Pumpkin Carving Time

It gets more fun every year as the kids get older. And yes that's a knife in my hand and I look like I'm crazy. Watch out for mommy!

I just love that her hair has gotten long enough for pigtails.

The finished products...Dillon's is a ghost at the bottom. His light flashes on and off so I had a hard time getting it in good light. Cameron's light inside changes from red to blue to green. Pretty cool.

State Fair Fun

We went on our 2nd annual trip to the NC State Fair yesterday. On the way home I asked the kids what their favorite part was. They said, "Everything!"

Cameron and Emily get ready to fly.

Mommy, Lilly, and Dillon on a ride. I was really surprised how much Lilly loved the rides. No fear!

Dillon, Cameron, Joe, and Lilly going down the slide.

A family favorite...watching the BMX Bike show! These guys were amazing!

Watching in the stands...

Joe, Emily, and Cameron up in the top row of Pharaoh's Fury. It went very high. (Cameron was scared.)

Emily poses with the amazing plants. She is growing up too fast.

My favorite: the yummy food! We had corn dogs, a steak sandwich, a bloomin' onion, cotton candy, and candy apples.

Can't wait for next year. I love that the kids are out of school during all these fun fall activities!

Lilly is a true girl

One of Lilly's favorite things to do with her sister, Emily, is to get her toenails painted. While everyone was downstairs getting ready for dinner, Lilly apparently decided to take matters into her own hands for the first time.

I realized it when she called for mom and held her hands out at me through the banister on the stairs. When I came to her, her fingers looked like this...

And her toes looked like this...

When I went up to my bathroom, the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been. There was some nail polish on the bathroom floor and the toilet and a little on the stairs. And the nail polish was not in an easily accessible spot. Let's just say she did some climbing and maneuvering to get to it. Amazingly, she painted every single toenail and fingernail all by herself! And didn't even get any on her Sunday dress. What an independent little girl!

Here's her "I'm tired and I just got caught" pose...

And here's her "Look what fun I had" pose...

The kids are tracked out and we're looking forward to 3 weeks of fall fun! I'll post a little more often to show our adventures. Thank goodness I have my energy back for them.