Fall Break - Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues

Finally! A post about fall break!

Above, Briana is sitting in my Nana's rocking chair (my great grandmother) at my parents' house.

We went over to my parents' house for a belated Rosh Hashanah dinner on the Saturday night leading into fall break. Briana had lots of fun playing with Cousin N1 (and now that I have two nephews with N names - I need to refer to them now at N1 and N2!)...

Of course Gramma always has some sort of present for Miss B...

Here is Papa reading his cards...

And cutting the challah bread... 

Briana wearing a yalmulke (girls don't usually wear them - especially directly on the top of their heads - but she likes to and she is super cute)...

Hiding with Cousin N1 under Gramma's dining room table...

Briana had already had a full Saturday before the dinner because she had a soccer game and Chinese dance class. The moms got a little sneak peek that day of what the girls are learning now...

Sunday morning/afternoon, Doug abandoned Bri and I went to the Tour Championship at the East Lake Golf Club with his friend Jimmie. It was a beautiful day as you can see in the pictures he e-mailed me...

Bri and I just had a quiet day at home that day because we had to gear up for a full blown shopping day on Monday with Gramma!

Hugs all around...

Briana brought some of her money (earned from the tooth fairy, chores, etc) to buy an item at the mall. This is who she picked to bring home...

Of course we did lots of clothes and shoe shopping...

And a little frozen yogurt making was necessary as well...

It was a great day and Briana came home with some cool new boots and a few cute outfits for fall.

Tuesday, Briana had a play date with her friend Emily from school. The girls ran around the playground for over two hours!!

That afternoon, I promised to make a tower out of tinker toys with Briana. This was our finished product...

And that evening, Briana had some daddy/daughter time with Doug. He took her to soccer practice and then out to dinner.

I made her go to bed a bit early that night because we had a full day planned for Wednesday.

Apple Picking!!!!

School Photo

I know I should be writing posts about the fun we had on fall break last week - I just haven't had a chance to get to them written yet! 

So for now, I am going to post this adorable school photo of my sweet girl. This is the one that will go in the school yearbook. She looks so pretty! And she looks like she really knows how to pose for a photo.

I wonder where she learned that from. Heh.

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Festivities

The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival landed this past weekend and I am very grateful to our local FCC (FCCA) for putting together the annual picnic to celebrate the occasion.

Briana picked out this Chinese silk dress to wear to the picnic...

We arrived at the center and Briana had her fan and lantern in hand...

First, Briana and her friend Kira headed inside to make a hand-crafted lantern...

And friend Emma joined us too...

Look what I made!

After some lantern making, we headed to the lawn to eat dinner. Here are Briana and Emma...

Hula hoops were available for some hooping fun... 

I brought along one of Bri's small China dresses for Kira to wear...

There was a ball through the hoop game and also a marshmallow and chopsticks game...

The sun started going down and Briana turned on her lantern. I got this adorable lantern at Target. They were really being sold for July 4th, but I knew it was perfect for this occasion...

I had one for Kira too...

The lanterns were so bright, Briana and Kira were asked to lead the parade of lanterns...

Group photo opp!!!

The moon finally started to make an appearance toward the end of the picnic...

It was beautiful and bright...

On Sunday, Briana and I baked moon cookies (in jammies)! I didn't do it from scratch this year, I just bought some sugar cookie dough. But they were still yummy! 

We still put some jelly on some...

Bri watched them bake in the oven...

Bri wanted to make some crescent moons and half moons as well this year...

She was very pleased with the results!

So that was our moon-filled weekend!

I am going to recap our vacation week in my next few posts - so stayed tuned!!!