Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! We had a great time. On Friday, Nate's class all had a Halloween party and dressed up and had a parade during the day. Nate went as a skeleton!

Nate and some of his friends at school....

Nate and Johnny!

(Nate with his mask on and Johnny the dinosaur!)

Now I know that gingerbread houses are for Christmas...but Walmart had this "chocolate" house kit to build, so Nate and I did this on Saturday morning... I let him loose with the icing bad..... lets just say that black icing is a BAD idea :)

Just thought this face was funny!

Nate's costume round 2- we were invited to a Halloween birthday party and subsequent trick or treating over in Bellefonte- we had a fabulous time! Nate has been expressing an interest in Scooby Doo lately (ever since our trip to the beach- thank goodness for portable DVD players!) so I thought I'd try to find a Scooby costume.... so using points I had for Amazon.com, I got this costume for $1.43!! I couldnt' resist...and I didn't want him to get something on it at school, and hence why we went him in the skeleton for school (I picked that up at the consignment sale....).

The 4 youngsters that went trick or treating- the twins are superman and fairy princess! :)

Fun Halloween night shot.... Bellefonte- Curtain street- was super fun to trick or treat on! :) The kids lasted for quite a while- Nate wanted to be carried pretty quickly though..... by the end the kids were having a blast jumping in the piles of leaves....the whole candy thing was getting old :)

We've been doing some Christmas/birthday shopping already- with 75% of our family with Nov/Dec/Jan birthdays as well as Christmas, we're trying to be smart about it.... anyway, the last order came in a BIG box....so big Nate could fit in it!

Where's Nate????

Before the snow...

Forgot to post some pictures from the Way Fruit Farm festival from last weekend.... Hey Mom, this pumpkin is bigger than I am!!

Tractor ride!

Brrrr.... it was COLD!

Sweet Nov Rain....er... Oct snow?

State College officially broke a record for the earliest recorded snow fall. The record has stood since Oct 18th 1901. Well, on Oct 16th, we woke up to 5 inches of snow on the ground!





Tree branches were down everywhere.... it was so weird to see the snow covering green leaves! The leaves hadn't even fully changed around us yet!






Snow family!





Nate's dinosaur hat!

p.s.

Other late August and September moments- Mom turns 30 and Nate is potty trained! WHAHOO!

Where did Sept go?

Wow- almost October.... I can't believe that September went by so fast! We waited to take our summer vacation until the second week in September, so the summer seemed quite long for us as we awaited our beach vacation! We went down with our neighbors, the Ohlsons, and mutual family friends, the Lawrences. We had a great house in OBX, great weather, great food and great friends! Now, the only bummer was that Nate had a fever for 3 of the 6 days we were there, but when he was feeling well, he had a blast! He slept in a big boy bed (which he has now upgraded to at home as well) and only got out of bed when he wasn't feeling well. Anyway, I could talk forever, but I know you really want to see some pictures! So without further a-do....


Nate's first time on the beach at the ocean!

Sara's first time too!

He wasn't too keen on sand at first....

The group standing around on the beach!

Cutie pie....

Nate climbed into the hamper...haha

Silly Nate!

OK, that's enough pictures.....

Alayna and Sara!

Watching Dora....

Walking at Jockey's ridge....

Hey Nate- this is where Daddy wanted to propose to Mommy, but a storm came and we had to leave the park!

He wasn't feeling too well when we started in the jeep, he didn't want any pictures taken....

Mommy having fun driving the jeep!!!

Wild horse.....

Yes, that's a dragon sleeping on Nate's chest.....

Mommy and Mel being silly....

Grinning on the beach!

We made a stop on the way home- checked out the home of the monster truck "Grave Digger"....

Hiking, Jello and playing with Neighbors....

Hi All- Just a couple of pictures to share. Not much going on lately, just staying cool!

Enjoy some of the pictures!

Daddy took Nate hiking on a Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago....

Mommy and Nate made jello jigglers!

We watched the Ohlson girls last night and the kids had a blast!

Take a walk with the T's (neighbors- they walk most evenings, and Nate likes to walk down the street with them, so we all joined in!)

Al giving a silly pose! On our way to look at the goats!

N and Al looking in the stream

On the way home...

Al grabbed Nate's hand on her own! Super cute....It will be fun to show them these when they are older!