Early Christmas...

Christmas comes early here in NC apparently, so we celebrated this weekend first with Emma's christmas concert at school...

... and then by attending the Concord tree lighting and fireworks...

... and wrapping it all up by watching Emma (our own little Trefoil) walk in the Concord Chrismas parade with her Daisy Scout troop...

Our own little cookie is pretty sweet!

Unsick

Horray! We have recovered, and Claire has even learned how the smile pretty for the camera. We were practicing all morning with our little blue kid camera... I would back up, say, "smile" and Claire would smile and I would snap the "picture" and show it to her, and then she would do the same... so Mom thought she would truly capture the moment.

Then we were all better, but Mom was sick, so Dad took us to the park to play, launch the rocket and watch him climb super high in a tree to retrieve said rocket. Our Dad rocks! (PS. no Dads were hurt in this particular adventure)

Sick Week

The best part about sick-week at our house was just snuggling up together and reading, lounging, and watching TV... otherwise, we are SO glad to be free of the gunk!

Happy Halloween!

...from the town of Kannapolis...

We went trick-or-treating with a bunch of friends from the neighborhood and church... so fun!

We're off to see the neighbors!

... and they gave us candy! What a great Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Northstones, meet the Northstones, they're the modern stoneage family...

Halloween Party at school...

Just hangin' with some friends

Mummified!

Breakout!

Halloween Party at school...

CHOMP!