Monday, December 26, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Trick or Treat!
It's Halloween night! Here are some of the seven pumpkins we carved!
Sarah went trick-or-treating with mommy and her neighborhood friend, Lissie.
Lucas was the only one of the boys to go out trick-or-treating. Noah and Caleb decided they would rather hang out with their girlfriends. ;-)
Pumpkin carving; School dance
The boys, their friend Tristin and Sarah got busy with the pumpkin carving.
"Ewwww, GROSS! Pumpkin guts!" Sarah couldn't get enough, and had to carve two pumpkins.
Sarah got to meet Captain Jack Sparrow at her first-ever school dance last week! She was shy, and daddy had to do just a little convincing to get her to take a photo with the pirate.
Is Grandpa helping Sarah eat her pizza, or is he showing her his new manicure?
Sarah and a few of her kindergarten classmates sure enjoyed their first school dance.
Gearing up for Halloween
We went to pick out pumpkins at Dehn's Pumpkin Patch in Dayton last week, and Sarah got to meet the perfect Halloween kitten! Luckily, we didn't have to bring him home with us!
"Cheeeeese!" It was quite the effort to get Sarah to hold still for this photo ... she really wanted to get out into the field and pick out pumpkins!
The Princess and the Pumpkin ... Patch.
"Pull faster, dad!"
Sarah's dance class even got into the Halloween spirit with a costume night last week. And candy, of course!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Trip to the apple orchard
Sarah's kindergarten class took its first field trip of the year yesterday! Her daddy and several other moms and dads got to go along with them to the Pine Tree Apple Orchard in White Bear Lake. Here are the kids sitting in a 100-year-old apple storage barn waiting for a quick presentation on the apple-growing process.
Julie, our tour guide, showed us how the apple pickers get the apples off of the trees. This particular orchard had around 15,000 apple trees growing there.
The kids got a quick look at the apples going through the sorting line.
Then we had lunch, followed by a special treat of fresh apple cider and apple donuts provided by the orchard. Here's Sarah eating lunch with her friends, Edison and Hope. These were the three kids in "Mr. Gordon's" group.
Just before we headed back to school, the kids took advantage of a quick photo op.
Little cheerleader
A couple of weekends ago, Sarah got the chance to go to a cheerleading clinic put on by the Osseo High School cheer squad, of which Noah's girlfriend Brenna is a member. That's Brenna on the left, holding Sarah's right foot. Sarah had a lot of fun!
Making friends is easy at cheer clinics!
Sarah gets warmed up the night of the big Osseo Homecoming game. She and the other kids at the cheer clinic got to go out onto the track at halftime and perform the routine they learned the weekend before.
"Dad, is it time to go onto the field yet? How about now? How many more minutes? How about now?"
Here's Caleb messing around with his skateboard. He's really getting along well in the seventh grade at Osseo Junior High.
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Back to school!
After weeks of waiting, Sarah FINALLY got to attend her first day of kindergarten today. Here's mommy putting a few curls into Sarah's hair before we went to the bus stop.
Gotta get a picture with proud mama and papa before the first day of school!
Looks like Noah and his friends Dalton and Jacob went trick-or-treating for their first day of 10th grade. Actually, they're dressed up in the school colors of Osseo High School. If you're looking for pictures of Lucas and Caleb on their first day, Erin completely forgot to snap a photo of them. Rats!
These last two pictures were taken at Sarah's school open house last week. Here she is with her kindergarten teacher, Ms. Loiselle.
Sarah's even got her very own locker! She's trying it out for size.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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