Halloween was beautiful weather!  We spent the morning at the park with friends,    Stopped by Grandma's work to show her the kids' costumes,   Said hello to Grandpa fixing his roof, while Carter tried to touch the tree on the swing (I have memories doing the same thing at my grandparent's house as a kid!)    …

Since there was no school on Halloween due to the end of the quarter, the kids celebrated at school on the day before.  Zach's entire class dressed up as zombies to dance to Thriller.  You can see how excited he was about that.  (His costume was a nametag that said "Hello, My name is Jim.")…

Meg chose to be Belle for her preschool Halloween day – funny girl.  She had been waiting for Rapunzel forever and then ???  She was super cute and super excited though!       (Enjoying an after-school Halloween "book club" on the front porch in our beautiful fall weather!) And lately she has been walking Stella…

Meg's darling ballet teacher had a parent day for Halloween… we got to stay and watch, and the girls got to dress up for ballet that day.  (Meg thought Rapunzel hair would be too tricky to dance in, and didn't want to wear the dress without the hair, so she was a ballerina butterfly mouse.…

  Emma did a great job, and it was such a nice night to appreciate music, hard work, and people who teach an appreciation for music!  Emma loved having all of her grandparents there to see her perfom!

       …to carve out the pumpkins!  Somehow we got really busy right before Halloween (oh yeah, we just stayed really busy since baseball hadn't ended!) and it was tricky to find a time where everyone was home to do it!  We ended up squeezing it in between dinner and Emma's piano recital… luckily, everyone scooped…

Meg making Nate hold her ballet library book just right so she could look at it while she danced… Meg made a handprint "efelant" project at school and told me about the process of making it over and over again… what will we do when we don't have a 3 year old around here for…

A timeline of events:   Friday – kids bring home photo order forms.  I look them over and choose what packages to get.   I make a mental note about picture day on Tuesday.   Saturday – I send an email to Zach's class about October calendar items.  I include a reminder about picture day…

My sister got tickets to the conference center for women's conference, so Emma and I went with the girls to the meeting and to dinner downtown.  I expertly backed the suburban into a perfect getaway spot, we hurried through city creek with our umbrellas in the pouring rain, and we settled into our seats with…

Love baking with these girls!