Pumpkinville

On Saturday, Deanna invited us to go with her and the kids to pumpkinville in Leesburg VA!  It was so much fun.  We had a few mishaps along the way (Leah fell flat out in the mud, she got VERY upset because the bounce houses didn't have basketballs, and Isabella was very sad about the fact that we couldn't spend the entire day in the old nasty bus), but overall we had a really fun time!!  I asked the girls afterwards what their favorite part of the day was and they both said "Kai" and Bella added "Dumi" (Demi).  It cracks me up that when we are together, they don't really play together much, but they talk about Kai and Demi for DAYS after we see them!!

We started at the petting zoo part...Leah loved playing with the roosters

Leah just LOVES all animals!  She had such a good time touching them all!

This was such a weird creature...it had super furry feat.  Leah thought it was really funny!

She kept saying "touch"..she really wanted to touch the babies!  I am glad they were sectioned off or we may have had an "Of Mice and Men" moment!

This was one of the highlights of the petting farm...I have no idea why my kids love fans so much, but they point them out ANYTIME we see them...no matter what type or size fan it is.  This was especially exciting because it was so big!

Notice most of the pics at the animal park were of Leah..Bella doesn't really care too much about them.  She is really excited at first but then usually finds other things to occupy her attention.

Random sandpit in the animal park

Leah tries to ride every animal :)

She had no idea that this animal was trying to bite her as she tried to ride him :)

This rooster had no fear of Leah and vise versa...at the end, she actually jumped up and tried to attack Leah...scary, but also a little funny...

Kai in one of the bounce houses...he is just so cute!

The bus!  This was by far the favorite thing of the day for Isabella...she LOVES buses and LOVES to drive things, so she was in heaven here!

Notice Leah's pants...I only had these very tight pink pants in the diaper bag, so when she fell in the mud, she was stuck with them.  So stylish!!

We ended the day with the bounce slides.  The girls just love these (despite the lack of basketballs).

Family Fun Day!

Yesterday was another fun Sunday!  We started off the day at church.  The girls were very excited to dress up in their pretty little dresses!  When we got home, we had a little snack time before we took a nap....

Leah doesn't look very happy...but she was actually laughing!!

Sitting on the bench after church...such a beautiful day!!

After Ledo's, we went came home and went on a family walk, hung out with some neighbors and their dog for a little while, and then Cesar's cousins Paulina and Andres came over!  We had a great time playing with Andres' dog and getting to catch up with the two of them! 

Isabella rocking Paulina's sunglasses!

Oh the fun things you get to do when guests are over...

The boys giving their cousin a hard time!

Love this one!!!!

Jodi
Isn't she So cute?! 
Almost makes me want get a puppy
(well..until she peed on the floor...then I remembered why we don't have one!).

Leah absolutely LOVED the puppy!  Jodi was so good about it too...Leah would tackle her and jump on her and she just kept playing!!

As usual, Isabella would rather play with the computer than anything (even a cute little puppy!).

These pictures are from Friday and Saturday.  Just a few that I liked.  As usual, we were camera happy at family dinner...

First thing Saturday  morning (this was about 7:15am..after we had already been outside for a little walk), Isabella picked up my bible and started reading :)

Saturday, we had some pictures done and then went out to dinner.  We didn't home until almost bed-time, but we still had time to sneak an an episode of Dora!  I captured the breakdown that we have EVERY day after Dora-time.  Generally, the girls get to watch it before dinner.  They watch for 20 min., we have "book" time and then eat dinner.  They really need that book time because we used to try to go straight from Dora to dinner but dinner wasn't much fun as they couldn't get their minds off of Dora.  Anyway...here is what happens every day when we turn off the TV...

Happily captivated by Dora...

Excited to see the end when Dora dances and sings the "we did it" song.

TV gets turned off and they both sink down in the couch...

They lay down and start whining a little...

They flip over like fish and start really fussing...

And finally we throw ourselves on the ground until Mommy says "OK, it's book time...come pick out a book..."

This same thing happens EVERY night.  I love it though because it is SO routine (and we all know how much I love routine).  Bella is always the first to snap out of it and run over and pick out a book.  We sit on the couch together and call Leah's name and tell her the name of the book we are reading.  She then runs over and climbs up onto the couch with us and within seconds, they have forgotten all about Dora and are so excited to be reading books!  Oh how I love these two sweet girls!!!