Sunday, November 17, 2013

Autumn Leaves

At our house there is a gorgeous maple tree. Right now the leaves are a beautiful mix of orange and yellow.

I started raking them up last weekend and on Monday Arya got to play in them.









On a side note: our neighbor was nice enough to save me all the raking by using his leaf blower to get them into one pile this week. While bagging them up my wedding ring fell off! We had to borrow a metal detector from Grandpa Mike to find it!

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Pumpkin

This year we decided to do a pumpkin a little different. Instead of carving, we got push-ins. And of course, like her costume- her pumpkin was Minnie Mouse.





 

 Posing

This is how it looks when Arya is told to smile for a picture.

Bonus: The best part of Halloween- The Candy!

Halloween

This was Arya's 3rd Halloween and the first time she got a say in what she was going to dress up as. She chose Minnie Mouse. This was also her first time to go Trick-or-Treating.
Last year we hosted a Halloween party and after the great one this year have decided to make it an annual event.
Before we went trick-or-treating we were finishing up getting ready for the party. Every time rang the bell, Arya would run to the door. She'd say "More friends!" Open the door and say "Hi guys!" When they held out their bags and said "Trick-or-Treat" Arya said it back to them. As they left she'd go "Bye guys!" It was adorable.
Daddy and Mommy dressed up as Westley/The Dread Pirate Roberts and Buttercup from The Princess Bride. We said that Arya was an ROUS (Rodent of Unusual Size) from the movie because Minnie Mouse is a rodent and not a the size of a usual one.
Arya will not being wearing her Minnie ears in any of these pictures. She refused to keep them on.


Obviously, Arya was thirsty more than into taking her picture with Mommy.

Party Set Up:
(we don't have picture of even half of the decorations)



Party time:
Dorothy (Jenny) and the Scarecrow (Schylar) skipping down the Yellow Brick Road. Schylar won best costume. 
 Arya getting a check up from Nurse Clenisha.

 Eric, Ethan, Kara, and Twan had a whole story line they acted out in pictures.

 Gambit (Johnnie) and a Cowboy (Twan). They are brothers. And I don't know what Twan as against Elvis.
 Elvis getting some love from Sailor Jupiter (Jess) and Dorothy (Jenny).