The invitations...

=One afternoon last week I sat down to write out Abbey and Michael's birthday party invitations. They were very curious about what I was doing so I gave them the extras to fill out. They had so much fun!

When I put the invitations into the envelopes, Abbey asked to put hers in too...sooooo every family got two invites; one from me and one from the kids. Very cute if I do say so myself!

SO much concentration! Check out my righty and my lefty!

DONE!

Yeeessssss! My report cards are DONE! Apparently it IS possible to write an entire class set in one long weekend! ha!ha! My reports will be exceptionally difficult this year because I have 9 students in my class for the third year in a row! How many different ways can you tell a parent how their kid is doing?!? Anyway I did my best and I'm happy with them...I always worry until the day they go home and then...well...you can't worry anymore right?!?

Here's a picture of my report card work station...complete chaos...but organized chaos!!

SURPRISE!

A week ago at this time I walked into my house after school to find my parents sitting on my couch holding my children! Whoa! I couldn't believe my eyes! After screaming and crying, I finally composed myself. What a wonderful surprise!!!
We had a super visit; played outside, had a great lunch at Wheaton's, laughed and ate so so well (Thanks to my Mom!)...and then Hurricane Noel came. High winds, tons of rain and no power!!! Who could have predicted the weather!?!
No tropical storm could damper our spirits though and I am already counting down the days until their Christmas visit. Thanks Mom and Dad for making my month!

Halloween!

For the last two months Abbey and Michael have said they wanted to be dragons for Halloween...that is until Abbey saw our 4 year old neighbour Eva dressed in a princess costume. Needless to say, she changed her mind quite quick. SO a dragon and a princess it was then!

I must have taken 35 pictures before going trick-or-treating and believe it or not these are the three best. Pathetic I know! They just would not cooperate (at the same time!!)

We had such a great time and the kids LOVED dressing up and getting all the candy. It was a wonderful evening! We had around 80 kids to our door...a far cry from the 9 we had on the first Halloween we were here. Halloween has never really been my favourite holiday but I'm seeing it in a whole different way now that I have kids of my own! Can't wait for next year!

This is my friend Alisa and her family. They win the prize for the best family costume EVER!!! She's pregnant so she went as the oven, her husband went as the Bun Maker and her little boy Jeremy went as a loaf of Wonder bread. Genius eh?!? I just had to post their picture because it's such a great idea!!!

Hope everyone had a spooktacular Halloween! Boo!Boo!Boo!