My little dancer

Bella had her first dance class this week.  She is now a "Broadway Baby" at Dance By Kris.  Here she is showing us what she had learned at her first class.  She loves the new leotard and ballet slippers.  She says, "I am a Princess Ballerina". 

Gracie's one!

On November 2nd Gracie celebrated her 1st birthday.  Oh how time flies.  She was lucky enough to have a few celebrations.  We spent her birthday at the Children's Museum (which is totally amazing-I would recommend it to anyone with children, we will be going back very soon) and then had a wonderful birthday party and Grandma and Papa O'Neills.  Here are some new photos.

 My big one year old enjoying her birthday gift from Bella.

 Playing at the children's museum.

 Brit and Gracie

The Birthday Girls

 Grandma Terri made Gracie's favorite for her birthday.  Spaghetti. 

Just cuddling with Grandma.

Halloween

We had a busy Halloween weekend.  Friday we spent the night at Bella's school carnival, Saturday we had a costume party for Gracie's birthday party for the Schreier family, Sunday we carved pumpkins and Monday trick-or-treated at Grandma and Papa's. 

Bella and Gracie doing the "BOO WALK" at school 

Gracie's costume party

 Gracie in her pumpkin outfit 2011 (1 yr) & Bella in her pumpkin outfit 2009 (8 months)

Carving our pumpkin

 

Happy Halloween

Fall Fun

We have been having so much fun this fall.  Here are some new photos of the girls!

Pumpkin Patch

 My sweet little witches...

 We waited in line for quite a long time for Bella to get her face painted.  She chose a cute little pumpkin and was so excited.  Right when we got in the car, she wanted it off.

Barney Live

 Getting ready for BARNEY LIVE.  Ricky and I took the girls and they were so excited.  Thankfully neither one was scared and they danced and Bella sang the whole time. 

GO PATRIOTS!!!!! (Yes I know...Gracie looks exactly like Ricky!)

Toddler Tuedays

Toddler Tuesdays at The Mall of America.  Sounds...well a little chaotic to me.  However, this particular Tuesday we decided to venture out to the mall filled with toddlers and other mom's to see Bella's new favorite character STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE!  The ad says, meet and greet Strawberry Shortcake 10-12.  Sounds great, we got there at 10:30 thinking we would have plenty of time to "meet and greet" do a little project and have lunch.  Much to my surprise it was packed.  After realizing we would have to wait in line for 45 minutes I was a little nervous about how my precious little angels would handle this.  I am happy to say the girls did great.  The staff passed out Strawberry bars for a snack and had a Strawberry Shortcake movie playing on the big screen.  After all the waiting we finally got to meet her...it was worth the wait!  We ended the day we a few rides and lunch.  No tears or whining the whole time.  Overall a great trip out!

A visit to the apple orchard

We had so much fun this past weekend going to Aamodt's Apple Orchard.  They had hay rides, tracker rides, a petting zoo, apple tasting and of course apple picking.  The girls had a blast.  Bella loved trying all the apples and then picking which ones she wanted.  

School Starts

Bella started "preschool" this fall.  Actually, it is an ECFE class where her and I go together, but she calls it preschool.  So far she LOVES it.  She loves the songs and playing in the gym.  She also is quite the artist.  We have yet to come home with less than 3 pictures she has painted or colored.  Above is her first day of school, we had ice cream after.  She is getting SO big!