Picking the Oranges

When we got home from Dallas, we found that someone had helped themselves to some of the oranges from the orange tree in the side yard, so we figured it was time to pick the rest of them.

Julia picked the ones she could reach herself.

 

 Then she helped Daddy with the rest of them.

Hotel Dallas

Neil had a conference in Dallas the week after Thanksgiving in a nice convention hotel, so we told Julia we were taking her and Emilia to "Hotel Dallas".

The girls enjoyed the room.

 We even let them use the comfy chair as a trampoline.

They had a big courtyard area all decorated for Christmas.

 And they had a big ice sculpture display of the the Madagascar movie characters.

Renaissance Fest

We went to the state Renaissance Festival with friends from church in November.

Emilia enjoyed getting to ride around a little higher up.

 They also had more modern entertainment at the festival, and Julia was drawn to the bungee jumping.  I don't know if she really understood the harness she had to get into.  It made it hard to walk and she almost didn't make it up the stairs.

 Once she got on it though, she had a pretty good time.

 She was disappointed when it was time to get off and almost didn't get out of of the bungee enclosure.

Party at the Preschool

Julia's preschool had a fall festival.  Julia had a lot of fun.

She got to ride a pony . . .

. . . Play on toys . . .

. . . and make friends.

Cupcakes

It doesn't take much to make Julia so happy that she's giddy and silly, but cupcakes definitely do the trick.

 

Cooking

The girls are starting to want to be like Mom and cook in the kitchen.

Halloween Fun

A few pics from this year's Halloween.  Raquel found some fun pumpkin facial features that Julia enjoyed playing with. 

  They celebrated Halloween on Tuesday at Julia's preschool program.  She couldn't believe one of her teachers was Buzz Lightyear.

Emilia went as a kitty this year, which worked out well when she attended the Halloween party at our neighbor Vicki's cat boarding business.  Go Catnip Inn!!!

Julia was really excited to go as Snow White this year.