Halloween has begun

Susquehanna Ward's annual Fall Festival was last night.  The kids debuted their costumes and were very excited to trunk or treat and get candy.  Matt is still sick with what is most likely the seasonal flu so he couldn't attend this year. We missed him but the kids did well with just mom there.  

 We got some pictures before we left.  This year Jack is a GI Joe guy (not a Nazi soldier, he got the wrong salute in this photo).  Anna is a ballerina for her first Halloween.  And Christian, who has become obsessed with all the movies, is Harry Potter.  We'll have a better shot of Christian after Halloween because he wanted to wait for his wand to come in to take a better picture.  

Here is Anna in her tutu.  I love the satin ribbon in the back.  She was going to wear these little black shoes with pink bows that looked like ballet slippers but her chubby little feet wouldn't go in.  So she went with the sparkly pink sneakers instead.  She is doing some fancy work on pointe in this shot.

Just had to show the ruffle butt.  The onesie itself had ruffles going all the way around.  Tsk tsk on the undies showing!

Here is my little Harry Potter.  He made a good one.  He decided he was going to go around to the cars by himself.  It is really strange for me to accept that he is 8 years old and fine to be going around on his own.  Jack ended up running ahead most of the time but I could still see him.  Christian just checked in from time to time. He is getting older so fast!

This is Jack and his friend Jackson.  Costume wise it is his enemy!  Jackson is one of the GI Joe bad guy ninjas and Jack of course is the GI Joe American Hero!  I guess they put their differences aside in the name of candy. 

Anna got a visit from a little boy, Oliver, that was dressed up as a Wild Thing from the book Where the Wild Things Are.  She was a little scared at first but warmed up to him eventually.  Love this face though.

These are most of the new babies in our ward with their mommies.  We have Libby the pumpkin with mommy Kara, Drew as Pooh with mommy Genesee, Little Aedin as Roo with mommy Melissa as Kanga, Anna Ballerina with me, and Hazel the spider with mommy Geri.  What a cute bunch.  It was a fun night!  Happy Halloween!

 

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me and my big girl.  she got new boots.  and a new dress.

my three loves.

The perfect pumpkin. Nice proportion, great shape, good tip. Didn't get it but had to take a picture.  We went to Harman's and did a hay ride over to the pumpkin patch on Saturday.  Both boys picked their pumpkin and we even got a little baby one for Anna.  The boys ran through a little mini corn maze.  They thought that was great.  Jack was acting like it was a game on Survivor.  He was yelling at the top of his voice to Christian, "this way!  turn there!  Turn! Turn!  Go straight!  No!!  Stop!!"  You'd think immunity was at stake or something.  

 

 

 

 

 

Swing Away!

We went to Shamrock Park and Anna had her first ride on a swing and her first trip down the slide.  She seemed to have a great time.  She really liked watching the cars go by.  She kept turning her head every time one passed.  The boys had a fun time running around and trying to figure out the monkey bars with Daddy.

 

she kicks her legs when she gets excited

 

 

 

smells like Fall!

 

Jack and I were going to go Apple picking at Loh's Orchard a little while ago but didn't have time so we just hit up the road side stand and bought some apples there.  Then we attempted to make applesauce.  It was yummy!  And easy!  And Jack even helped.  He got out his little kid knife and helped with cutting the apples into little pieces. 

My big girl Anna is 7 1/2 months now!  We took her to get a flu shot and I asked if I could weigh her.  I wish I could get stats for every month so I was excited I didn't have to wait until November!  She is 17lbs.6oz. and smiley and happy as ever. 

I love that she sleeps with a teddy bear.  Every nap and at bedtime we put it in her arms and she holds it and rolls it around and rubs it on her face and falls fast asleep and looks so cute doing it. 

She also is almost completely weaned and has started holding her own bottle a little.  She still needs help to keep it lifted. 

Matt and I went to the daddy/daughter princess dinner for our stake and taught the girls and their dads how to waltz kinda.  We just taught the basic box step but they caught on and it was very sweet to watch. 

Last thing, the other morning we heard lots of trucks pulling up in front of our house, I peeked out the window and there were four trucks from a tree clearing company.  They were coming to remove the eyesore of a tree from in front of our dead across the street neighbor's house that her alive daughter comes to about one weekend a month.  I wish I had a before shot.  Watching the workers chop down trees (four of them) was fascinating.  I could not tear my eyes away for probably an hour and a half.  It was like watching a public television show.