First Hair Cuts

The girls each got their first hair cuts. Brynn just got her bangs cut by Auntie Lindsay. It was cute and she wears them so well! Addie went to my hair stylist April. She loved going to the salon and being that she's four and only just now getting her first hair cut....she totally needed it! Aren't they both just beautiful?

Addison's Preschool Harvest Performance

 My mom and I attended Addie's preschool performance yesterday.  It was the most adorable thing!  Each class was a different fruit or vegetable.  Her class was dressed in apple costumes that they made themselves in school.  They sang a cute song to go along with their fruit.  When she walked up on stage, all I could see was this green stuff all over her mouth and face!  UGH!  I couldn't believe it!  Come to find out later after talking to her teacher, she kept putting the little worm sock puppet (You can see it peeking out of her apple on her hand in the pictures) in her mouth!  I guess the green dye kept getting on her face.  LOL!  She's always been that kid that puts everything in her mouth!  Guess we still haven't outgrown that.  Oh well, it's a funny memory!

 

Click HERE to see Addison's performance!!!!

Addison and Mrs. Boyce

Mommy is so proud of her!

Nana was so excited to come see her little apple!

Our Little Pumpkin Carvers

We spent the evening carving our pumpkins for this year. I apologize for the nudity in this post...this is Justin's way of preserving their clothes...just take them off!

 Addie did a great job of getting all the seeds out of her pumpkin, even though the word "GROSS" came out of her mouth, along with "DISGUSTING". Brynn put one hand in and said "EEWW" and wouldn't touch it again!

As you can tell, Brynn was SUPER impressed by the whole ordeal!

This is one of the "GROSS" faces.

Brynnie obviously couldn't carve by herself, so this is the pumpkin we worked on together.

 Aw...so cute!

Since Addie picked a very complicated pattern, Justin ended up carving her pumpkin.  She had a bit of a hard time with that....until she saw the final product and then was excited!  TINKERBELL!

Our attempt to get a picture with it lit up...

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Patch Fun

We took two different trips to the Pumpkin Patch this season. The first time we went with my brother and my nieces Cosette and Kaelyn. They played around in bounce houses and rode on jeeps. They had a great time!

A week later we met up with my mom, Shannon, Hannah, Josiah, Chris, Sara, and Abby.  We took the kids to the Cal Poly Pomona Pumpkin Patch.  It was an absolute gorgeous day and the clouds couldn't have been prettier. The kids also really loved running through the corn maze! I got such great shots there, so I chose a few that I really loved.

The most important day of Addison's Life

On September 17, 2012 the angels rejoiced as Addison Emily Blythe prayed the salvation prayer and accepted Christ into her heart.  I was lucky enough to be the one to lead her in the prayer and it was such a joyous and special time.  As parents, from the day our kids are born, we pray that they will grow up and find favor in the Lord and accept him into their hearts.  Today was that day.  The Lord gives us our kids so we can direct them and show them the One True Way.  I praise God that He is now the Lord of her life and pray that He will continue to guide her steps and grow her in His love.

First day of Preschool

Well the day has come.  My baby girl is starting preschool.  She has slowly started to make her departure out of our house and into school.  This year she will only go Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 to 12.  That might not seem like much, but for me it is.  She has only ever taken classes that I've been able to go with her to.  It's weird to think she's in a classroom and I have no idea what she's doing or if she's behaving!  When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up she said an artist and a model.  Then my mom proceeded to tell her that models don't get to eat candy, cake, or cookies, so after some thought, she decided only on an artist.

Here's our big girl!

The main objective this year for us, is for Addison to learn how to be a student.  Being a teacher myself, I know how important it is for her to learn how to function in a classroom so the teacher can really teach the class.   I also know the importance of nice teacher gifts.  Here's what we came up with for the first day of school.

Teacher supplies that all had a cute saying to go with it. LOVE PINTREST!

**Bragging Alert!  After her first day (which was only an hour) her teacher said to me "Wow...she's REALLY bright!".  Aw...I'm blushing!  I said thanks and then asked the teacher to please do her best to show Addie that she's (meaning Addie) not the boss.  Addison is a "right" fighter.  She LOVES to be right (gets this from her Nana maybe?).  She is also a rule follower and wants everyone else to follow the rules.  So these are some traits we are hoping she can work through this year.  Don't get me wrong, we want her learning academic things as well, and she is also a very sweet, loving, kind, generous, out going girl!  We just want to set her up to be the most successful she can be during her school career.  (Man am I putting way too much into PRESCHOOL???!!...if so please don't judge!  It's just a mommy's heart to want all the best for her baby, right?)  So far all is good, (although I guess Addie has argued already that she wants to still write her name in all CAPS...oh Heaven help us!)  We are happy with her teacher and hope the Lord will bless our girl as she grows and matures this year!

Mrs. Boyce and Addison on the first day.

In her classroom

Ready for School!

So cute to finally see my girl's name up in the classroom!