Happy Halloween!!!

Mikayla was shocked it's here already!

 

 

 

 

Here is the first and possibly only pumpkin we've carved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We went to a little pumpkin patch too :)

 

 

 

 

 

I can't believe how fast the time is going!!!! 

 

More Halloween fun to come!

 



Choir days

Wow, I do not know where the time is going!!!  I can't believe it is nearing the end of October already!  We have been so hectic lately!

 

This past Sunday Mikayla's choir sang during mass.  It was so cool!  There were three choirs participating.  The church high school kids, the church young kids and the church school kids. 

 

It was really neat!!  They sounded amazing!  There were about 60 kids participating.

 

Here is her group filing in.... they were the youngest of the three groups.

 

 

 

She is the second kiddo in on the left. 

 

 

 

I came across the picture below the other day and thought it was neat.  It's my mom and in this picture she's getting ready to sing at church.

 

 

Mikayla has not stopped singing since yesterday morning..... literally..... she sings ALL DAY LONG.  I've whistled more hymns lately then I have ever in my life because that's what I'm hearing from her all day.

 

It's great though!!!  So here's my munchkin just after she sang in church yesterday.

 

 

 

Mass with the Cardinal

Mikayla is singing in the choir at school, here is her choir group.  We were sitting alongside her so it's kind of hard to see. 

 

Here is the Cardinal.  (wearing green)

We are kind of silly...well maybe just me...but I think Mikayla got "star" struck too.  He had a really great message and is the most down to earth person.  It's so neat that he came today.  Mikayla was very nervous about seeing him...and what if they messed up on their song.... 

He thanked the children for singing such a beautiful song, it was in Latin and he said they pronounced everything perfectly!  Such nice acknowledgement.

See, she looks star struck to me!

Here's Father Sean. 

I am SO glad to have been able to go.  It would have made me sad to miss this special day.  The choir is really good, it makes my heart overflow with happiness and gratitude when I hear a children's choir.   It brings me to tears every single time.

Here is their song, I couldn't really video them so we're looking forward but you can hear them just fine :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tczxh6JSB1M&sns=em

First School Field Trip

I love that the school opened it up for any of the parents to be able to attend.  We couldn't ride the bus but we could go.  It was really fun to be with Mikayla for the extra time that I was. 

 

The field trip was to hear Bach music played on the organ at the big Cathedral downtown.

 

It was interesting.

 

Her are the 3r and 4th graders.

 

 

 

I will confess it was challenging to sit there for an hour and 15 minutes listening to organ music.  Each song was about 10 minutes long, I lost track of where it started and where it ended.   In spite of that though, the organist, was seriously talented.... It is mind blowing how they learn how to play like that!

 

Afterwards we all had some lunch.  Mikayla was playing with the boys.... who are also 3rd graders.... either my child is a giant or they're unusually small.... just saying...

 

 

 

She is one cool kiddo!!!!

 

 

I love that we had the extra time together!  Then we came out and it was a torrential down pour and we got seriously soaked....like just out of the shower with your clothes on kind of soaked.....  and when we got to school there was no power.... whew!  What a way to end the field trip!!!  It's one for the books.

Ice Skating!

Mikayla went ice skating for the first time!  She was invited to a birthday party at the ice rink and she loved it!!!!  She only fell four times which I thought was great considering she didn't hold on to the wall the whole time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She had a blast!  Her thought about it is that she loved it so much she now wants to take lessons. :)  it was fun!

 

Little Flowers

We really have a great group this year!  It is so much fun.  This month our virtue is Friendliness.  Mikayla and I were in charge of the craft.  So in celebrating friends we made friendship necklaces.  I was able to find a wooden puzzle with butterflies on it, and each of the girls got two pieces to decorate, one to keep and one to give to a friend.

 

 

They all really had a great time and loved the sentiment of doing it!

 

 

Thank you Katie for the idea!  It seriously rocked!!

 

 

 

 

A couple of crafty things

This was my mom's thimble collection.  I've been aching to find a way to display it in our house and to modernize it just a bit.  I'm hopelessly hooked on the painter's trays and crafting with them so I decided to try to do something similar with this.

 

So here is the beginning.

 

 

 

I used my dremmel tool with a small saw blade on it to cut out some of the individual slots to make bigger slots, making them a bit closer to mimicking a painters tray.

 

 

I got to use my love of spray paint to change the color

 

 

Now for the fun....er....challenging part.  Filling it up.  I was able to get a lot of the pieces from the jewelry section and the miniature house section at Hobby Lobby.

 

 

 

it's getting closer....

 

 

Ta dah!!!!!   I am really very pleased with how it turned out!!!! I love finding a way to incorporate the old with the new and make it unique.

 

 

 

Another crafty project that Mikayla and I did together was this.  We were getting in the fall/Halloween decorating mood and we had Bobby (the little fella below, on the left).  We decided Bobby was lonely and needed his new friend Brienna...... the only problem was that the store didn't have a Brienna.....

 

 

We went ahead and bought another Bobby to see what we could do to create a Brienna.

 

 

We sewed a skirt, made a necklace, move a bow tie to be a hair bow, added hair, added shoe bows and we were just about there!

 

 

 

 

Here's the hair, I wasn't really up for  "making" it out of yarn or whatever we could find, so we got some prefabbed hair... cut it off of the headband below...and viola!  Hair!

 

 

She's coming right along!

 

 

Ah!!  There we have it, we now have a Bobby and a Brienna.  She was made with extra special love so she's an extra special friend!

 

 

 

 

Happy Fall Ya'll!!!