on her way to school and asked me to take a picture. The cat she is holding was her sharing item for that day.

Halloween Train

On the Saturday before Halloween we took the girls on the Snoqualmie Halloween Train. They got to wear their costumes and ride the decorated train.

They got spider rings.

Sisters.

Me and my cute girls.

Here is the conductor. He was pretty funny.

Going over one of the bridges across Snoqualmie River.

Silly ghost faces.

The girls had so much fun wearing thier costumes and running around by the train.

Here is Hannah hiding behind the totem pole. She would jump out to scare people and shout "Boo!" then laugh and say "ha-ha! It's only Hannah!".

One of the local bakeries offered free sugar cookies when you showed them your Halloween train ticket.

It was so fun! Hooray for the Halloween train!

Finally Halloween Costumes!

Here are the pictures from Halloween night. Finally. I am going to back-blog a bit after this post because there are more halloween type posts that I don't want to leave out. But for now, here are the girls at our ward Trunk or Treat event.

My Mom and I made Hannah's costume (mostly my mom, but I helped, too). Hannah loved it even though everyone thought she was a beautiful angel, or a princess, or a winter fairy. She's a ghost people. And she told them so, too. "I'm a scary ghost! Boo-oo-oooo!"
Hannah tried to eat Rachel's donut. She was unsuccessful.
I didn't get any pictures of the actual trick or treating (bummer!) but here are our pumpkins.

Dan's pumpkin. Now Rachel recognizes Homer.
This is Hannah's pumpkin (pumpkin carving post to come soon).

All the pumpkins together.

Stay tuned for more Halloween posts.

Sunday In SF

Here are a few pictures of the girls in their matchy-matchy dresses.

New-do!

If I had to guess what Rachel would be when she grows up I think I would guess Cosmetologist. Just like my Grandma.

I've posted about how much she likes to dress up. But lately she's been wanting her hair done. And she knows what she wants.

As many piggy tails as she can get. Topped off with a few headbands and clips.

Here she is bringing me MORE elastics.

She likes to carry around the little drawer that houses all the "hair fixings."

Everyday she wants her hair done--and she cries when I stop at one or two.

So far our record is 8 piggy tails (plus several headbands and clips).

Oh, Rachel! We love you.

Sunday Dresses

We had a sunny Sunday and the girls got to wear some of their cute new dresses.

Aren't they cute?

Poor Rachel wanted to go for a ride in the wagon.

Happy Sunday!

And Happy Mothers Day!