Sydney used to easily be the shortest of her friends group. She's catching up. I had to miss her choir concert tonight to be to a church meeting. Luckily Jeff was able to go. Apparently she had a solo part I didn't know about.
We now get to go to middle school orchestra concerts. Erik is learning the violin. Costumes were optional for the concert. Erik is a stick figure.
My kids love cooking competition shows. Right now their favorite is Halloween Baking Championship. We held our own version tonight. The kids had to create a Halloween scene and embellish it with decorated sugar cookies.
I think Brynn was the winner of the championship for being just so darn cute. I don't know what is so funny about a cookie cutter hitting the wood floor.
A mummified Bailey at a friend's birthday party
Sixteen and definitely sweet. She says she's been waiting for this birthday since she was eight years old, because 16 was her favorite number back then. This is a lovely girl. She's a great oldest sister, caring for all of her siblings down to Brynn. She sets high goals for herself and works hard to achieve them. And she's funny. And smart. And beautiful.
Oh man. You're a way better Halloween family than we are. When Jess was here, she talked me into buying pumpkins to carve (I hadn't even thought of it). The uncarved pumpkins are now on our porch, where they will likely stay until a week after Halloween, when we think of them again because they're all moldy and gross. Although, Brad did buy two full-sized plastic skeletons, which Mom suggested we put in Adam and Luke's beds. I don't think they were scared, but we sure thought it was funny.
ReplyDeleteAnd happy birthday to Shebbs! She is all those things you said.