October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everybody! We just wrapped up a SUPER fun weekend of Halloween festivities! I haven't finished going through ALL of the photos yet -- missing from this are a few snapshots of Angelica "helping" me carve her first pumpkin, and the trip we took to the pumpkin patch with Willy and Anna, but these photos are a start!

First, Angelica in her purple kitty costume, made by my mom. She's been talking about being a purple kitty for Halloween since MARCH! These were taken at our church's Halloween party. They really did a great job. We had a pot luck dinner, and the high school youth group did a fantastic haunted house -- which scared Angelica too much so Scott took her out. I went through though, with a couple of seven year olds who clung to me with fright and then ran screaming from the place after the last room.

At the end they did a "trick or treat", where each kid who was dressed up got to say their name, what they are, and then go through a line of people around the courtyard to get some treats. She got candy and toys, but she was most fascinated by a butterfly stamp that was in one of the treat bags. She was also very excited that her daddy got to be one of the candy givers!
Angelica, the purple kitty.

Acting like a cat :)

A ghost statue, just her size. She kept hugging and kissing it.

This is Katye, one of the girls who works in the church nursery. Angelica <3s her!

Anyway, here's some pictures of Angelica having fun at the church party!

This second set is from our friends Julie and Scott's Halloween party. Their little boy, Jake, who is just as cute as can be, has been in the nursery with Angelica at church for the past year or so. Angelica decided to break out the princess costume for this party (though she will be trick or treating as the purple kitty.

Pushing a baby monkey (Eli) in the swing

Swinging princess!

Baseball princess!

Showing her boyfriend Aidan how to mow the lawn.

More baseball princess.


Tonight we'll be trick or treating with Willy and Anna! I should have more photos of that tomorrow. Have a safe and happy Halloween!



October 25, 2011

(Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Pumpkin Patch 2011

This past weekend we made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch! The pumpkin patch we went to had a fall festival going on that day, and we met up that afternoon before the festival started so that Angelica and Rylie could play and we could get some photos taken. I took over 400 (!) pictures while we were there...here's a sampling of the fun we had!

 







Next week I'll resume the 365 days of Angelica series (Yep! I have kept up with it this long, might as well finish out the year!)

You can also see more of the awesome time we had over at LeeAnn's blog, The Life of Rylie...and Bryce Too!

Our previous pumpkin patch visits:
2008 Pumpkin Patch
2009 Pumpkin Patch (I apparently didn't blog about the 2009 trip!)
2010 Pumpkin Patch


October 24, 2011

#Win a Britax Marathon Car Seat!

I know I've been MIA from blogging for awhile...I promise some new posts are coming! Things are finally settling down (just in time to get started on another crazy holiday season) and I'm really looking forward to sharing what we've been up to! (And nope, nobody's pregnant!)

In the mean time, make sure you check out an AWESOME giveaway that my friend LeeAnn over at The Life of Rylie...and Bryce Too! is hosting! She's giving away a Britax Marathon car seat!