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Virginia Voters!

Walking out after voting around 11:00 this afternoon. We were offered free candy by the Obama supporters, but this family held strong and walked on by. Granted the girls weren't paying attention to the Obama table but I denied the free chocolates! Strong Republican!
Craig voted at 7am and actually had to wait in an hour long line.

Nora's "I voted" sticker and she also received one for her Webkinz kangaroo.
Charlotte and her "I voted" sticker.
The second best part of our day after voting of course was trading in our stickers for free chicken sandwiches at Chick-fil-A. YEAH! Craig informed us of this cool thing because he went at lunch to get his sandwich. We were lucky and found a spot to park and waited in a long line to get our sandwiches.
Awesome free sandwiches with waffle fries!
Yummo! So we have received 3 pro-McCain calls today. First McCain called, then Robert Duvall, then a random GOPer to tell us to make sure we voted! This is very exciting. Must watch TV now. Polls close in one hour here in VA!

are these voters?

Trick or Treat

It was SO difficult to get a picture of the girls last night before they set off trick or treating with their dad. Use the flash, get red eyes, use nighttime setting, get blurred photos, and no flash results in this. Luckily Craig took pictures too and they came out awesome. Just make due with my murky photos for now.

After I got the kids all ready, photos on front steps taken by mom and dad, perfect time to leave at dusk, Craig goes back into the house to make two turkey sandwiches to eat while he's walking the girls around. I almost busted my gut! "What are you doing!" " Why didn't you do this earlier, it's time to go!" "You always find something to do at the last second and it makes me crazy!" My 4yr old daughter pulled me aside to tell me to take it easy. Seriously. She put me on the stairs for a timeout, basically told me to mind my manners! God love her!

ETA: Check out this fun costume this mom made. Good idea.

Happy Halloween!

Busy week here at the Schneider household. On Monday, Craig's buddy Paul came to visit. Craig and Paul were in the navy and room mates out in San Diego. We haven't seen Paul since we left San Diego and now he lives in Brazil. So he was in the states this week catching up with family and friends and we were excited he came for a visit. No one was as excited as Nora and Charlotte. They absolutely loved having Paul here. They are sweet southern hostesses and they loved showing "Mr. Paul" their playroom and artwork!

So we did some touristy things while Paul was here such as bringing him to the Shirley Plantation and Williamsburg. Paul is also has a photography business in Brazil so he and Craig were a bit competitive taking pictures of the girls. Craig, of course, taught Paul all he knew, but I think Paul may have taught the master, but don't let Craig know I said that!

I bought Nora and Char some stuffed horses in a touristy shop and they are holding up their horses so the real horses can "see" them. So cute!

Big day at school on Thursday. We had a Halloween parade and class party. I was the room mother for Nora's class and I got the kids playing musical chairs, hot potato, and they got to decorate their own cookies. I think Nora loved having me there. She got to hand out the stickers to her classmates after the game and she had a big proud smile on her face. I loved that!

Here is Charlotte walking in the parade. She is a fairy princess. She is wearing Nora's ballet costume from her dance recital and a cool pair of wings!

Nora and her teacher Mrs. Niemaseck. She's a really fun teacher and Nora likes her a lot.

Now this is Mrs. Bradley and the girls adore her. She was Nora's teacher last year and Charlotte's this year. Char is a big ham around her!

Today we carved our pumpkins and I will write a new post tomorrow with pictures as well as trick or treat pictures.

Happy Halloween!

Sunday endings

We ended our busy day with some sneaky putt putt on the golf course. The girls are taking a quick golf lesson here from their dad.

Charlotte is mesmerized by her dad's awesomeness at golf.

Nora enjoying Nature more than the sound fundamentals of a golf swing.

No golf carts on the horizon. Quick, let's get on the green and get some golf on!

Yes, Dad is practicing his chipping and he did take the shot with the kids standing next to the flag. No... he did not hit them, but he did get a stern talking to from the hot tempered Irish woman who almost did get hit while taking this picture.

Pumpkin Patch

Pumpkin Patch today! We got there at 9:45am and stayed until 1:00pm. We were pretty smart this time and brought bags to carry our pumpkins. We didn't have our man with us to carry our pumpkins, so I had to make due with some shoulder bags.

The girls were having a blast playing with their friends. We rode out on a tractor to the patch and ran to where we saw the biggest pumpkins and grabbed three we saw there. We had to dash back to the tractor because it was taking off with our friends on board without us. When we were on the ride I saw a truck pull in and start unloading more pumpkins in the patch. I didn't realize they have to refill it all day. I would have hung around because the pickings where kinda slim on our time in the patch. Nora and Charlotte were totally happy with any pumpkin they got, it was their greedy gus mama who wanted a ginormous pumpkin!

We fed the goats, went through a small maze in the barn, and played on the playground.

It was getting packed and school buses were dropping off loads of kids and then a large busload of kids coming to use the playground had smocks on with the name of a certain school in our area that made all the news because they had to shut it down for a week because of some highly contagious virus going around.

Immediately I go...."Nora & Charlotte follow me!!" I led them off the playground to a place far away to have a snack and play with a couple of their friends. Better safe than sorry in my book!

So it was only about 50 degrees or so today and I COULDN'T get my children to wear a jacket!

Their little bodies must have that fine Yankee blood running through it because most of their southern brethren were decked out in jackets, winter coats, and some hats & gloves.

Strange because last year at this patch it was so hot getting our pumpkins, we were sweating our tails off.

So we've got a busy weekend planned with some shopping, religious ed., and our neighborhood harvest festival.

Also a big shout out to our favorite fashion guru/baby clothes hider on her birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLIECAT!