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Saturday in October

We had planned on going apple picking at Stribling but ended up at Burke Nursery instead. We hav good memories of the place where we had gone before with the Skyline Bright Horizons crew. Everyone gets a pumpkin when you leave. Before we went, we had lunch with Julie at Momo and Poke (go with the Kalhua pig) who took the two pictures in front of the plate glass window.
Matchy, matchy as they say. The girls wore grey Supergirl dresses and boots and at Costco, it turns out Erin can wear XL girls coats too so they all got the same coat. If you look carefully in our family picture Albert is also wearing Super-person attire, a black on black Superman shirt.
We have wanted to have a play date with Agnes, Elia’s friend from Bright Horizons. Yesterday we were able to have dinner with her family at Choolah’s. Everyone loved the handwashing machine. Curie has been friends with Natalie and Chloe since Bright Horizons, we wanted to make sure Elia had the same opportunity to stay friends with her friends. Agnes and Elia loved being together, and Agnes’s brother Linus loved Curie.
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Curie’s Eighth Birthday Party!

Curie’s eighth birthday party at Scramble. The theme was Under the Sea, but not the in the Little Mermaid way (that was later for Natalie’s party). We wore Mera from Aquaman and decorated the party accordingly – without Aquaman.
Superman, Wonder Woman, the Incredibles, and Mera it is amazing we have not done Batman/Batgirl. Also three of these were for Curie’s birthday parties.
Curie’s birthday party was in the morning, Natalie’s was in the afternoon, tomorrow morning is Chloe’s.
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Archery with the Watts Family

Jenna, Vivian, and Natalie took us up on our offer of going to shoot archery. We went to Bull Run instead of Ft. Belvoir because Ft. Belvoir doesn’t allow civilians to shoot anymore. The Watts family were naturals! We hope to go again soon.
The kids were pretty independent in their shooting this time and all three girls hit balloons.
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Hoagland Halloween 2018

Each year we attend the Bella’s birthday party which is a crazy Halloween party with an elaborate haunted house. We have in the past had elaborate costumes to attend. This year, with everyone being sick we did not do a meta costume instead were a part of the theme much like we did in 2016. The haunted house this year was a Castle, so instead of medieval costumes like the Hoaglands had we came as contemporary royal dignitaries visiting the castle – easy costumes with a tuxedo (already had), girls in princess costumes (already had) and Erin re-purposing her dress from 2010 when she was Princess Peach (note after two kids, it still fits!). Our best year was still probably 2014, but we were just glad to make it. Oh and these are not the kids’ costumes for Halloween.