Her Best Effort

Emma's teacher called me and said she would be receiving an award at the school's award's assembly, so being the good mother I am, I went to support her and take pictures. There were three categories: Academic, Citizenship and Best Effort(apparently not top in the class, but sure tries hard.) Emma earned the latter. I was very proud of her, she does try very hard. The funny thing was a few days later Abbey announced that she got the academic award. I told her that yes, she got that last year, but we were talking about this year. She went to her backpack and pulled out her academic award to show us that she indeed did receive it. The 4th grade was in a later assembly and her teacher had not called me so no pictures of her achievement. Not feeling like such a good mom now.

Emma is in the middle of the back row in the stripes.

Leaves are falling all around...

Well, everywhere but our house. We hope to remedy that this year. To get our fix, we went to Grandma and Grandpa to rake leaves. All fought over different tools, but that's pretty much how it goes at our house. We had fun anyway.

Asher's help was just a bit counter productive, but he sure had a good time.

Chop, Chop

I hit the six year cycle this year. The one where I get so fed up with my hair that I chop it all off. Ya, that one. The last time I did this was before Emma was born and the last time before that was before I got married. My hairdresser cut me a chin length bob and then I begged her to go shorter. When she was done, she looked a bit concerned and said, "Your not going to cry are you?" No, no tears. Hair always grows back, well, for most of us anyway.

Favorite Things

Although, Spring will always be my favorite season, Fall is a close second for many reasons.

When soccer season is over, we can resume our Saturday morning ritual of pancake breakfasts. I don't even have to make the pancakes anymore.

There is nothing I love more than soup(well, maybe good Indian food) and Fall is the perfect time to dust off all my recipes. I will be eating in these babies all winter long. The best part is the 1.50 price tag at Tai Pan.

Reflecting

The theme for The Reflections contest this year was, "Wow." A little broad, but doable. All girls were willing participants.

Since Emma's only love is dogs, she drew this and Paul helped her name it, "Bow Wow" 

I can't recall what Claire named this, but she thought space was pretty wow.

Upon our return from the magical kingdom, this was the only way to go for Abs. Although her sisters were wrapping up their projects after only 30-60 minutes, Abbey spent hours and hours on this and spared no expense on the details. It's no wonder she went on to the district level while her sisters did not.

We were suckers for frozen treats in any form.

The tea cups were a must.

One of their favorite parts of the trip this year was finding the different characters.

Yes, this is our family walking past the crazy tourists.

In all its' glory. Did I mention that is is approximately 2 feet by 3 feet and she colored it all with colored pencils?