2nd ANNUAL Costume Party

This year marked our SECOND annual costume party in our city

And it was quite the crew- check em out!

Can you guess who we are????

Give Up?

"Despicable Me" movie....

Craig = GRU

Danielle & Levi = Minions

Riley = Agnes (the youngest orphan girl)

*Please note- Levi totally left me hanging and let his suspenders fall and he would NOT put on his goggles I worked SO HARD to make out of toilet paper rolls, duct tape, string, and some pipe cleaner. That's right, you do what ya can when living in South Asia ;))

One of my favorites- our friend is pregnant with TWINS ;)
Such a cute idea!!!!

Two movie stars... but different movies

Who are they???

Ready- set- GUESS!

Riley, aka "Agnes", sporting her FIRST pony tail.

SO STINKING CUTE!

Yes this is blurry... and that is because I could not stop LAUGHING long enough to take a still shot :)

Beth went all out with her Mary Poppins get up this year ;)

Ok- well ya know, it's the thought that counts.

We did find out, however, that this little red ribbon morphs her into one OUTSTANDING game show host!

She totally rocked hosting "The Newlywed Game" for all the couples at the party. It was a BLAST!

Good ol' GiGi:

Did I mention this ponytail made her 10x more adorable

(I know I know I know- how is that even POSSIBLE. haha)

 

Levi receiving his award for "Cutest Little Minion Costume"

(He LOVES this medal! Thanks Jason & Sarah :)

And the all around "Best Costume" award went to Mr. UP:

The evening commenced with yummy food and some intense rounds of the Newly Wed Game

Hosted my Mary Poppins, herself!

Seriously though- we had a blast.

Thanks for throwing the party Jason & Sarah!

Guest Post: People Helping People

Some exciting things that we have been up to.... check out my friend, Katie's, blogpost:

http://oursneakpeek.blogspot.in/2013/11/people-helping-people.html

Then check out the TAZA page, VOTE, and Share the TAZA page with your friends on FB, twitter, pinterest, word of mouth, any way you can think of!!!!

Grateful for your support!

Food FACES

 

 

. Pool Time Pals & Papa .

"Hey GUYS! Come on out and check out the FUN :) "

 Someone has also thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to "water the grass" when it's pool time:

(Such a BOY!)

One day Papa made pool time EXTRA fun by creating a WATER SLIDE:

 Levi had a B.L.A.S.T!!!

Papa totally got the COOL award that day.

 This little girl just loved being in her Papa's hands :)

Sibling Photo Shoot

. REWIND: Road Trips & Reunions with Friends .

The G-clan was so kind to host our crew of four for a week in October.

And we have lots of FUN to show for it!

Levi & Parks are too much alike, it cracks me up!

And sweet Wint is just learning to jump on in :)

Cupcakes and candles are always a fun way to celebrate a friend's birthday:

His wife is so precious and beautiful!

Riley hanging out with Ryan:

Brandy,

Your kids are SO SO kind and thoughtful in how they invite my kiddos to join in on all they do.

So grateful for their sweet spirits!

For our friend's birthday, we decided to go to a park.

Little did we know they would have CAMELS there!!!!

We didn't ride them this time, but next time we might just give it a shot :)

Levi stuck with the "safe & stationary" route this time.

We totally spotted a peacock UP IN THIS TREE!

Don't know if you can see it, but regardless, it needed to be NOTED :)

We always love bedtime stories, and especially with Papa!

Thanks for being such great hosts guys!

Riley decided to start doing "big girl" things, and was pulling herself up into standing position on everything while we were there:

Cute & Talented ;)

And we must have hit "harvest time" on our way home because the fields were sprinkled with all kinds of colors, which happened to be the beautiful sarees worn by the women who were harvesting the crops.

It was so NEAT to see!

Oh and don't worry- 

this is totally NORMAL to have to come to a complete STOP in the middle of a 4 lane highway because the mass herd of cows crossing ;)

(Yep, only in South Asia!)

"Thanks for joining us on our journey!"