Trunk-or-treat

Saturday night our church had their annual Trunk-or-Treat and we had so much fun!!! 

We all gathered for a fun BBQ at the beginning and Myra ran around with her cute friend...he was dressed as a pumpkin and I had to laugh because he totally fit into our family Cinderella theme!

Myra desperately wanted to be Cinderella for Halloween and when I asked her what she wanted me to be she declared, "CINDERELLA".  So i give you, Cinderella (pre sister abuse), Cinderella, prince charming, and gus-gus!.

Saturday morning I realized... "Wait a minute, I think we are supposed to decorate our cars for this...?"  Unfortunately Jordan was busy studying at school all day and I still had to finish up some of our costumes so I quickly whipped up a carriage for our car.  I wanted to add a bunch more to it but it ended up working great and Myra LOVED it.. (she cried this morning when I threw it away).

That laugh!!!! hahahaha I love that girl.
She is usually SO painfully shy and can't even look and smile at a person she doesn't know super well let alone TALK to them but just like last year for trick-or-treating she smiled, said "trick-or-treat" and "Thank you so so much!!!!" to everyone!  I was really proud of her.  The candy helps I think :).  She is very excited to go door to door tonight... As am I!
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Miss Cinderella...

This past week has been a blast.  Jordan's parents have been in town so we have been going to the parks and playing.  Our favorite "Food and Wine Festival" is going on at Epcot right now so we went over for a few hours one day and even got to go with a cute miniature Cinderella!  

Most days are a battle to get her to put clothes on... While most children her age have specific things they want to wear and can pick out what to wear, this little girl just wants to be naked.  All day, everyday.... BUT I can get her to put on her Cinderella dress without a fight usually, so the really tough days I get to have Cinderella with me.  The best thing about it?  She behaves VERY well when she wears it because she knows Cinderella is pretty because she is KIND and has COURAGE!!!!  

Growing up my mom would always tell me people were pretty because they were nice....I am trying so hard to teach her that.  A good personality can do wonders for someone so I am very grateful that Cinderella is her favorite princess and the one she looks up to...because some of those princesses are a bit.....dare I say, bratty?  

It's interesting raising a little one... while trying to teach and guide them a certain direction you start to really realize how much work you need to do yourself.  We expect and teach our kids to be a certain way but we ourselves aren't behaving the way we desperately want them to.... This is something I am trying very hard lately to change.  To practice what I preach. 

I love you my sweet little Cinderella...