halloween

This year was an awesome halloween.  The twins were so aware and into this year.  They learned how to say "trick or treat" and would run up to the doors with Julian to take turn ringing the doorbell.  Julian was great with them, waiting for them to keep up with him and taking turns with the doorbell.  Another first for us, that is for the first time in the past 9 Halloweens, we had family here to see the kids in their costumes and to walk with us door to door.  Another perk for living near family.  

All the kids picked their own costumes, and were very opinionated about what they wanted to be.

Lilly- was a bad witch.
Alex- was a spider (which he was last year but he wanted to be it again. )  He wanted to be a fireman, until Lilly's costume had spiders on it.  And since Lilly was a bad witch, he was a bad spider.

Julian- was a skeleton.  This was a little more difficult.  Chris took Julian shopping for a costume after I had my gallbladder out and was resting.  A simple task.  They didn't have much to pick from so Julian got a spiderman costume.  Well the day before Halloween, I learn that Julian doesn't like it and he is embarrased to wear it to school for the parade the next day.  This is not very much notice that he doesn't like it.  So, I go searching around the house for an alternative for school the next morning.  We came up with a baseball player with his old uniform from baseball season last spring in PA.  Then, while everyone was at school, I went to target to find a not embarrassing costume.  And came up with the skeleton.  What we do for our kids to be happy.

 I love my mommy's boy!!!! (and pretty sure he loves me)

 My bad witch and bad spider

 My skeleton

 Even Uncle Blake was here to see the kids off for trick or treating.

 Our next door neighbors.  

 Hard to get all 3 looking at the same time.  But worth a try.

 Looking at all our goodies

October

Can't believe October has come and gone.  This year is flying by.  We have been so busy, it's easy to see the days fly by.  Julian has been very busy after school with football, and that now has come to an end.  It's kind of sad in a way to be over, even though I will not be sad to not have to get him to 4 practices while Chris is busy working.  But, we have made friends and enjoy watching your child participate in a sport.  

Here is a couple odds and ends to bring us to Halloween!

 Our fall decorations!  

 Some pictures of Julian.  Again he is #88.  The Haddam/Killingworth football league bought all the kids the pink socks in support of October breast Cancer awareness month.  Some of these kids don't know the significance, but to those that do, it's really neat to see everyone rally to support a cause.  And it's wonderful to see our league spend the money to support such a needed cause as well.  

 I can't believe how big he is getting.  I stole a quick moment to get a picture with my big man. It's really hard to get these days.  Taking pictures isn't his favorite thing in the world to do, especially while there are audiences. 

 I tried to get some pictures of the trees in and around my neighborhood.  October really is a beautiful time of year in Connecticut.  This is such a wooded and rural area, and it is so pretty just to drive around.  I have learned that I do love this time of year in the north.  The weather has been really nice, and beautiful scenery.  

 My little climber (yes, I am going to put her in gymnastics soon) was found on top of the washer one day.  There is no telling where this little one will end up.

 I had to try to get a couple pictures of this moment.  They play together 24/7.  There are good times and bad, but they truly love each other and would be lost without the other.  

 This was the morning after our October hurricane in Connecticut.  Lilly and Alex were out to survey the damage.  We were extremely lucky compared to our neighboring states to the south.  And thank goodness we decided not to live on the shore.   We only were without power for 12 hours ( and with 3 little ones, that was plenty long enough).  The high winds here brought down some tree  and limbs, but nothing too major.  

Fall is in the air

Today ended up being a beautiful day after a very chilly start.  I didn't know how nice it would be when the low last night was 24 degrees.  I do like fall, but not the fact that what comes next is winter (and I do not like winter).  I also love Saturdays because it is the only day of the week that we are all here together and we don't have to run around doing a million things.  We actually get to spend time together.  When you have a husband that travels all the time, you really appreciate the time when you can just be together as a family.

We decided to go to a farm nearby to pick our yearly pumpkins.  We had a great time.  We got to go on hay rides (Alex loves tractors),  played in a huge box of corn that was at least a foot deep, had corn mazes, pedal cars and tractors, and of course picking our own pumpkins from the field.  The kids had a lot of fun, and Chris and I have fun watching them.

 Alex had just eaten a black halloween lolly pop, hence the dark teeth

 Me and my babies

 On the hay ride to the activities

 Lilly and Alex.  and Alex does have a huge bruise on his head from his recent encounter with the pavement in the driveway

 The corn pit, think we will still be finding corn everywhere.  The kids loved it.

Doing snow angels in the corn!

 Alex loved the picture of the choo choo

 Lilly catching a ride on the wagon with our 5 pumpkins for our front steps.  I promised Chris he only had to carve one of them.  It's not his favorite thing to do, but I told him a must for a childhood activity.