October

Here's a quick recap of October, mostly Halloween.

I got to go on a fun field trip with Emma's class to Maris Farms.

Jared had a birthday! We love celebrating birthdays in this house and usually the celebrating carries on for several days. Here he is enjoying his birthday breakfast.

Later that afternoon we snuck away for a fun date! Dinner, some birthday shopping and a movie while the kids washed the car and had all sorts of fun with Grandma. It was perfect!

We also had a big family get-together to celebrate Jared and cousin Olivia's birthdays. Here's the big moment...

Of course we had to carve a pumpkin with Halloween soon approaching. I'm not a huge fan of this tradition, but the kids love it and thankfully Jared is good to head up the project.

This year the kids didn't really need either of us much at all.

Emma decided early on that she wanted to be a dog for Halloween. Surprise, surprise!

She got to use her costume all weekend long. She started off by going to a Halloween party with cousin Olivia and her family of Super Heroes. I think Superman (Super girl in this case) had a dog.. right? She fit in just fine with Black Widow, the Hulk, Super girl and Captain America. I think she wore her costume pretty much all weekend long because Olivia's birthday party was a costume party, and they also went to a Halloween carnival. Emma was in heaven! Dog costume or not, she pretty much spends about half of the time on all fours barking like a dog so this was a dream come true for her.

Finally, it was officially Halloween. Jared loves getting the kids all made up. Even little Austin took his turn getting his face painted this year.

Don't they look great!?

We have our Dog, Emma.

An Angry Bird.

A Skeleton.

And a Ghost Princess.

We met up with some friends and the trick or treating began!

Emma and her friend Natalie love to coordinate their costumes. Natalie was a vet this year. Emma was excited that if she got hurt, Natalie would give her a band aid.

The kids made out with a serious stash of candy this year.

The sorting and counting.

It literally spread from one end of our house to the other.

And that pretty much covers October. Next time I blink, it will be Thanksgiving.