Fall Fun and Halloween

So get ready for picture overload.  Here is more of our October.  We went to Windmill Farms with Kali's preschool and went on our traditional Halloween tractor ride and got our pumpkins.  It is always so much fun, they have the hugest mud puddles that you go through and the kids love it.

See the huge mud puddle? 

Kali's preschool class.

I don't know how this got out of order, but here is another picture of the mud.

Pumpkin Carving

Once again I don't know how this got out of order, but here is Kali's finished pumpkin at night.

Bristol's pumpkin.  She drew the picture on the pumpkin of what she wanted and then Nate carved it out, with only minor changes.

Getting ready to trick or treat with the neighbors.  Here they have a scheduled time for trick or treating, 6-8pm.  So we leave before it is dark which is nice because it is also warmer.

Note the stem on top of Gwyn's head.  I have a knit hat for her that is a pumpkin hat, but unless it was really cold out she wouldn't leave it on her head.  I had a feeling this would be the case and so I whipped up a quick stem out of felt.  I just really wanted her to have a stem.

Nashville Trip

Bristol had a week off from school for a Fall Break so we took advantage of it and tried to find somewhere with in driving distance that we had never been to and that would be warmer than home.  We came upon the destination of Nashville, TN.  Neither Nate or I are huge country music fans, but hey we are fans of vacations.  It was nice, my mom and dad came out and met us there.  We went to the zoo, the Grand Ole Opry Hotel, went on a boat ride on the river to music and dined on delicious food, the girls swam a bunch, and best of all we just took it easy and enjoyed ourselves.  Here are some pictures of the adventure.

The Zoo

Just eating some lunch.

Gwyn getting her walking in for the day.

 Grand Ole Opry Hotel

Swimming at the condo

They cracked me up with their boots and jackets on.  It was nice and warm the beginning of the week, but then it cooled down.  Luckily there was an indoor pool too, they just had to get a little bundled up for the walk.

Nashville Temple

We stopped at Mammoth Caves on the way home which is the countries largest cave, but true to form I left my camera in the car.  I guess we will have to go back and visit another time.

Kali Turns 4

I can't believe how fast the time flies, but yes my darling little girl is now four.  Unfortunately I did not get this posted sooner.  The day after Kali's birthday we went on vacation for almost a week and then since we have been home I have been trying to catch up with the house and not to mention suffering from a head cold and crazy back pain that was pinching my nerve and making my left arm tingle and ache.  I'm finally on the mend, not so much cold wise, but thought I should post some pictures before Bristol's birthday comes.

On Kali's birthday we started by having a primary program practice and then we went to the mall where we met Nate (he was on-call working that day and had a little time off) where Kali got her ears pierced.  She had been asking for a month or so and told me she wanted to get them pierced on her birthday.  So I agreed.  We then were able to head home and open some presents since Nate was off to the hospital again.  Since we didn't know when he would be home again that day we thought we would open presents while he was there.  Then Kali chose to have dinner at McDonald's.  The girls and I headed there and then I called Nate on our way home and he was able to make it home yet again for a half an hour or so to have cake.  He left once again to the hospital.  We invited over some neighbor friends to enjoy the cake with us.  All in all it was a busy, but fun day.  Then after the girls went to bed it was a mad dash to get us all packed up for our vacation

Kali with her cake.  Sorry all of these pictures are so blurry, I had forgotten to turn our flash back on our camera.

Here is Kali showing off her new earrings.  She didn't cry or anything, she was such a big girl.

Waiting for her presents.

The neighbor girls and our friend Samantha.

Her First Steps

So Gwyn has finally taken a few steps here and there.  I am going to use the same excuse that my mom says, "It must be hard to walk on such little feet."  Seriously she has tiny feet.  She is still in 0-3 month size shoes, plus none of our other girls were early walkers.

We did our best to try to capture it on film.  She wasn't being the most cooperative this particular evening, but hey at least we got it.

I took these the other day too.  I just think she looks like such a big girl in these photos.