Who'd've thought?

It's already time for winter hats and mittens… looking forward to some snow, ha ha!

Open Houses

As luck would have, both of the girls' school's open houses occurred on the same night. We made it to both, but all were pretty tired afterwards. We really enjoyed the Elementary School one as we haven't yet seen the school in it's entirety. They provided us with a scavenger hunt to complete so we visited every room and met the different specialty teachers. 

 Cora with classmate Anna Grace

 Emi jumped in and started playing a xylephone

 Louisa joined Cora in doing "ladders" in the gymnasium

Over at Emi's classroom as she shows off how to be a teacher and morning circle time

Emi and classmate Aliyan doing a science project "sink or float" 

Cute pic

hello?!?!?

Boo!

A great Halloween week…. First, pumpkin carving lessons by daddy!

 Inspecting the guts

 Ewwwww!

 Serious work with understudy

 Ta-dah!

Next came Emi's Halloween party at school...

 Creepy oreo spiders

 Pin the tail on the cat

Finally, dinner with friends before trick-or-treating…. A crisp, 52 degree night that necessitated layers and sweatsuits under costumes. We lasted 47 minutes trick-or-treating :)

 Snake calzones

 Witches fingers

 Fruit kabobs

Trick or treat! The kiddos had a ball  :) We ladies walked them around and daddy's handed out candy. Here's hoping we've started a new tradition! 

Trunk or Treat 2014

We had a beautiful (albeit a bit hot --- 86 degrees) day for the annual Trunk or Treat! We had a great turn-out and fun was had by ALL :) 

The Madea Farm

 Hanging out with Liam (minion without his costume on…)

Emi getting some treats from Mt. Sinai  

Nice mullet...

 Hooray for the airplane ride!

Louisa even got to ride it this year and LOVED it (she rode 3 sequential times!)

 Our buddy Emily didn't like it so much...

Handing out candy with some helpers

 Riding the train

 With friend Caroline

Farm animals at the Petting zoo... 

 Check out Emi's awesome tail!

 Feeding (and befriending) a goat

 With buddy Sammie from school

With Molly the babysitter

With Mr. Jim (before/after) 

With friends Ethan and Erin at the duck pond

Hopefully another great night's sleep!!!

Cora apparently won "best costume" this year -- and got a trophy after church today :) 

Excellent dinner...

So it's not quite Paleo, but we sure enjoyed our jack-o-lantern pizza from Papa Murphy's tonite!

Halloween festivities begin...

This evening we attended the Jack-o-Lantern Gymboree at Gymstars. The girls wore their stand-by princess costumes as their halloween ones are not quite ready!

 Perhaps the sweetest picture of the day… Cora helping princess Louisa put on her high heels

 Cinderella's all ready!

 C+E getting their faces painted (do you see the madness behind?!?!)

 Louisa was jazzed to finally get to explore the gym floor… she started with the cow beam

 Jasmine (minus a few accessories)…on high bar

 Rock wall

 Ropes

 Emi and Louisa navigating a smaller beam

 Cinderella on the parallel bars

Vaulting (nice action shot!)

Jasmine on higher beam

We ALL went home rather tired, looking forward to a good night's sleep!