Happy Halloween

I was so excited for Halloween to be on a Sunday this year.  The kids didn't have to rush home from school, hurry to eat, put on their costumes and rush to start trick or treating.  We were able to have a relaxing afternoon after carving our pumpkins and take our time getting ready. Ella was not feeling well after having a fever all week and a terrible cough so she decided not to trick or treat. This was not a suprise even if she was feeling her best.  Ella has never been a big fan of Halloween but she did pick out the cutest costume, a bunny, that I don't even have a picture of her wearing....maybe we can save it for next year.

Emma, aka: the witch

Taylor, aka: the batarina or bat ballerina. Who really knows what this is but please remember she is "almost" 10 and this was "cool mom"!

Ella's cat pumpkin which she did clean and carve herself.

Apples & Pumpkins

 This fall, we took our usual apple picking trip to McQueen's Apple Orchard. As always, the girls had great fun picking apples and climbing the trees.  I think climbing the trees has become more fun than apple picking the past few years. We also visited a new pumpkin farm in Napoleon this year, Leaders Family Farm.  It was an unusually warm 90 degree mid October day but the girls, along with their cousins, Hope, Calla and JT had great fun painting pumpkins, petting animals at the petting zoo and taking a hay ride through the forest.