Celebrate Fall

Several weekends ago, we spent our Saturday afternoon and evening carving pumpkins and eating Chicago pizza with our good friends Tim, Mary Beth and Hannah. We had hoped Hannah and Sarai would want to be a little more involved in the process but they didn't want to have anything to do with the goo inside the pumpkins. They were just happy to sit back and watch the adults :-) But they enjoyed sitting next to their carved pumpkins and checking them out all lit up on the front porch!

Aren't their aprons cute! I found them at the Dollar Tree :-)

Mike making weird faces while carving our pumpkin.

Hannah and her daddy, Tim

Hannah and Sarai enjoying the fruits of their parent's labor :-)

Mary Beth carved a "W" in a pumpkin for Tim because he graduted from the University of Wisconsin

And of course, we celebrated Halloween on Friday of this past week. Sarai had asked to be a butterfly so we bought her a pair of wings and paired them up with a black gymsuit with butterflies on it that she already had in her dresser. It wasn't fancy but she loved it! She ran around the yard saying "flapping wings, flapping wings!" We actually had flurries earlier in the week and I was a little concerned it would be cold Halloween evening. But it turned out to be a beautiful day. We even went to the park that morning! Since it was so nice out, we set up our camp chairs on the driveway and passed out candy while enjoying our neighbors and the pleasant fall night.

Going "Trick or Treating" with daddy while mommy passed out candy

My little butterfly

Sarai walked all the way down our side of the street by herself and carried her own bucket but daddy had to carry the tired butterfly back home.

Examining all the goodies :-)