Since I posted a picture of Emilie's purple room, I figured I should go ahead and show the next room we painted. Claire has 3 favorite colors: turquoise, lime, and orange. We found a bedspread and curtains that she liked before we moved. After we set up her room she decided that the paint color should be orange. I was a little apprehensive about a whole room painted in that color. But I think it turned out pretty cute- and Claire absolutely loves it :-)
The girls were discussing the upcoming Christmas holidays at dinner tonight. Conversation got around to Santa's visit and what he should be left to eat when he reaches our house. Not just cookies would suffice but he had to have cookies and milk. Then the discussion moved on to what kind of cookies. The older 3 named off a few and then Chloe piped up- "I just want to leave pizza for Jesus."
We took our last camping trip of the year with the Trapp family to Giant City, IL. It is a really neat park with tons of hiking trails and rock outcroppings. The weather was fantastic- in the low 80's in the afternoons. The kids had a great time hiking and climbing all over the rocks. We also got in some yummy food both cooked over the campfire on Saturday and the next day with a fried chicken dinner at the lodge. Thanks to Nikki for the pictures since I forgot my camera!
Chloe's preschool took a trip to the pumpkin patch. Since Elise is in PM Kindergarten, she got to come along too. The girls had a great time- we went on a wagon ride, played in "Pumpkinland"- the big pumpkin-themed playground, and picked up a couple of pumpkins to carve at home.
Eric took Claire, Emilie, and Elise to the Cardinals game in September. He finally got the pictures to me, so I figured I would put them up on the blog :-) The girls had a great time with their dad:
Claire and Emilie wanted me to share what they've been learning in piano lessons. Emilie started lessons a month ago and Claire is in her 2nd year of private lessons. Please excuse my piano, it is desperately in need of being tuned!
Now that I've finished training for my marathon, the girls are insisting its time to paint their bedrooms. So they went to Grandma Linda's house this Saturday and I painted Emilie's room. Her choice of paint color: purple. Hopefully I will get to Claire's in the next week or two. Her color choice is orange- should be interesting! Then Elise and Chloe want pink. Should be a colorful couple of weeks! So here is Emilie with her new purple bedroom. (I apologize for the picture quality. It was getting dark and my phone doesn't have a flash!)
