Trunk or Treat

Last night we got to join Matt & Sandy at Hunter Street church's Trunk or Treat. They sure had a great turnout! It was jam-packed with princesses, super-heros, football players, and other characters, and there was a parking-lot-full of trunks to visit, all decorated in a different theme. Georgia was a little intimidated at first, but she only had to hear "You're the cutest pumpkin ever!" a few times and drop the first handful of candy in her bucket to find her true Halloween confidence. Soon she was running ahead (but still w/in arm's reach!) of Sandy & me to get to the next trunk for some treats. And the ones that just had a big bucket of candy open on the ground were in trouble- as the kids came up to them the adults would say "Pick one!", but Georgia doesn't know what ONE means, so she'd quickly grab a handful (it's amazing how much fits in one little hand!) and be reaching for another handful before we could blink! Her favorite trunk, though, was the one with the bubble machine and rock band. She was totally digging it until she got blasted from the fog machine- from then on she partied a little more cautiously!

Thanks for sharing the fun, Phelps!

This little pumpkin loves bubbles!

Pumpkin love for Sandy, Matt & Mommy!

Fall Fun with Grammie & Grandad

We enjoyed a great weekend visit with my mom & dad, and got to do some fun fall activities with them. We went to Boo at the Zoo and they got to see Georgia in her costume, picked pumpkins at a Patch, celebrated our coming baby boy with a shower, watched some football and the baseball playoffs, and got some projects crossed off our to-do list with dad's help!

Enjoy the recaps and photos...

Celebrating Baby Lincoln

Saturday night some sweet family & friends gathered to give us a little shower to celebrate our coming baby boy. We enjoyed yummy lasagna & bread, a great salad, mint tea and delicious berry bread pudding for dessert. It was a great "girls night" of chatting and catching up, talking babies to come, babies here, & babies past, and enjoying each other's company. We got some great presents for little Lincoln, and I was excited at how cute boy clothes can also be after a year & a half of enjoying dresses & bows! I feel truly blessed to have such a great group of women celebrate baby boy, and am thankful to them for their support and love! Thanks especially to Laura, Jenn & Sandy for putting the shower together!!

Laura, me & Lincoln, Sandy

Shireen, Laura, Lindsay, Jenn & baby Christian, me, Sandy, Michelle

Grammie shares a hug with Lincoln & me!

Pumpkin Patch '08

Saturday we went to the Old Baker Farm Pumpkin Patch and had a really great time. I highly recommend this pumpkin patch! We didn't really know what to expect, except pumpkins!, and were very pleased with our fun visit. It's a great deal too- $9 per adult, includes one pumpkin, hayride to the patch, "petting zoo" barn, hay & corn mazes, cotton ball "jumper" and plenty of great photo ops! There's homemade lemonade & kettle korn, barBQ, hot dogs, etc for sale too for a great lunch. Make sure to say Happy Birthday to Old Mr Baker who is celebrating his 100th birthday this week!

Georgia was adorably cute in the pumpkin patch! She wanted to get down in the dirt right away and ran & ran thru the field. She tried to pick up pumpkins of all sizes and wanted no help, of course! We eventually led her to one her size and daddy brought that one home for her.

Once again, she loved the animals. She saw ducks, chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, baby cows and horses. She wasn't too sure about the big horses, but gave them a little pat anyways.

Her favorite part was riding on the little pedal tractors they have all over for the kids to play with. In fact, the only waterworks of the day come when we made her leave the tractor to go pick pumpkins! She thought the tractors were the main attraction!

We had beautiful fall weather for our pumpkin-ing and loved having Grammie & Grandad help us pick out our pumpkins again this year!

Boo at the Zoo

Friday night we all went to Boo at the Zoo. Georgia wore her pumpkin costume and, surprisingly, didn't seem to mind. The zoo was packed with kiddos in costume, which we had just as much fun seeing as the decorations! They had all kinds of activities going on including trick or treating, face painting, a haunted carousel (it went backwards!), spooky train ride and carnival games. (Note: you do have to pay extra to do ride the carousel & train.) Georgia is too little to really appreciate all that, but she loved the petting zoo barn with all the animals. We went thru it twice, taking our time to say hello to the sheep, goats, sleepy pigs and llama. The best part for me was just watching Georgia walk around as a pumpkin, holding Daddy's & Grandad's fingers!

Walking with Grandad & Daddy

Happy Halloween, goat!

Boo at the Zoo with Grammie & Grandad