Noah's Park

Avondale Park has been renovated and is finally open for use. The kids love it! It's across the street from Noah's house so the kids call it Noah's park.

Noah, Carter & Audrey spent a lot of time sitting on the rocks watching the stream of water.

My monkeys hanging on the equipment

Audrey & Noah are always quite the pair when they're together. They have the same high level of energy and need to run :)

Trick or treat

Carter helped me make a Halloween themed dinner before heading out to trick or treat. Here he is wrapping up a mummy dog. As always, he did a great job.

Carter thought it was so fun to have a Halloween dinner. He has a mummy dog, homemade mac & cheese brains and green beans (not creative but the kids needed a veggie). He's drinking blood (cherry pomegranate crystal light) with an eyeball floating in it out of his skeleton cup.

Audrey saw me taking Carter's picture and decided to come sit down

I managed to get a picture of all three of them in costume. It's not the best picture of Sasha in her costume but at least she cooperated to get this one.

My storm trooper and princess Belle

Taking a quick break. The kids had a blast trick or treating. It's fun to see how much they enjoy seeing all the decorations. The bonus was that Chuck was able to come with us for the first time. The first year I took Carter Chuck was in the hospital with pneumonia and last year he was on-call.

School parties

Halloween day the kids had parties at school. Carter also had a parade in the gym.

It was fun to see all the kids in their costumes. I was surprised at the variety too.

After the parade Carter had his party in his classroom. They got all sorts of Halloween themed treats, craft and games. Carter got the blue ribbon for pin the eyes on the jack-o-lantern.

Class picture

After Carter's party was over it was time for Audrey's to start. I'm always amazed to see this many 2 year olds sitting so nice and quiet. They are getting ready to bless their food.

Digging into all her goodies

Showing me her helping hand she made earlier that morning

carving pumpkins

The day before Halloween we carved pumpkins.

Carter was real helpful this year. He scooped out one of the pumpkins all by himself and did a real good job. He also helped copy the patterns onto the pumpkins.

Audrey even got into scooping the seeds out. It wasn't long before she moved on though.

They decided to carve Audrey's baby pumpkins by themselves. Carter got the stem off and then they just cut a bunch of holes in it :)

Carter with his R2D2 and Stormtrooper pumpkins
Chuck carved those

Audrey with her Belle pumpkin
I carved this one

Our pumpkins all lit up

Sprinkle for baby Amelia

A couple of weekends ago we had a Halloween themed sprinkle for Ashley. We had a good time and she got some nice things for baby Amelia. We can't wait to meet her in just a couple more weeks.

The spread of goodies and adorable pumpkin diaper cake made by Laura. Laura and Meredith did a great job preparing all the tasty treats.

Group shot of the kiddos in costume. They were all in a good mood and played so well together.Pumpkin paintingThe mommies. I didn't remember to get a picture of the adults until Kate had already left. Carter took this picture for us.

Afterward, we walked over to Avondale park to let the kids run off some of the sugar they consumed. They had a blast trying out all the new play sets.

They had some sort of antique car show going on. The kids wanted to pose by this car because it reminded them of Grandpa's corvette or as Carter calls it, "Grandpa's red car."

Girls day

The mornings that Audrey has ballet are our girls days. Carter had almost 3 years of just me and him time. Now that he's in kindergarten it's nice to have some alone time with Audrey.

After ballet we usually run errands together. I love that she already likes to go shopping with Mommy! Then it's time to grab some lunch. Her favorite lately is getting soup from Panera.

There was a sweet lady that saw me taking Audrey's picture and offered to take one of the both of us. Gotta love Audrey's serious face. She doesn't like to smile for strangers.

She saw people getting pink smoothies at Panera and kept asking for a pink drink. This girl loves all things pink! Since she ate her soup well I treated her to a pink milkshake on our way to the park.

Sasha love

The kids continue to love, play with, harass, spoil, etc. Sasha. It's so funny to watch Carter and Sasha kung fu fight each other. I have yet to catch it on video or get a picture of it.

She's been listening to Carter more. The only commands she'll do for him are sit and shake but it's an improvement from ignoring him.

She still ignores Audrey :)