The Past Four Days!

I've been on vacation since last Wednesday and it was wonderful! We did a bunch of things starting with Halloween.

Lex has a Halloween parade at preschool and the kids march through the hallways and then meet in the gym afterwards for more pictures....Here's lex with her teacher, Ms. Chanelle.Here's Lex, Ms. Katelyn (lex's other teacher. Lex thinks she looks like Cinderella), Olivia, and Jenny.

On Wednesday evening, we had our friends, Olivia and Andrew (and their Moms and Dads!) over for pizza and trick or treating.

Lex was afraid of any house that had fog, skeletons, scary monsters, shadows. Then she tripped and fell...Needless to say we got off of on rough start with Lex, but after a while, she got her trick or treating groove on.

The kids made it to a bunch of houses and you can see how much candy they received!

On Thursday, Lex stayed home with me and we walked around the lake in Ashburn Village, watched Meet the Robinson's, and went to swimming lessons, where Lex floated on her back for 20 seconds unassisted! YEAH!

Friday evening, We went with ALL of our friends to see the Bee Movie. The kids talked about it all day at school and even invited more friends from school so we had three 4 rows of people we knew. The kids had a great time and the movie was very cute! Lex explained to my mom today that the Bee Movie was funny because "Barry the Bee talked to peoples and EVERYONE knows that Bees can't talk to peoples!"

Anyway, after the movie, 9 adults and 6 kids (Me, Bran, Lex, TAG, Dan, Olivia, Amy, Colin, Andrew, Steph, Marc, Hannah and Ashley, Hav, and Samuel) headed over to Ledo Pizza for dinner. We were quite the scene and took over the entire restaurant with a low roar from the kids and the adults. We had our fair share of tears from each kid for a handful of reasons (thankfully, no parents cried hee-hee), and we were far from quiet... We kept saying that everyone in the restaurant probably wished that had picked a different place to go...Well, we go to pay the bill and find out that a man eating alone in the booth next to us (who had already left), paid for our tab. He told the waitress that he thought it was a good thing we were doing!! We're all not sure what it meant, and only Marc and Hav saw him, but we were all ready moved by his act of genorosity. It was a really sweet thing to do!

Saturday, morning, we headed over to Trace-Ann, Dan, and Olivia's house for pottery painting and our christmas photoshoot with Steph (check out her AMAZiNG work here: http://www.thehipstudio.com/)....

Thanks Trace-Ann for hosting the melee and for Steph for sharing her talent!