A Magical Surprise!

We had a Monday off from school for a Jewish holiday, and Jacob had a mandatory workday, so I decided to take Mady and her friend to the Magic Kingdom for the day. It was a total surprise to them and they were beyond excited. Even after making them wear Minnie Mouse t-shirts and their pirate princess ears, they still didn't know where they were going until they saw the sign. It was a fun day and not too bad with both girls by myself. They even got to go to pirate school, which I think was the most fun they've had there in a while.

Story Book Character Day

This year Lawton held its 1st annual Story Book Character Day. The K and 1st grade students participated and dressed up as their favorite book character. Of course, Mady immediately chose Fancy Nancy. She has all of the Step Into Reading books and a few other books. I found her shoes and dress at a consignment shop for less than $10 and the rest of the accessories were from our dress up closet.

Halloween

We did so many events for Halloween this year! We went to a Halloween party at a friend's house, Halloween Spooktacular at Sea World, the pumpkin patch, Zoo Boo Bash, made Halloween trail mix for Mady's class, and a Halloween party on Halloween night with trick or treating. Mady was a belly dancer and KK was a bumble bee. Here are some of the pictures from Halloween.

Sanibel Island

The first weekend in November we always travel to Sanibel Island to meet up with my best friend from college and her family and her husband's family. It's always a great time and the weather is always beautiful. We had a great visit and the kids played so well together!

Eating ice cream at Pinocchio's. It is a must every time we visit!

Relaxing on a float in the pool. The weather was perfect!

There was a wedding Saturday night on the beach and the aisle was lined with shells from the beach, but they had been cleaned and were perfect! The next day you could still see the aisle lined with shells so we took the girls there to collect shells and ended up with the most perfectly shaped and cleaned shells!

KK, Mady, Will, Paul, and Owen hanging by the hot tub!

Mady and Owen out on the boat for a ride. This is Mady's favorite thing to do. Unfortunately we never made it out to the sandbar to look for sand dollars.

Exhausted from playing all day at the beach and pool!

Best friends out to dinner!

While we vacationed with the Scholtz families we were apart of a "familymoon" (Scott's mom had just gotten married) and an engagement (Scott's sister got engaged Sunday night). Here we are at the bar by the pool celebrating with Shirley Temples!