Moore Family Happenings

Emma turned 7 yesterday. The B-I-G 7! For days she has been reminding me that her birthday was coming up, and not to forget to wrap her presents, and not to forget to make her a cake, and not to forget that she wanted breakfast burritos for breakfast (smart girl) . . .

Anyway, I’ve always felt bad that Emma’s birthday was so close to Christmas so we decided to throw this somewhat spur of the moment surprise party for her. Can you believe that 13  six and seven year olds were able to keep it a secret for a whole week?! Props to them.

I thought maybe we’d have 5 kids show up-I mean schools out, holiday travel, snowy night, etc. Nope! There were 11 girls there. Add our 3 to the mix and you can imagine all the shrieking and screaming that ensued for 2 hours. Jared and I could only look at each other in sheer disbelieve.

Fridays are “Mystery Reader” days for first graders. I signed up for December 18th thinking it’d be easy for me to remember (Emma’s class-Emma’s birthday).

Well here’s the catch, you have to come in full costume-including something that covers your face.  The kids take turns asking questions that you can shake your head ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to and eventually they figure out who it is. Yeah, pretty sure there aren’t many costumes that can accommodate my gut. Except for . . . .

I even wore my Nicole Richie shades for the occasion. (which I sadly have no pictures of me wearing)

After all that is some seriously white snow up there!!

And since we now have a Santa suit-no need to mess with the crowds or waste $103940398 taking pictures at the mall. Jump on up gals,

Seriously, I’m a mess. 

Emma has been waiting for almost 2 years now to lose a tooth. When we were in KC for Thanksgiving she discovered not one, but 2 of them were lose.

Well after a week of wiggling it she finally lost her first one! She is probably the last one in her class to have that cute toothless grin. Course after losing the first one it was old news and I don’t think she’s touched the other one since.

Which is fine. This ATM never has cash on hand anyway.

The scariest thing about this post is that it’s coming 1 day after the actual event and not a month or two later. Something is clearly wrong with me.

Let’s start with some classic Moore sayings this Halloween:

(me) “Lily what do you say when you go to someone’s house on Halloween?”

(L)  “Give me candy!”

Lily was convinced this is what you would say. We had to work on “trick or treat”. When you think about it, though, she hit the nail on the head.

(Abby to Emma) “You’re costume should be a boss because you’re always telling me what to do.”

If anyone can figure out what a “boss” would look like it would indeed be a great costume for Emma.

I hope this isn’t going to shatter your world, but I don’t have many pictures of the girls and their costumes. They got to wear them a few times, but each time I said I’d get a good picture later. Well later came (the night of trick or treating) and they were all bundled up and ready to go before I could get any!

Abby was a cowgirl:

Lily was a ladybug:

and Emma was a rockstar:

With our little friend Rapunzel!

Some randomness:

This year when carving pumpkins Jared wasn’t messing around. He swapped a knife for some tool I probably don’t even know how to pronounce.

Lily doing the preliminary sketches of her’s.

Abby doing the grunt work:

I don’t know why a picture of Emma didn’t make the cut. She was probably too worried about her appearance to scoop some seeds

And finally a cleaner, cuter Lily–

My phone died. I don’t know what’s wrong, it worked for two days after my FL trip, but that’s about it. BUT I did manage to get the pictures off of it. Smart thinking, eh?

So this is how we roll in my house. Caught Emma having a snack, with no pants or underwear on. Nice.

and a classic shot of Lily-