Halloween Costumes

Here is the kids costumes for this year!

 Tucker's is my favorite!! I laugh every time I look at him in this costume! 

....SO hard to get a decent picture of a two year old that never holds still...

 As you can tell... Whitney feels quite beautiful in her costume.  

She is VERY obsessed with Cinderella right now.

Fall Festivities

We have once again been diving fully into all of the fall festivities for the month of October!  

PUMPKIN PATCH

We went to a pumpkin patch & they said you could pick as big of a pumpkin as you wanted so I literally picked the biggest one that I could carry by myself! All the other moms were impressed by my big muscles ;)  Here is the kids with their new best friends that moved in a few houses down. 

 Vic had a work meeting in Indianapolis so we joined him at the hotel & then went to the zoo while he was in meetings.

INDIANAPOLIS ZOO

 They happened to have Zoo Boo going on so the kids got to play games while they were there.

 Ha, Whit looks like Hitler :)

***NOTE TO SELF: ADD IN REST OF ZOO PICTURES HERE!*********

ART CLASS
 Tommy finished his fall art class that he'd been going to once a week.  He really liked it & I wish there was another session before we move! Can you believe Tommy was wearing those shorts to the park on October 13th & a few days later he had to wear a winter coat! It turned to winter overnight here!

FALL TREATS

 We had fun making these marshmallow candy corn men for our friends.

 MILESTONES!

Tucker started crawling & waving hi.

He also randomly started saying "dada, tada, & tu tu" so not sure if we get to count "dada" as his first word or not!

CRAFTS

 Me made pumpkin snowman guys & painted them.

ZOO CARNIVAL 

Our local zoo has "Boo at the Zoo" so we layered them up for it.

 Even with the layers they froze!

 They had a train ride with scenes from classic children stories.  This was Tommy's favorite part so I guess it was worth the long wait!

 This little horse ride was Whitney's favorite.

MALL TRICK OR TREAT

And last, we went to the mall to trick or treat which was fun because the kids got to actually wear their costumes how they were meant to look without layers!

 Whitney was always all shy walking up to the candy givers, but then came racing back with a huge grin every time.

...and many more things to add to our list in the next couple of days!!

Date!

Vic & I never go on a date, but we couldn't resist when we were handed free tickets to the Purdue football game!  It was fun to go by ourselves.  It's funny, being without kids makes me feel young again!

 I was so impressed with the marching band. Right here they were spelling out "HOPE" for breast cancer month.

Fall Hike

We normally find lots of hikes in the fall, but our fall flew by as we were busy with Disney world, job interviews, & packing to move.  We took our good friends, the Formans, with us on a close by hike.

Tucker's 7 Month Pictures!

Tucker's 7 month pictures! (I was too busy at 6 months!) 6/7 month pictures are my favorite. I had a hard time deciding which ones to post on here! I got to use one of my new backdrops I got for my birthday & loved it!  It made it so much easier to get quick, cute pictures!

Tucker NEVER stops smiling like this!

 He is the chunkiest baby ever!!! Already wearing 12 month clothes!

 This is his little army crawl he is getting around with.

 Cutey Wootey Chunka-rooey!

August & September Update

The month of August we laid low & had lots of park visits & backyard excursions.

I took this picture to remember that this summer almost every visit to the park Tommy had to make a "castle" in the bark.

 Tommy took his first jump off the diving board & loved it!

 Funny how exciting our backyard can be with just a little kiddy pool back there!

 When we got back from vacation we realized summer was over & we still hadn't gone camping so we had a camp out in the backyard.  The kids loved it & went crazy with excitement. Vic thought one of the neighbors might call noise patrol on us!  We left it up for 3 weeks because the kids used it almost daily as a playhouse!

 Tucker started doing an army crawl.  I guess he's too big to hold himself up for a real crawl.... he is a chunk as you will see in my next post of his 7 month pictures!

No story on this one, I just like this picture!

 I turned 30.  I had a big "Fancy Nancy" party all planned out, but I wasn't feeling the love from my friends so I decided last minute to not do it or anything for that matter!  I worked & my coworkers threw me a little mini party on my lunch break so we re-lit the candles & had the half eaten cake below with the kids.  They didn't seem to notice that it was half gone.  Right after this picture Whitney leaped over & blew out my candles so I didn't have time to make a wish this year!

 I came back from our walk & found this cute surprise on my door.... 

....had this yummy treat dropped off....

....had a friend drop that card in the middle to me at work, Vic had those flowers delivered to my work, & came home to that gift bag on the right w/ balloons on my front step.  

HmMMMMmmm.... um, guess I should have had that party with my loving friends after all. Oops, maybe next year I'll pretend to be 29 like the rest of the world & have that big 30 bash then! :)