Happy Birthday Taylie!

Yesterday was Taylie's 4th birthday! I can't believe what big girl she is. She can spell and write her name and sound out simple words. She is learning so much every day and tries to be so much like her big sister. She has such a cute little personality and our family would be incomplete without her. She's our curly haired cutie. She's our tiny and petite one. Mike always tells her that good things come in small packages, and he's right. I love you so much, Pancake! I am glad you had a happy birthday!
We had a little party for her on Saturday with some friends, and then yesterday our friends, the Hinkles, came over and had birthday dinner and cake with us and watched Tay open her presents. She had a fun weekend. Her party on Saturday was a "Paper Bag Princess" party. We read the book "Paper Bag Princess" (why can't I underline?), and then the girls all colored on their paper bags and got to be paper bag princesses. Here's a picture of my girls in their paper bags.

Taylie only wanted to color with the orange crayon, so it's hard to see, but they had fun. I love my little princesses!

Halloween

Didn't Mike do a great job on the jack-o-lantern?
We trick-or-treated in our little neighborhood this year. Mike was an AMA Twin Class Rider (Motorcycle racing), I was a witch, Amy was a very pink butterfly, Taylie was a "Wabbit", Macey was a black and orange cat, an Jack was a puppy dog. We had about 150 trick-or-treaters come to our house this year (less than last year), but we still ran out of candy. We went out early (about 6), and then came back and ate popcorn and watched a movie while Mike and I switched off on handing out candy. I didn't get a good picture of Mike, but here's some of the kids.

I couldn't get Jack to hold still for a picture, so this is the best I got. Hope you all had a happy Halloween!