Thanksgiving 2012

We had a great Thanksgiving in Nashville! Check it out...

Great Grandma Hepper and her 5 great grandchildren.

Aunt Erin and her bestie, Margaret.

Silly Caroline and Great Grandma Hepper

One of my favorite pics from the holiday: Daddy and J.

Caroline and Grandma, so proud of their gingerbread house.

Grandpa and sweet Margaret

Look how cute I am!

No, look how cute I am!!

Daddy, aka Uncle Paul, and Will

J's pouty face

Margaret stealing Daddy's ham.

SUCH a happy girl!

Caroline and Great Grandma looking at the zebras.

The twins spent A LOT of time tackling the stairs.

C enjoying one of Grandma Hepper's famous peanut butter balls.

Story time with Mommy and her girls.

The twins with their twins

J giving cousin Claire a "friendly" pat on the head.

A tired Mommy and a naked J at the Thanksgiving table.

Margaret and her other bestie, Great Grandma Hepper

J couldn't be bothered to wake for lunch at Bread and CO.

Preschool Thanksgiving Feast

Today was Caroline's last day of school before the Thanksgiving holiday. The parents were treated to a Thanksgiving program of adorable 3 and 4 year olds, sporting Thanksgiving themed hats (or crowns, as Caroline called them) and dyed noodle necklaces, singing cute turkey themed songs. The whole program lasted a little over 10 minutes (the perfect amount of time, in my opinion!), and then everyone headed off to the Fellowship Hall to partake in the annual Thanksgiving Feast. Caroline and her buddies chowed down on muffins, cheese, fruit salad, and cookies and then bid adieu to their sweet teachers until next week!

Looking nervous as we head off to school!

Excited as she marches into the Sanctuary.

Singing complete, let's chow down!

Chowing down with buds Mary Michael and Holt.

With buddies Julia Hunter, Claire, Holt, and Austin

Wordless Wednesday!

Caroline reading "Dear Zoo" to her sisters.

Julia using the Dot-a-Dot paints like big sister.

Margaret getting in a snuggle with her favorite Claire

The girls busy with Play-Doh

Julia

Margaret

Caroline

Caroline scoring a goal on her last day of soccer.

Julia's middle name is "Danger"

Having a heart attack yet, Mom?

It's a good thing she doesn't get much air on her jumps!

My sweet girls

Julia behind the wheel...yikes!

Guess who can climb in and out of her crib now??!!!

I just wanted to party with Margaret!!

Sweet Caroline at the playground.

Hello, bedhead! But check out these strawberry-banana pancakes Daddy made me!

Miss Margaret on the slide.

Halloween, Round II

Another fantastic Halloween is in the books for the Hepper crew! Thankfully, Hurricane Sandy only brought a lot of rainfall to Richmond, and the weather cleared up just in time for a chilly but sunny Halloween day. We did have two Halloween parties get cancelled in the midst of the storm on Sunday and Monday, but I'm okay with that because I am exhausted today and I can't imagine how much more tired I would be had those festivities gone on as planned!

We started off the day on an exciting note because the Great Pumpkin (aka Mommy) made it's first ever trip to the Hepper household. The girls woke up to find a note and a pumpkin full of treats! Then we all headed off to school to participate in FPP's Halloween parade. After school, we had rest time and watched the movie the Great Pumpkin brought (smart cookie, that Great Pumpkin), carved our pumpkins, and then got dressed for the main event. At 6pm sharp, we headed out the door and across the street to our annual Halloween block party, and then scored some major loot trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. A good time was had by all!

My only disappointment this year was that I didn't get any group pictures of the girls in their costumes. It was too cold for the twins to wear their costumes without coats, and Caroline was too excited to sit still for one second, let alone long enough for a picture to be taken. Oh well...I'm sure no one would have been looking at the camera anyways!

The Great Pumpkin's note.

Caroline so excited to see everyone's name.

Of course, Margaret got a book.

The Great Pumpkin even remembered the dogs.

Hip hip hooray for the latest Tinkerbell movie!!

Off to the Halloween parade...so excited!

Daddy came to watch!

Tinkerbell

I took a peek into the twins' classroom after the parade. I found the girls doing exactly what they would have been doing at home: Margaret was snuggled up with one of her teachers, reading a book, and Julia had just stolen a toy from another child and was laying on top of it to prevent anyone else from taking it. Sad, but true!

Neighborhood kids ready to trick-or-treat.

While the big kids were trick-or-treating, Julia and Margaret passed the time by eating...and hunting for candy...

Julia

Margaret

Bumble bee on the prowl.

Back at home, the girls surveying the loot.

I think the candy was going to their heads...

Caroline looking a bit tipsy...on candy of course!