Birthday and Christmas List

Laura put together her birthday and Christmas lists. She can't write the list yet, so naturally she just drew her wishes. I added the description in red text to give you a hint at what she means.

Birthday:

Hair Comb (or hair dispenser)
Birthday Cake
Tape Dispenser
No trips to Target store (note the X through the bullseye).
Crutches
A Cast "In case I break my leg". Ok..............

And now for Christmas:

No more stoplight alarm clocks. She says she likes the one in her room, but NO MORE!!! (Again, note the X through the stoplight)
A butterfly light
Ice cream code
Yarn
Scissors
"I can't tell you" ...not sure how Santa's going to figure that one out.
Bag Opener ...again, not sure what she means.
Jack in the box

Winter Wonderland

The Gillespie house received about 9 inches of thick heavy snowman snow. The girls were very excited to have their own personal winter wonderland.

Laura loved catching the big snowflakes on her tongue.


Anna is deciding if she likes this new environment...


As it turns out, she loves it.


Mommy helped the kiddos make a snowman.


Daddy shoveled the 10 tons of snow on our driveway. There are days I regret being too stubborn to buy a snowblower. This was one of them.


And and afternoon trip to the mall results in a visit with the big guy himself!

Halloween Art!

Laura made an art project in preschool for mommy & Anna (She was clear to point out that it was for 'just the girls').

You can see a jack o' lantern, some grass, and 3 bats (purple, orange, and green!).

Happy Halloween!

First Preschool Picture

Here's Laura's first preschool picture:

More fall Fun

With some wonderful fall weather holding on in the great white north, we've been taking advantage of some outdoor activities.

Last weekend we visited the Sever's corn maze. The kids really loved it. They enjoyed navigating the Vikings theme's corn maze and also the hay bale maze too.

The hay maze - note there are more people on TOP of the maze than in it.


Anna loved the tunnel. She could have played there all day.


At the morn maze, you must eat some corn!


Grandpa Bud got out the leaf blower and made a huge leaf pile for the troublemakers to jump into.

1...2...3... JUMP!


It looks more like a swimming pool than a leaf pile.


Wee!


Anna is having so much fun she assumes that means she is doing something she should not be doing! Much to her surprise, we were encouraging her to make a mess,


Laura buried in the leaves.


Anna also explored the pumpkins. Fall is great!

Happy Fall!

The best thing about fall is the fine weather. There is nothing better than a warm, dry, fall day. On one of the 3 perfect fall days we get here in Minnesota, we took the kids to the park.

Anna showing off her face first sliding skills.


Laura can't let Anna get all the attention! That just won't do!


Anna give a little have as she makes her way down the slide.


Anna is cheering Laura down the slide.


Laura loves to write & doodle. Here she is earning brownie points by writing that she loves her family. I'm sure whatever she was trying to get us to do, she got. (Note, she made a point to say that Laura loves Laura.)


Chalk art. Life is sunshine & rainbows in Laura-land.


In order to get to the slide above, the kids must navigate some tricky stairs. Anna is showing her mastery of the playground equipment.


One last important note: Emily completed her first 10 mile road race. She trained hard and did great!

Race Day!

After Emily's triathlon, Laura said SHE wanted to run in a race. Lucky for us, there was a kids 1K fun run in Savage. So Laura patiently waited for the race and was very excited to participate.

She picked out her own race outfit. She loves all the colors. She also was excited to get a race number.


Anna was wondering why she wasn't running. Next year Anna, there were some kids about her age doing it, so she should be good to go next year.


Laura at the start line. She did really well. 1K is a little more than a half mile, and she only stopped to walk a couple of times.


Laura crossing the finish line. She was a little winded, but very excited to run the race.


Mommy, can I run it again?