First Snow

We woke up this morning to a blanket of white snow on the ground, and it is continuing to snow even as we speak! Of course the kids and I were suppose to go to our MOPS groups, but when Brandon called nearly 25 minutes into his morning commute and told me NOT to go because traffic was crazy and it was super slick, I decided to stay at home and have a snow day with our little loves. I hate that we missed our group, but I think the right decision was made. Plus the kids had a blast playing in the snow! Winter here we come! :)

Halloween

This year leading up to Halloween I think Marek asked nearly every day if it was time for trick-or-treating! So, when he woke up yesterday and immediately asked if he could finally go trick-or-treating it was fun to tell him "yes"! After breakfast the kiddos got on their costumes, Marek was the Hulk and McKenna was a cupcake, and we headed over to daddy's work to drop off some cupcakes. All of Brandon's co-workers oohed and awed over how adorable the kiddos were in their costumes...it was really cute. After that we headed to Papa Murphy's to pick up our pumpkin pizza for lunch. When naps were over our trick-or-treating entourage showed up (Nana, Grandma Barbara, and Aunt Susan). Hulk and little miss cupcake did so great trick-or-treating this year! It was so fun to see them so excited to go to each new house. I don't know if there is anything cuter than little kids in costumes...especially ours! :) Happy Halloween!

 Hulk and the cutest cupcake ever!

 Just sitting on some pumpkins

 Silly

 Just answering some emails at daddy's work:)

 Showing off their pumpkin pizza

 Love that Brandon is wearing a hulk mask too!

 Getting her first treat from our neighbors

 Trick-or-treat

 Loving on Nana

 Grandma Barbara and Aunt Susan posing with Marek

 McKenna loves dogs...I think she got more excited to pet peoples dogs then to actually get candy!

Nana and Marek passed out candy to all of our trick-or-treaters

Pumpkin Carving

I honestly can't believe that Halloween is only a little over a week away! October has BLOWN by! Last night after dinner we randomly decided to carve our pumpkins. Maybe Marek begging us to do it had some affect. McKenna and I worked on hers while Brandon and Marek made one together too! This year was especially fun because both kids really wanted to get in there and help. We decided on a cat for McKenna, mainly because she is obsessed with cats. And Marek and Brandon went for a scary Frankenstein face. I think they both turned out really good!

 Posing with his pumpkin

 The first cut

 Nice face McKenna

 Silly girl

 Look at all of those pumpkin guts

 Helping carve his pumpkin :)

 The finished pumpkins

 Family pose

The pumpkins in the dark

Family and Green Bluff

My cousin Amy, her son Conner, and my Aunt Janet came up from Seattle this weekend for a fun  visit! It was so cute to see little Conner (22 months) interact and play with Marek and McKenna! He is so ridiculously cute and such sweet little guy! The Highlight of the weekend was taking the kids up to Green Bluff! We went to Siemers and the kids got to go on two train rides, a big blow up slide, and they even got to ride little ponies and go through a petting zoo! It was a lot of fun! I'm so glad we were able to spend time with family! Thanks for coming Amy, Conner, and Janet!!!

 Look at that adorable face

 Love this picture of my Grandma laughing with Conner

 Us at Green Bluff

 Brandon and the kids on the train ride

 McKenna and me cuddling on the train

 More cuddling with Nana on the train ride

 Love that tongue

 Little Conner in the Tot Train

 Marek on the Tot Train wearing daddy's hat

 McKenna and I after we went down the GIANT blow up slide

 Getting a wheel barrow ride from daddy

 Conner picking out his pumpkin

 So cute!

 McKenna LOVED riding her pony!

 Conner wasn't so sure about it! :)

 Marek enjoyed his ride

 McKenna petting a chicken

 And petting a baby deer

 Everyone together

 Conner didn't want to look at the camera

How cute are they