Halloween

Halloween is fun with kids, that's all there is to it. I love seeing them in their costumes and watching their faces light up when they go trick or treating.

My mom and Dad were able to come for a few days in October and the girls got to make pumpkin sugar cookies with Grandma! They were in heaven!

The Friday before Halloween Julianne's preschool had a party, so all of us went to it. 

 Our friends the Lee's were there.

 Then the annual trunk or treat!

All of us supporting our Red Sox.

The pumpkin carving. Julianne has the craziest faces lately. Brinley is holding a sign that says "Julianne and Brinley love Jack-o-lanterns."

Brinley at her school parade.

 My Beautiful Alice! This was my Alice costume when I was here age.

Here is my Sassy Rapunzel. I told her to smile and this is what she did....

and this....

and this....

and this....

Check out the shoes. They go everywhere with us!

As tradition, for all my babies thus far, Winnie the Pooh for the first Halloween.

Such a sweet boy!

Also in October McKay got to watch his first World Series with Dad! As luck would have it, it got to be the Red Sox! And they WON!!!!!! 

Chicago!

At the end of September Greg and I had our first get away in years! We went to Chicago and had a blast!

It was so much fun just being together the two of us. Don't get me wrong, we love taking our kids places, and believe me we do, but it was so nice not having to plan so much. We just got to do whatever we wanted, when we wanted.

On the train, going to the city.

The beautiful skyline. I must say for being such a huge city, it is very clean.

 The famous fountain, that I can't remember the name of.

 Millennial Park

We walked and walked and walked some more! We saw a little bit of everything. Luckily the weather was perfect!

In the middle of the day, we went to a White Sox game to see Greg's good friend Matt play. It was so good to see him again, it had been a while.

We didn't stay the whole game, because we still had a lot we wanted to do. After we left, we went straight to Navy Pier.

We went on the Farris Wheel

 The skyline is beautiful at night!

The next day, before we headed home, we went and got the famous Chicago style pizza at Giordano's

 It takes 40 mins for them to bring it to you, (another reason we were happy not to have our kids with us) but it was well worth the wait!!!

What a fun trip we had! I can't wait to go another one, hopefully soon!
A BIG thank you, thank you to Grandma Carole for watching the three kids all by herself. She is so great and the kids had a ball with her!

Our farewell to summer!

A few months ago we said goodbye to our complex' swimming pool. We had a great three summers spent there.
When we first moved here, Brinley wouldn't even put her head under the water but all that changed this past summer.
Greg taught her how to swim all by herself and now she is a little fish! She jumps, dives, swims in the deep end and loves it!

 Julianne and Andrew

Julianne would sometimes get in :)

This year McKay and I just sat and watched!

 In early September a bunch of us went camping. Well, unfortunately Julianne got sick the day we were suppose to leave, so just Greg and Brinley just went.
We were so sad that all of us could not go, but they sure had fun!
Brinley got to even ride a horse! Apparently  they had nice neighbors.

 The tent!

 Cynthia, Diana, Marie, Michael and Daniel

 Andrew, Anna, Brinley and Sam

One nice day, while the bigger kids were at school, the younger kids had a picnic outside.

 Such good friends!