Sewing Lessons

Anna's Brownie troop has been working on their sewing badge, and part of their project was to sew a teddy bear, which Anna whipped out in one night. They also got to use the sewing machine to make a tote bag, and she has been taking hers everywhere!

Cool Weather!

We have actually had some decent fall weather this year! It is so rare to need a jacket in October in Florida, so Anna took advantage of the cool temps to deck herself out in all of her gear!

Halloween

Anna decided to dress up as Sadako for Halloween this year. She and Ansley (who was Little Bo Peep with Jasper as her "sheep") walked around our neighborhood. It was fun seeing friends and neighbors and it was actually cold!

Family Photos

A friend kindly offered to take our pictures for our Christmas card this year, and here are some of the pictures she took.

Thank you, Tim!

Huge thanks to Tim, who came over and cured my computer so that I can now post my pictures! I will now post on a more regular basis and I look forward to everyone else's blogs!

Last days at Disney

Last year we bought annual passes for Disney because we knew we wanted to be out of the house alot on the weekends because of the addition. We have enjoyed the parks tremendously over the year, and are sad now that our year is drawing to a close. Here are some pictures from the year.

At Epcot, the Japanese women were kind enough to dress Anna up in a kimono as part of her research on Sadako.

Here we are in front of the first big roller coaster that we were able to ride as a family because Anna was tall enought to ride!

Anna the reader!

The first time Anna went to visit Mike and Heather in Georgia (January 2006), they bought her the first Addy book (American Girl series). We have had since then, and I have tried to get her to read it many times, but she never was quite ready. This summer, though, she finally expressed interest, and we have been reading the series together ever since. Here is a picture of her reading the last book of the series! We are so excited about her interest in reading! (It didn't come as easily as Emma's.) She was also able to take the AR quizzes for the books. Now we are reading the Kit series (thanks, Emma, for letting us borrow it).