emma's 10th birthday party: we celebrated a bit early so we could go to the premiere of High School Musical 3, which, if you have any girls aged 3 through 15, you know is a very big deal. especially here in salt lake, due to the fact that we've
all suffered through the filming in our neighborhoods. emma took three of her best friends and allowed lily and mom to each bring one, and we had HSM shirts, treats, etc. it was pretty awesome.
halloween: lily posing as the cutest witch ever.
kathryn, meanwhile, had to go with the High School Musical theme for the candy distribution. she found this wig buried in the attic dress-up stash and made all the trick-or-treaters say "East High Forever!" before they could get the special HSM candy she found. As mentioned above, we go a little crazy for HSM around here because it was filmed at my high school. That kind of overcomes the plot deficits.
las vegas trip: a couple of weeks ago my generous parents took the girls and me to las vegas for the weekend. we swam for hours and hours, we visited some friends, and saw donny & marie which was entertaining for everyone. we also went to the siegfried & roy "secret garden" dolphin and white tiger habitat. here are the girls on the back of one of the tiger statues (they couldn't actually pet the real ones, much to their dismay).
we also thought the 6-week old baby dolphin was a pretty big treat.
