halloween

We had a free night last week so we carved our pumpkins.  

The kids needed very little, if any, assistance from us this this year.

They came up with their designs on their own and hand drew them this year rather than using a template.

Festive treats and The Great Pumpkin are carving night traditions. 

Emmy went to a Halloween party on Saturday night with her gym friends. 

The kids could dress up for youth group on Sunday night so Bryce dressed like our youth minister. 

Jason got a new suit this year!  Of course he wore it to work today!

I realized today that this is the 4th Halloween that Emmy has worn this shirt!  I think it's the last year for it.

We have done trunk or treat at church every year on Halloween since Bryce was born.  Our kids have never gone door to door trick or treating and have always wanted to so we figured we'd do it this year before they (Bryce especially) age out.  

Instead of staying in our neighborhood we went over to a friend's house who host a bunch of families each year.  I got creative and brought some themed treats!

Yoda and a baseball player.  

Our festive family!

Bryce has made some great friends in middle school.  Also dressing as a baseball player is cheap and easy at this age!

Checking out the loot!

We all had a great time! 

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School has pretty much gotten back to normal this year.  I was excited to bring Emmy lunch at school for the first time since second grade.  This will probably be the last year for it!

This week was spirit week at Bryce's school.  Each day was a candy theme.  Bryce and his baseball buddies dressed up as triplets for 3 musketeers day!

I went on a walk through the neighborhood where Emmy has piano lessons this week during her lesson.  It was a little chilly, but it was pretty!

Bryce went to camp this weekend for a youth retreat for church.  It looks and sounds like he had a great time!

Emmy had an in-house (get the jitters out) meet on Saturday to kick off the season.  This year is extra fun because she got to pick out her own floor music and have a routine choreographed just for her.  It's a super cute routine and she took home first place in floor at the meet!

It's going to be a great season!

halfway through october, what?1?

Picture day was this week!

They cleaned up well.

EmmY and her reading buddy.

My girlfriends and I had a Hocus Pocus 2 party planned for Friday.  I'm not a huge fan and had only seen the first one in recent years, but I love a good theme so I went all out with a shirt and earrings!

And I made a few fall themed treats.  

This is about the extent of my spookiness!

We saw tons of fun Sanderson Sisters themed charcuterie boards but we kept ours simple. 

A few of us got matching shirts!

Bryce had his last baseball games of the season on Sunday.  Apparently eye black isn't just for football anymore. 

Emmy made some pumpkin white chocolate chip muffins today.  They smelled and tasted delicious!

I can't even believe we're halfway through October already!

fall fun

I don't have many pictures from the last couple of weeks, but here's a quick recap!

We had to make a trip out to the State Fair while it was in town.  Emmy needed a giant turkey leg and we had to see how Jason did in the sunflower competition this year.  He placed 1st for best quality and 2nd for largest head.  Not too bad!

Fall came in with a vengeance this year and I'm not ready for it.  I'd take 80 with a little humidity all year rather than these cooler (feels cold) temperatures. 

Thig guy doesn't get a lot of screen time, but he's so cute!

Emmy and I made our favorite fall treats this week.

We went to Kelly and Dave's on Saturday for a family reunion for Jason's mom's side of the family.

It was a great turnout, and we were even missing almost as many as were there!