Another Catch-up

I have a bunch of pictures that I want to get posted, but that are from a while ago. Maybe I’ll do them all in separate posts.

Well, first up: Last year Emma’s class created a city. Each student chose a business to research and do a report on. It was so cute!

Emma chose to do her report on the Capitol Building. If you look closely you can see Harry Potter standing on the roof. I’m not really sure what he’s doing there. :)

All the parents were invited to visit their city and listen to the kids’ reports. I know that Target was added because Emma told her teacher that they had to have it because it was her Mom’s favorite store! Ha, she makes me laugh. :)

Also each student created a house for the residential section. I’m seeing several pools in this picture. There are certainly not that many pools  in Boise. It must be wishful thinking. :)

Too Cool.

 

“Oh yeah. It’s cool to drool.”

I also have a 10 year old!

 

Well, and I now also have an 8 year old and 5 year old, but I’ll have to get to them a little later.

So at the end of October, Emma turned 10! I hadn’t known this before, but turning double digits is apparently a big thing. So Emma had her first friends party! I know, most of you are probably having friends over for birthday parties for each of your kids, every year. But this was our first time for any of the kids!

With her birthday so close to Halloween, Emma thought it would be fun for everyone to dress up.

And they each got to paint a pumpkin.

And she also wanted to do a piñata. As fans of AFV, I was not sure if it was a good idea. :) But we made it work, and nobody got whacked!

You can see we hung the piñata on the end of our fruit picker. Then Adam stood on the deck (which has a railing), and held the pole out. It worked pretty well.

And of course she had so much fun opening presents.

Sydney enjoyed the party too.

Emma requested a bat cake to go along with her Halloween themed party.

She is growing up so quickly and beautifully. Emma is such a great big sister. She loves to read, and she is so smart. I still can’t believe that she is 10!