Oh Austin.....

You would have thought he was the one up early for Black Friday!! (I was shopping at 4 am with my mom and dad! My mom was up at 3 am! For some reason, this has become one of my Dad's favorite things.....hauling us girls around to all the stores!! We missed Rachel this year as she was in Montevideo!)I brought back a pack of silly rings for Katelynn from my shopping trip to St. Cloud...I had to go get a pack for Austin yesterday! He has spent HOURS playing with these!!

ps....the other day I was scolding him...he said "you can't be mad at me....just look at my face, and smiled!! He's right!

12 inches of snow.....I guess winter has arrived!

This picture makes me laugh...almost a week later most of it is still on there!!

Trick or Treating

Batgirl and Robin

We had pumpkin pizza again this year and then headed out around our neighborhood. Each year it seems like we make it a little longer and get more candy!! The kids even liked handing out candy back at our house!!

Halloween Party!!!

We had a kids halloween party the day before Halloween! Treats, crafts, pinata, and lots of cute costumes! I am definitely not a master in the kitchen, but tried to make some fun treats!

Witch Cupcakes
Skeleton Brain Dip
Pumpkin Cheeseball

(stolen from Heidi).....Making Masks

(stolen from Heidi's blog)..Glad Heidi got a picture of the pinata! It turned out to be really fun! (besides Zachary hurting his hand!)

Joe Mauer, Batgirl, and Robin showed up at the party!

What a crew!!

Our annual Pumpkin carving with PAPA!!

Katelynn "designed" her and Austin's pumpkin faces on paper this year, and then helped draw them out on the pumpkin!

The kids didn't like the goop in the middle this year....so Papa and Mommy did most of the work!

The weather is still pretty nice for October football games!

Katelynn is hooked on these books.....I have made more trips to Barnes & Noble in the last couple weeks than I have since we've moved to Moorhead! It is a series of 7 chapter books and we went to pick up #6 tonight as they had to order it for us....and guess what? There are many more sets in the series!! (hopefully I can find USED books on amazon!)