Christmas

Meet Happy. He is our house elf.

He made all the magic happen this year.

Stella & her new "Emo" panties
A coloring thing that makes music
The baby that never stops giggling LIP GLOSS in a PURSE = Every 4 year old girls DREAM

Her letter to Santa had a picture of a teddy bear and lip gloss
The excitement before heading downstairs

This photo says it all . . ."Lame Mom, I got a slinky & they got their own video games"

At the end of the day the girls were beyond tired, but they were happy.

We had a good day with family and are grateful for every second of it!

CHANGE

Stella got GLASSES!

And she acutally is pretty good about wearing them. When she takes them off I say "Stella, I can't see you, put your glasses on" And then she giggles and we put them back on.

We sold our HOME and let me just tell you that PACKING blows!!

It was a bitter-sweet GOODBYE, but we are excited for a NEW adventure!

We will miss our MOUNTAIN home, the beautiful trails, the good friends & the moose tracks. But we decided that we wanted to teach our children that we do not need to rely on CARS! Less driving . . . more biking & walking! For now, we are staying with my parents, until our next home is bought & fixed up!


The girls are excited about the snow! Stella met her first snowman and she sqealed with DELIGHT!

Trunk R Treat
Night before Halloween
Aurora, Witch & Cat

Stella wasn't into the cat ears . . . big surprise . . . her whiskers are cute though!

CycloCross Race on Halloween Day
Rosie "Road Kill" Gillespie

I moved up a category & am loving it!!!!! So FUN!!!

Janie made a cute picnic for the race
PB&J spider crackers

Bone, Finger & Snake bread sticks

Spooky Mouth Apple Wedges

Ghost PB&J's with Finger String Cheese

Eva The Pirate Gillespie

Swamp Thing hiding in the bushes waiting to jump out and scare the racers!
Scared the crap out of me a couple of times :)

Eva & Richard

Bart The Baby Gillespie
My mom got those pajamas for Christmas when she was in 8th grade!

Stella watching Daddy race

3rd Annual Neighborhood Hayride

The Wingers & Eva on the Hayride
Eva decided to grow up overnight . . . "Mom, I don't need to sit by you on the hayride anymore, I'm sitting by my friends"

"Mom, just stay at the bottom of the driveway,
I can go by myself, don't worry I will say Thank You"

Aurora, Kitty Cat, Witch, Monkey

I'm a Mean old witch with my CAT.
Please notice the full piece velor suit that Bart is wearing. My mom got that in the early 90's at Contempo and used to wear it with a belt!

Stella - The Monkey
Stella finally decided that she could tolerate this costume. I told her it was her Monkey lovey coat, so that she would be excited to wear it

Stella is done . . . Time for BED
Notice the candy she thinks she is taking to bed with her

HAPPY HALLOWEEN -
Now it is time to RELAX till the next thing!

More October

Our SPOOKY Tree

The perfect cup of Hot Chocolate

"Mom, that's gross, I don't want to clean out my pumpkin"

"But don't worry, I'll color a great face"

"And take a cute picture with my little pumpkin"

And then. . . Stella . . . she is not really into Halloween this year, but she is into other things . .
Loving Eva's retro white tap shoes

Microwaved S'Mores

She thinks she is ready to potty train, so that means hanging in the buff

Sweet Potato Minestrone - Bart's new Fav

BFF BFBD Party. This is the only picture we got :)

October

One of my Favorite Months!!
The Fun Begins . . .
Costumes @ Gardner Village

Richard, Eva, Hallie & Owen

Princess Aurora

No costume for Stella . . . to put it mildly, she wasn't interested in hers.
But she sure loves pumpkins

Check it out

Bart's Mom has a little business re-doing furniture. Check out her blog.
http://www.wedore-dos.blogspot.com/
They are having a huge "yard sale" starting tomorrow going through the weekend.
80% of our house is furnished with her furniture.
Our planet LOVES when we recycle!

CycloCross

After 8 years of spending my Fall Saturdays supporting Bart at the Utah CycloCross series, I decided I might as well get some exercise too! The race was AWESOME! I loved every second of it. It is totally family friendly, there are tons of kids running around. My girls loved watching me race. So for anybody looking for a FOCUS to stay in shape you should come out and try it! The best part about it is that the Women's race is only 40 minutes !

See I'm even smiling :)

Bart

Here is Stella showing me what she just did, waiting for me to say "NO, NO"!

Eva loves the "funny faces" right now!

The picnic in the back of the mini