Dress Up Song And Dance - Favorite Princess

This class, Makayla got to dress up like her favorite princess so she chose Belle from Beauty and The Beast. Notice the stalker mom in the window taking pictures!!

Dress Up Song And Dance - Bring A Friend

We enrolled Makayla in the Dress Up Song and Dance class at the Steinbach Arts Council. What a great program! She LOVES it! Not only do they learn all types of dance, but every month is a theme and every class you can get create and dress up according to the theme. The first month was an animal theme so one class we got to pin a tail to their body suits, wear shorts and a hat to "go on a safari" etc. This class we got to bring a friend so Makayla chose her good friend from across the street, Reese. They were absolutely adorable!!

Side by side!

First Day of Preschool

September 16, 2009

" How excited are you?"

Our Family Trip To Fargo

September 12, 2009
We drove down to Fargo for a mini family vacation with my parents. We had such a great weekend. The pool had a sunken pirate ship loaded with slides and tunnels for the little kids. And the mall was situated just across the street for the big kids!

I had also purchased tickets to see Miss Britney Spears! She put on a fantastic concert! Full of high enery!

Roughin' It

Makayla has never slept in a tent and this last summer I wanted to try camping in the back yard with her to see how she would do. But if it wasn't wet and cold, it was warm with blood thirsty mosquitoes. So, I decided to set the tent up in our basement and sleep in it for the night. We had such a good time!!

Makayla's first night in the tent!

We then decided to have some fun and take some funny pictures of ourselves!

Laughing so hard!!

Kisses!

Our scared faces!

Hugs! Good night!

TinkerTown

Every year we make a trip to Tinkertown with the kids. This was Aidan's first year on the rides!

The carasol was his first ride and he was a little scared.

Fearless Makayla!

Our happy boy

Our brave little girl!

Cruisin'

Makayla and her BFF Brookelyn

Cruisin' with his big sis! He LOVED the cars!

Hugs!

Brookelyn, Makayla, Shanley & Megan (my BFF!)

Check out Makayla's expression (click on the picture to enlarge it)!! This is priceless! She was bound and determined to go on the Super Slide all by herself. Every time she went down, she had this terrified look on her face. Once we reached the bottom, she would hop up and say she wanted to do it again!! It was hilarious!

Aidan and his sweet little cousin Caybree! It was Caybree's first time on the rides also!

Makayla and Brookelyn

This has also become a tradition...at the end of the day, we gather the kids and take a picture with the Tinkertown clown!

The Mennonite Heritage Village

We spent the entire day with good friends at the Mennonite Heritage Village. We had such a fun time. What a great place!

Caleb pushing Makayla on the swing.

The kids and the mud house.

One of the cute little churches.

"Go to the front of the church and hold hands..."

"...now face each other and tell how much you love one another!"

The newlyweds!

A piece of the Burlin Wall! How cool!

And they lived happily ever after...the end!