Halloween!

This year for Halloween Austin was a pirate! He loved his costume & I thought it ended up really cute too! My mom made boot covers out of felt to go over a pair of borrowed cowboy boots, and that made the outfit complete! Austin still had a little virus, so we went trick-or-treating alone and just went up & down our street. But I will say that this kid LOVES Halloween...what a difference a year makes! He really got into it and enjoyed going up and saying trick-or-treat & getting to pick out his candy.

A little story from practicing for the big event~

Me: Now Austin, what do you say when you go to the door?

Austin: Trick or Treat

Me: And after they give you candy, what do you say?

Austin: More?

:)

Our pirate! Aye Matey!

Austin & Daddy

With Mommy

Austin's friend, Addy (our next door neighbor), was also a pirate. Can you tell he was distracted?

Making our first stop

He didn't want to take the time for more pictures

Walking as fast as he could to the next house!

Walking with Daddy

Granna (my Aunt Adeline) & Gigi (my mom)

Love that a lot of people in our neighborhood sit outside to pass out candy

Me & Shane

This was a fun group :)

Checking out his loot

Our Mickey Mouse pumpkin this year- kudos to Shane!

Amber's Surprise Birthday Party

On Saturday night Shane & I got dressed up and went to a surprise birthday party for my dear friend, Amber! Her sweet hubby, Josh, had planned the entire party! She was SO surprised when she arrived at La Hacienda Ranch & realized her friends were there to celebrate! Kudos to Josh- well done! I have a lot of pics, but I'll only post a few~

Amber & Josh

Happy 35th friend!

Me & Shane

Me & Amber

All the girls

My girlfriends from the pool this summer (Tonya, Me, Sara, Amber)

And to top off the evening, the Rangers won their game & advanced to the WORLD SERIES!!

Evie comes to sleep over!

This weekend Mat & Shanna had a church retreat to attend, so Evie spent Friday and part of Saturday with us! Austin was SO excited that Evie was going to be coming over AND spending the night- his first "sleep over."

Evie arrived on Friday afternoon & we played for a while before eating Chick-fil-A for dinner. Afterwards I took them on a wagon ride around the subdivision until Shane came home! They loved taking a bath together & did great at bed time. We put Evie on an air mattress in the play room, and she only was sad for a few minutes (missing mommy & daddy.)

Evie wanted to put on Austin's apron to "cook", so Austin wanted to put on mine :)

On Saturday we woke up & had breakfast before heading out to run a few errands. Next we headed to the park & then to a birthday party for Austin's friend, Jack! The party was Toy Story theme- and my friend, Joanna, did a great job with it! The kids enjoyed playing on the bounce houses & eating lots of yummy food (pizza, popcorn, cookie cake!) When the party was over we ran a few more errands and then came home to meet Mat & Shanna. We had a great weekend with Evie & can't wait for her to sleep over again soon!

Watching cartoons while the biscuits cook (Austin looks SO big in this picture!)

Evie

This is the best picture I could get of them together at the park- busy, busy

Evie in the tunnel

PARTY TIME!

Jumping in the bounce house

Eating popcorn

Going down the slide- Evie was NOT excited at first, but loved it after a little coercion from Aunt Whitney

All by herself!

Of course Austin loved it, as usual!

Decorating pumpkins

This weekend we met Mat, Shanna & Evie at Calloway Nursery for some fall fun! They had pumpkin decorating, planting seeds, bounce house, popcorn, etc for the kids!

Decorating pumpkins

Planting seeds

Checking out the plants

Bounce house!!

I thought these pumpkins were adorable... but not worth spending $20 on.

Love this picture- it was not posed, just happen to have my camera and snap a shot when it happened.

Photo shoot!

Hiding their eyes from Mat... who was tickling them!

The Duszas

The Lumpkins

Time to leave- so sweet

Evie rode with us- which they both thought was so fun!

A fun day- can't wait to enjoy in more fun fall activities! This is my favorite time of the year!

Finished pumpkin

So proud of the sprouting seeds!