preparing for "THE" party

Ava wants a sleepover,cupcake party for her 8th birthday... Well I was not sure where to begin but after a month of planning and hours of preparing it is almost ready for the BIG event tomorrow night... The Agenda goes as follows (according to Ava Grace)

Pizza for dinner, cupcake competition, silly string fight, do hair and nails, Just Dance 3 on the Wii with the disco light going, 2 movies and.......lots of giggles....

so tomorrow night say a prayer for me as I will have 5 eight year old girls in my house!!!!!

my shadow....

I thought Ethan was a momma's boy but oh no I was wrong.... Cullen is! This boy knows how to get me... He sneaks into my bed at night when I am asleep and says "You too Mom." In Cullen talk this means I love you too. In the morning he calls me with his sweet voice and when I get him out of bed he gives me the biggest hug and kisses every morning. At night he wants me to lay with him and I can't get up until he is asleep b/c he will give me those sweet eyes and says "mama down", meaning lay down. If for a second he does not know where I am he freaks out and cries. The hardest thing has been preschool. Every morning he cries, "Mama stay home." This breaks my heart, and if it wasn't for Nathan taking him I would give in and let him stay with me.... On the days he does get to stay home I will say "Cullen guess what no school today." and his face lights up and he says "HOME Mama HOME!" This is my sweet, sweet boy and my heart melts every time I see him and hear his voice. Momma loves you Cullen Lee Evans

Daily Devotion

In our daily devotion today it was about asking God for wisdom. Later in the day Ethan came to me and said "Mom, I know a nice way to ask God for wisdom." "God please give me wisdom."

my sweet, sweet Ethan Wallace....

Morehead Planetaruim

Our second field trip was to the Morehead Planetarium and they kids loved it. We have been studying about space and all the planets... Then we got a tour of the UNC campus from none other than daddy! Lunch on Franklin Street and we can't pass up HOT NOW donuts at Krispy Creme... A wonderful field trip!

Happy Halloween.....

October was such a busy month for us... Every weekend we had at least 2 or 3 parties to go to... It was fun though.... Here are my spooky kids ... My ninja, scream man, candy corn witch who won first place in the Halloween contest!

We went to Jodi Lowes annual Halloween party and it was so fun- lots of food, candy, hayrides and playing around -

then off to Lisa Humble's Halloween party with good friends and great neighbors!

keep one eye open

Ava got the funny idea of putting a mustache on Ethan and cullen when they went to sleep.... she was so excited and proud of herself about this little joke she had made up... but what she did not know is when she fell asleep... nathan put one on her. So when she woke up she laughed at Ethan and Cullen and they had no idea why but they were laughing at her too... It was hilarious.....

my little teacher

Ethan is reading so well and he is so proud of himself. The other night he was reading to me and Cullen. Ethan decided he would teach Cullen to read. Ethan would say a word and then Cullen would have to say the word. To my surprise Cullen repeated every word! Ethan said "Cullen you are doing GREAT, I tell you no other 2 year old can read as good as you!" What a sweet brother.