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A couple days of Autumn.
We enjoyed a couple of cool days to celebrate the arrival of Fall. We even had a touch of rain... not enough she needed a rain poncho, but enough it was fun to dress up for a few minutes. |
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Laughing girl.
Abigail enjoyes giggling with Holly. |
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Birthday Girl
Happy Birthday to Eloise, who celebrated her 8th Birthday. |
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Birthday dinner.
Eloise enjoyed a "make your own" pizza night. |
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Party Day.
Eloise had a Haunted Halloween Party for her birthday. She took charge of the haunting. |
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Abigail in party clothes
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Ready for the guests to come.
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Testing out the main attraction.
It was amazing to watch how well adapted a 3 year old body is to endless jumping. It looks so natural it becomes freakish. |
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Party guests.
Eloise and I had fun making spiders for her party. |
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Party time.
The party girls enjoyed decorating little pumpkins. |
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Classic fun.
The teeter-totter always attracks a crowd. The classsic toys never go out of style. |
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Birthday cake.
Many thanks to Holly for cake decorating! |
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Cake time.
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Now officially 8.
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Party time
We enjoyed a day at Disneyland with Holly and her niece. |
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Waiting.
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Special Birthday Treat.
If you look carefully you may see a boat full of people traveling through a bayou behind her. |
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Working her vegetables.
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Haircut time.
Abigail got her first official haircut. We trimmed her bangs. |
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She likes the results.
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Girl with bangs.
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Mud.
My plan was to let the grass grow over this patch of border garden this year. The girls plan was to claim a spot for digging. |
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Pretty Dresses.
Abigail isn't being goofy for the sake of goofiness alone. She is very interested in seeing what she looks like when she is making faces. One of her favorite games right now is to strike poses and make faces and have me take her picture so she can see. "Mom, take a picture of me like this... now like this..." |
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Pretty Girls
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Eloise.
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Abigail.
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Relaxed.
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Goofy.
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Ponytail.
Abigail was curious to try a ponytail. She almost has enough hair to pull it off. |
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Ready for Trick or Treating.
Abigail enjoyed dressing up with her butterfly wings. |
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Looking sweet
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Shy?
Nope... and not just looking at her wings. She is hiding from Mom just to be silly. But she looked very sweet. |
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Butteryfly and the ghost.
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2nd costume.
Abigail wanted to be Rapunzel, she went searching for a dress and for long hair. She had a pink scarf for back-up in case she needed more hair, but she liked this. |
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Short ghost.
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Running ghost
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At the trunk-or-treat.
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Ghost in the night.
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Carving pumpkins
We grew our own pumpkins this year. The girls thought they came out extra slimy inside. |
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Taking charge of her own pumpkin.
Eloise cleaned out her own pumpkin (almost), planned her pattern and did her own carving. |
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Eloise's Pumpkin
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The pumpkins.
Abigail's pumpkin is the happy face. |
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Halloween pals.
Mitch and Fen joined us for Halloween. The girls had a great time trick-or-treating with them. |
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Baptism day.
November 3. We are so proud of Eloise and how much she was looking forward to this day. |
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At the temple.
We are fortunate to have the Redlands Temple right next to our stake center where Eloise's baptism was held. We enjoyed a little time wandering the temple grounds before her baptism. |
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Our family
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Girls with grandparents
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Friends at her baptism.
Eloise with her cousins and her best friend. |
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Eloise and her Dad.
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Eloise and Grandma Jones
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Enjoying another day in her dress.
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Sunday Girls.
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