Happy "Gotcha Day" Miss Molly!

My how Molly has changed! Here are the girls at the zoo today (:

Here's a real picture of Miss Molly eating her Chinese food with her feet up on the counter tonite.

Hard to believe it was four years ago today that we "got" Molly from China!

Happy Halloween!

The girls had snow days Wednesday, Thursday and Friday but it was almost 60 degrees and sunny today, so it was a pretty good night for trick or treating (a bit slushy and mushy, but better than it would have been a few days ago!).

Molly didn't wear her magician's hat so Jerry said everyone thought she was a vampire (and a boy, probably). She got a bit tired half-way through so I went and got her and we came home and she ate pixie sticks and suckers while I ate chocolate from her bucket!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Presto! Chango! Molly is now a Magician for Halloween

Getting ready for Halloween

As of today Katie will be a woopie cushion and Molly a pirate. Megan's Mad Hatter costume is on it's way; will see if she likes it or if we'll have to scramble to find something else. Sure hope it will be in the 70s like last Halloween, but with this global warming going on (ha!), I am doubting that!

Megan and her teammates won Eagles State

Here's Megan and her teammates after they won the Eagles State Level 5 gymnastics meet. Megan stuck her cartwheel on beam and won all-around in her age group. She was thrilled after she stuck that silly cartwheel and jumped into the arms of her wonderful coach Kristy. We would have all needed therapy if she had fallen again! USAG competition starts in the fall (this was sort of a practice league for them). Katie got 2nd in all-around for her age group in Level 3. She was a happy camper, too (though she is always a happy camper even when she messes up!).

Molly with her sisters at her swimming class

Molly is becoming quite the little swimmer. Here she is at her Safe Spl*ash swim class where the water is 90 degrees, but the classes are very expensive. She had to wear a bathing cap, goggles and fins in the class, too. Surprisingly, she would put it all on with no troubles. She's back at classes at the rec center where the water is a little cooler, but no bathing cap and it's way cheaper! Megan and Katie are finishing up their gymnastics meets (state meet this weekend, but they'll still go to practices, 7 hours for Katie and 10.5 for Megan a week) and doing the swim team this summer. Wish I was that active; I just drive them to their practices!

Here's a rare picture of Miss Molly with her hair down!

Fun at Disneyland

We were at Disneyland 12/18-23. My mom came on the 20th from Chicago, as did my sister, Terry, and her family from Arizona: hubby Marc and kiddos, Lucas and Amanda, and their au pair, Asako. They even flew in their first au pair, Kana, from Japan. A great time was had by all! We celebrated Lucas and Amanda's bday (12/15) and Katie's bday (12/20) with Mickey and Minnie and Pat E. Cake on the 22nd.

On Christmas Eve we all drove to Prescott, Arizona to spend Christmas at Terry and Marc's. We had a lovely Christmas Eve dinner at Denny's in Blythe, CA :) on the way to their house!