halloween and stuff

Its already Christmas and I just realized I never posted Halloween pictures. Whitney looked so beautiful and was so proud of her costume, that it didn't occur to either of us to put any make up on her. That means she felt pretty stinking beautiful. Thank you Aunt Kristina! As you can see from Spencer's costume, the older kids wouldn't have felt so excited and proud of their costumes if it had been up to me. I blame last year. My costume efforts met with so little success that my confidence hid timidly in the corner this year.

Rob's costume was pretty awesome too. Can you tell who he is?

Caution: Brag Fest Ahead

Whitney is my little budding artist. She got the quarterly award for most outstanding Kindergarten art student. She loves to draw and paint. This is one of her favorite books. She asks to check it out from the library every time we go. She loves the beautiful illustrations.  

Last Sunday morning, she asked to use my oil pastels and copied every page of the book that she could before she ran out of black paper. 

I love how well she captured the emotion of each of these.

You have to click on this one to get a better look at how well she copied the color and strokes and smudging on this one. I LOVE IT!!!

Its possible that I may be swayed heavily by love, but I think she may be the most beautiful, talented girl I've ever encountered.