October

October flew by. What a busy month it was for us! Our social calendar was full of Halloween parties, pumpkin patches, and fall festivals. We had a blast celebrating with friends. Here are some of the events that took place.


Ava and Macy went on their very first field trip. Now that they are in Pre-K, they get to take a school bus (it's a little one) to go on field trips. They went to the Pumpkin Patch and had a blast. I couldn't go with them because it was parent/teacher conferences at my school and I couldn't take off work but hopefully I will get to go on another one later in the year. Here is a pic outside the school that day. Sorry it's so shadowy.

 

We also went to the fall festival at our church. You'll have to excuse the fact that they wore the same shirts to almost all of the festivities that we went to. We only have one Halloween shirt and it was a different crowd of people every time. : )

 

Riding the train

Cotton Candy!!!

Macy getting her face painted

Ava showing off her pumpkin

They had this donut bobbing game which was hilarious. They had to try to eat a powdered donut off of a string while keeping their hands behind their back. They were covered in white powder at the after this!

 

One of our neighbors had a pumpkin decorating party. I know I've said this before but we are so lucky to have neighbors that like to be social and that have kids around the same age as ours. We feel so lucky to be in this neighborhood! (again... same shirt but different crowd!)

An attempt to get a picture of all the kids with their pumpkins.

 

 

 

We also had a big, Halloween block party with the whole neighborhood. There was a DJ, a hayride, games, food, prizes, candy, and bounce houses. And the girls got to wear their pirate costumes!! What more could you ask for?

 

I helped out with the games so in all of the excitement I didn't get ANY pictures. Thankfully, Ben took this one of us on the hayride so we at least have one to prove we were there.

 

 

 

Finally... actual Halloween. The girls got to wear their costumes to school that day. They had a trick-or-treat parade that morning and a Halloween party that afternoon. I was able to go the party and snap a few pics.

 This is their BFF Jarrett. I could probably devote a whole blog post to Jarrett stories.

 

 

I took the girls trick or treating around the neighborhood Halloween night and Ben stayed at the house to pass out candy. My ankles were so swollen and my back was killing me but I was not about to stay home and miss the trick or treating fun. It was worth it. They had a blast!

 

 



 

 

See what I mean? Lots of October fun! There were a couple of other things that we didn't get to go to. They had a school carnival that we had to miss because of the neighborhood party and another community thing that we decided to skip because we were fall festivaled out. Maybe next year!