Trunk or Treat

This year Grace, Lyla and Reesi were all Indians for Halloween. We attended Trunk or Treat at our church like we do every year. Grace and Lyla were both going to take a friend but Grace's friend got sick and couldn't come. Lyla's friend, Grace, did come. Grace (our Grace) hung out with Reesi and the friend that she brought. It was packed and crazy crowded just like it is every year. That kind of crowd and chaos makes me uncomfortable. The kids had fun though. The first picture below is of the girls at one of the "trunks". It was a pirate theme. I think this picture is really funny because of all of the crazy faces everyone is making. No one is really smiling for the picture. The other pictures show a few of the trunks. There was a train that rode kids around the baseball field next to the church and a little putt-putt golf trunk. The big one was a Hollywood scene. They had a red carpet, lights, an announcer and a real limo. The kids would walk the red carpet as they were announced and then they would climb through the limo at the end of the carpet.

Jim and Peggy's 40th Anniversary

Everyone met at Olive Garden to celebrate Jim and Peggy's 40th wedding anniversary. The service was pretty bad but that just gave everyone extra time to visit. Jim gave Peggy a ring and Peggy gave Jim a new grill. Eric made a Blurb photo book of various pictures from the last 40 years. Everyone seemed to enjoy looking through the book. I always think pictures make a great gift. It was a nice night.

Our Campfire

We have no trees in our backyard anymore. Eric had to cut down our last Bradford Pear tree because it kept splitting. He has made the stump into a fire pit for the time being. Here are some pictures of one of our cookouts this fall. The girls love cooking hotdogs and marshmellows over the fire. Joni and Reesi came one night. We cracked up at Reesi roasting her marshmellow. She wouldn't get close enough to even warm up her marshmellow, much less roast it.

Gentry's Farm

I went to Gentry's Farm with Lyla and her class in October. We've been there so many times, but it's still such a great place. I love to take pictures there. I think it would be a great place to have family pictures taken. Anyhoo...it was a good field trip. They did the hay maze, saw the animals, played in the Fruits of the Spirit barn, had a "hay" ride, saw the cows, picked out a pumpkin and had a picnic. The pumpkins were really small this year. Lyla was not happy about that. Then she got mad that she couldn't climb up onto the wagon where the pumpkins were piled up. She had a little melt down but finally got over it. Then after the picnic the kids had a quick game of duck, duck, goose. Another mini-meltdown came due to not getting as many turns as she wanted. Games always end with someone mad, that's why I've never been into sports. ha! Overall, it was a good time and I'm very blessed to be able to go on field trips with my girls. I would be very sad if I was not able to go. The girls absolutely love it when we see them at school too. I don't want to miss any opportunity like that while they still want us there! Here are the many pictures from the trip.

I think it's time to do some fall wardrobe shopping!!! Lyla loves those brown corduroy pants!

Gotta love the pic with a kid diggin' for gold! ha ha I had to include this one!

This is the wagon Lyla wanted to climb in to find a pumpkin.

A Glastonbury Tradition

Every fall Grace and Lyla have a blast jumping in a big leaf pile with our neighbors. We've been blessed to have very friendly neighbors that almost all have girls. They love to play in the street with them after school on days when the weather is nice. Every fall there is always one day where the girls make a big pile of leaves and have a ball jumping in them and throwing them. This year it was in our yard. Our neighbor across the street also has a nice tree in her front yard so the girls carried buckets of leaves from her yard to our yard to make an extra big pile. They worked hard to get the pile as big as they could. We finally had to stop them and tell them to go ahead and jump. I love fall-leaf-pile-jumping pictures. I wished I had gotten a good one of Grace and Lyla together. Maybe next year. The girls in the pictures below from left to right are: Lyla, Reesi, Lola, Emma, Ryan (the only boy), Rachel, Ailey and Grace.