Sara was Minnie Mouse last year, too, but she doesn't know that and it saved me a lot of stress! It did fit her a lot better this year, too.
This is Rachel as Belle. She is my third daughter to wear this well used costume. Thank you Grandma Lauritzen!!
And yet another repeat from last year! Melissa loved being Elina (it's a Barbie thing) so much last year that she had to do it again. Fine with me!
So here's the only costume I actually had to make this year. This is Ashley as Brittney from the Chipmunk Great Adventure. It's a sort of genie costume. 
Here's the group. Sara was so done having pictures taken. She just wanted to go Trick or Treating, and is pro, too! She went straight to the door, yelled Trick or Treat, got a candy, said thank you, got another candy, said bye-bye, got more candy. Life must be easy when you're that cute! I like how Sophie had to make an appearance in this picture, too. Maybe we should have dressed her up.
The finished products--Ashley's is the far left, a scared pumpkin, then Rachel's, a happy Jack o' Lantern, last is Melissa's fancy cat.
Here's our now 2 year-old Sara blowing out the candles on her Minnie Mouse cake.
She loves her new little Dora couch--right now the only furniture we have in our basement!
She likes balloons, too. What kid doesn't. Happy Birthday, my Sara!!
Ashley recently got glasses and picked out the cute frames herself. The picture is a little blurry because I had to take a candid photo. She's still pretty self-conscious about them. But doesn't she look great?? Her eyesight isn't very bad yet, but bad enough that she was struggling to see the chalk board at school and her piano books! Now maybe she can sit down like a normal person when she plays. It does make her look a little too old.
