Halloween 2011

Halloween was a blast this year! The boys wanted to be Packer football players and Anna was a monkey.

My littlest monkey!Hut Hut!Brady was SO excited to go trick-or-treating this year. He was sitting by the door waiting for us to finish getting ready singing, "We're going trick-or-treating, we're going trick-or-treating!" It was adorable!

We met up with our good friends the Grotjahn's to start the night. Unfortunately, Kaylee was sick this year, but we still went out with Madi. She and Brady are quite the good buds since they go to school together every day now.

Off to gather up some candy!Alex had so much fun, but his little legs just couldn't keep up. Andy ended up carrying him a lot. My favorite was that Alex would go up to a house and say "Trick-or-treat!" Then he would stare wide eyed at the candy, walk half way down the driveway and then whisper, "thank you!"Anna was a trooper. We bundled her up and she spent the evening walking with me in her Snuggli.Our annual stop and Grandma and Grandpa Schwartzhoff'sand at Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's.It was a great Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving

The Friday before Halloween we had a great family fun night of pumpkin carving! The boys were so excited. They couldn't wait to dig in and get started. We had a pizza party and then got to work. Here is Alex beginning to scoop away.

Once the seeds came out of the pumpkin, Alex decided Brady should scoop and he would just play in the slop.Beside himself happy!Enjoying every minute.Anna wanted in on the pumpkin action too. She was reaching for everything so we just gave her her own little pumpkin.Our final product. The boys picked out the designs. They were especially excited about our Angry Birds.The boys with the final product the next morning.

It's Beautiful!

Alex sure has a sweet tooth. Andy stopped at a Hostess store and got a box of Ding Dong (his favorite). When we gave Alex one to eat one night after dinner he gasped and proclaimed, "It's beautiful!" We all died laughing. Love his great personality!

Pumpkins! Packers! It's fall!

Hands down my favorite picture of my three kiddos. I love fall and this picture just turned out great!

Brady was so excited to carve pumpkins!Alex just wanted to hug the little ones.Here's a smile, but he wouldn't look at the camera.I just loved this one of Anna in her Packer gear.

A Day in Eagan

With three kids, I don't feel like we do many spur of the moment things anymore. Two weeks ago we decided one morning that we would head to the cities for the day to see Jen and Jerry. They were glad to have us come and it was fun to do something rather spontaneous. They took us to this great park in Eagan where we played for hours and enjoyed the beautiful fall day.

Poor Alex was so worn out, he feel asleep in the swing.

Cars 2 Shirts!

Grandma Johnson got the boys these great Finn McMissle shirts from Cars 2 at a Disney outlet. They are so cute and were a BIG hit! Thanks, Grandma!

Solid Food!

We were a little slow getting going, but Anna is starting to eat solid food! Last month she began on rice cereal. This was her first meal of cereal and she did great! We had better get moving is this girl is going to eat birthday cake in March!

My Cutie

Anna is getting so big! She is getting lots better at sitting up on her own and is really getting into playing with her toys. She loves anything that plays music or rattles and puts everything into her mouth. Hard to believe she was 7 month old already last month!

A Berge Visit

We love having our good friends the Berges come to town! In October they came for a weekend and we enjoyed the great weather out at Carson Park and just hung out. With 8 kids in the house, it was an amazing relaxing weekend. Love this bunch!

Brewtober

October baseball is the best...especially when your team has made the playoffs! We really enjoyed watching the Brew Crew in the playoffs. This is Alex doing his Beast-mode! It was so cute!

Anna got all decked out for the big games too!Andy was thrilled to see his baby girl in Brewer gear!Just chillin' watching the game. No good pics of Brady from this game. He wouldn't sit still long enough to get a good one. :)

UWEC Homecoming

As always, we went to the UWEC Homecoming parade in early October. As you can see it was a beautiful, unusually warm day. The boys loved snuggling in with Grandma and Grandpa to watch all the bands, trucks, and floats go by. Oh and let's not forget scrambling for candy!

Me and my little sis.Anna enjoyed all the sights too. Yep...we've entered the bib phase. Ugh.

Quality Time with Grandpa

I just love this pictures of my dad and Anna spending some quality time together!

Creepy Cakes

Well, I'm officially a month behind in blogging...All of October's pictures were still on my camera when November 1st hit and now it's time to catch up. Goodness, it's been a busy month!

We started off October by making some Creepy Cupcakes at home. I do this project with my kids at school every year and decided we should make our own at home. The boys loved them and it was a lot of fun! Alex bit the nose off of his first!

Brady was just excited about the candy corn.Andy wanted to use the maximum amount of candy possible.We were messy, but sure had fun!