Happy Halloween!

The kids woke up bright and early and were ready for a full day of Halloween fun: Nate and Riley had a costume parade and parties at school, we went trick-or-treating early in our town with the Roses, and then had Gramps and the Hoseas over for trick-or-treating around our neighborhood.  The kids are asleep and I'm eating candy...shhh! :)

We had to carve new pumpkins last night since our first ones were attracting lots of bugs. This picture was taken today at 7AM, thanks to our early risers.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Gramps with Ben & Lars

Soccer, Piano & Girl Scouts - Oh my!

October has kept us on our toes!

Nate's soccer pictures:

 Nate and Riley had their first piano recital, and they got to wear their costumes:

Mesh and I went to a friend's wedding reception.  Riley had a lot of fun helping me get ready:

Riley had her welcome ceremony and is officially a girl scout!

Gramps put the kids to bed:

Our neighborhood's Halloween festival:

October Happenings

The school year is chugging along and the kids have happily settled into a nice routine. We are glad we weathered through all the changes that this school year brought with it.

Nate's love for reading just keeps growing - he brings a book everywhere he goes. :)

Riley and I had her last soccer game of the season.  Nate's season goes through mid-November.

Riley's favorite food (and likely a contributing factor to her love of going to church)! ;)

 Nate just finished the book Bunnicula and the play happened to be playing at a local children's theater so we went to see it as a family.  Riley and Ben were a bit scared! In case you haven't read the book, don't worry, the bunny only preys on vegetables.

Iyer pumpkins: Riley's, Nate's, bonus ghost pumpkin, Ben's

Go Benny Ben!

Where's Meshie?

Riley on her class field trip to a farm.  Mesh went along too!

Haircuts and lunch out with mom:

Ben at dad's night at his school:

Fall is here!

We were welcomed into October with a beautiful sunny weekend so we took our traditional trip to the pumpkin patch with our friends the Roses. It was also our town's annual salmon festival and the kids had their first day of Sunday school this year.  

And Bambi keeps returning to our yard and brought a friend today.  They were just sitting out there when we arrived home and stayed for a few hours.