Saturday, October 8, 2011

Fall Festival at Horizon Elementary School

Tinker Bell and Snow White

Ella and Caroline Murphy- Neighbors

The school puts on a fall festival where the kids can dress up and come and play games.  They each got a punch card and went to each station to play a game and win a prize or candy.  They also had a storytelling room that was wonderful.  It was an elderly gentleman and they were scary but not too scary stories and I even found that I was enthralled in the stories... so much fun for the kids.

Lauren's buddy Ben Edmondson from soccer.


Oooohhhhhh  Scary!




Knock the hat off the scarecrow!


Lauren got to decorate a cookie at the end of the party!

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Call me a geek but I LOVE THIS SONG!



I can't get this song out of my head, it is so catchy....don't know why but I just like to boogy to it!

A pajama party at school!


Lauren's class won a pajama party at school for great behavior.  They have a jar that they fill up with pom-poms when they are extra good.  Mrs. K is super nice and I really enjoy coming up and helping in the class.  I am slowly learning all fo the kids names and getting to know them a little better.  They make me laugh every time I am up there.  There is such a HUGE range of what kids know and don't know...but I love helping them try to figure it out and when the just randomly guess...you never know what they are going to say.

Girls Day Out!



We had a girls day out in Des Moines.  Joyce, Pat, Myrna, Mal, Lea and Caroline, Stacey, Cheryl and her 2 friends all met up for lunch at Champs and then we shopped.  I spent the morning at Lauren's soccer game and Caroline didn't want to shop so she came to the game with us... they had a great time.  Elise and Caroline are two peas in a pod that is for sure (they are second cousins).  They were cheerleading for the "tigers".  It was a gorgeous fall morning, crisp but warmed up quickly.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

A fun weekend with family! September 23rd-25th, 2011



Grandpa brough rocket balloons and they fly really high in the air and make a funny noise and the girls would chase them and try to catch them when they fall.  This entertained us for hours!


Lauren was so pooped by Saturday nigth she was asking to go to bed at 6:00, without dinner.  I made her a quick sandwich so she could crash, and she did about 7:00 that night.

We had an early birthday celebration for Elise's birthday... almost 7!


Elise has Justin Beiber FEVER... she thinks he's the bomb!



My little Diva!  She is wearing Grandma Hubbard's original sunglasses from the 1970's!

Charlie- 15 months old


Watching Lauren's soccer game.






The girls were thrilled to see Grandma and Grandpa Divine when they got off of the bus.

Playing Sequence with Papa.  Elise was telling Grandpa to "hurry up" and Lauren told her to "be nice he's old"... ha that was funny!


Teammate Lizzie









We went up to the school playground for a bit so the girls could show off their new monkey bar skills.




Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Monkey Bars!


Lauren was so proud because she had finally mastered the monkey bars at school.  She skips them so she only really does 2 of the bars.  She had to show off to Grandma and Granpa Hubbard.

September 24th, 2011



Elise has mastered the round monkey bars at school... she has worked really hard to do this and is so strong... I can't hang for very long that is for sure!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Johnston's Homecoming!

The girls had a really fun week at school.  It is Johnston's Homecoming this week.  The week started off with Hat Day (Lauren wore in IU hat and Elise wore her pink sunhat), then the next day was crazy socks day followed by Neon/Tie-Dye Day and ending with Spirit day.... the girls wore there purple to cheer for the team.  Elise and I went over to the homecoming parade and it was pure entertainment.  She is such a social butterfly.  She knew so many people and it made me laugh that every time we turned around.. she knew someone else.  She got a bunch of candy and "junk" that she brought home to share with Lauren who wasn't feeling so great on Friday.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

A Hubbard Update... just the basics

Well, I haven't written much lately so I thought I should give an update on the crew these last few weeks.  2 weeks ago the girls got sick (Labor Day Weekend) which was a huge bummer, it was a picture perfect weekend and we were stuck inside. The girls both had fevers and stomache aches... at least Eric and I survived it without getting it.

Lauren has been having tummy aches a lot and I just couldn't put my finger on what was wrong.  This went on for about 3 weeks.  So I took her in to see Dr. Stoll and turns out... she is constipated.  Her belly film was full of poop... so we are back on track and she is taking daily medicine for a bit and we have had no more tummy aches.  Lauren is LOVING school.  She has some of the greatest songs she is learning in Mrs. K's class... I will get them on tape soon and post them.  She had a speech evaluation because her adorable lisp and troubled "r"s were of concern.  The speech therapist said it is normal for her age and no need to worry.. so that is great.  I love how she talks and I don't want it to change.... she is so sweet.
Lauren started soccer and is loving that.  She is very competative and wants to score goals all of the time.  She asked me the other day why one of the boys is "so bad" on our team..  We are working on that with her... brutal honesty. :)

She had a little incident today.  She was supposed to go to KTC but forgot and got on the bus.  When she realized I wasn't home she went to the neighbors across the street and thank goodness they were home.   The bus driver Dave got wind from the school that she is supposed to be at the school so he came back for her and she got back on the bus and he took her back to the school.  Brenda, the KTC director was there waiting for her (and of course Elise was too, because she was worried about her sister).  I told Lauren today how proud I was of her that she did the right thing by going to the neighbors (someone we know) and getting help.  I would bet she was a little scared today.  But she did great and is fine.

Miss Elise is rockin' at school.  Her teacher Mrs. Moore told me that she is doing really well in class especially with her reading.  She is all ready reading above the expected level for this age so that was great to hear.  Elise LOVES to read and especially when she reads to someone else.  Elise is back on the mend as well.  She was so sick over Labor Day that she had to go on steroids to help her cough.  But she is back on track.  She has mastered the monkey bars at school and she is SO proud of that.  She has worked hard.  She is really enjoying school and making a lot of new friends.  Here good buddy in class is Paige and they can't get enough of each other.

Elise and I went to the Homecoming Parade tonight.  Lauren wasn't feeling well so she stayed home.  I was laughing so hard because she knew TONS of people.  She is miss social butterfly and acts so grown up all ready.  She said it was the "best parade she has ever been too".  I would have to disagree but it's funny what she thinks great is... socializing!

We are excited because Dad and Lucy are coming down tomorrow for the weekend and Mollie and Charlie are headed up from KC for the weekend as well.  It will be good to see everyone.  We have 28 days until we leave for Disney World... not that I am counting and I can't stand not telling the girls right now but it will be priceless when we tell them the day we leave.... yeah!!  Well that's it for now... I am tired.