Monday, November 21, 2011

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We had another wonderful Halloween party at our house this year!  The kids played games like pumpkin bowling, candy corn toss and ghost donuts before heading out to trick-or-treat.  Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate and we ended up with soggy kids!  Hope your Halloween was happy!  
 pumpkin bowling
 ghost donuts
 apparently its good!
she ate the whole thing!
 whose ready to go trick-or-treating?  "Meeee!"
 super cute princess and duck
drenched but having fun!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Preschool and Terry

Juliann is LOVING preschool!  The week before Halloween has been her favorite so far.  She had a Halloween parade and party at school and to top it all off, she was able to bring home Terry the Turtle, her classroom mascot.
 digging in
 she ate the WHOLE thing!
goofing off with her teacher, Mrs. Aylor
Jules was line leader for her parade

Terry was a busy turtle while he was with us.  He enjoyed eating his first Reese Cup Blizzard while watching the trains in Ashland, went to the Children's Museum in Short Pump, tagged along to a Halloween party at a friends, went to trunk-or-treat at at the church where Jules goes to preschool, and attended our Halloween party before heading out trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.  Jules loved having Terry visiting with us and can't wait until he comes home with her again.   
 Terry helped cook dinner
 Terry checking out the trains
Riding the train at CMOR
 Trunk-or-Treating with Terry
 Quack, Quack!

Halloween post to come tomorrow!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Jack-O-Lanterns

We carved our pumpkins almost a week before Halloween and luckily they all made it to the big day!  Jules had a lot of fun this year helping David but Josie was not a fan of the pumpkin guts.  Take a look at our family carving projects:

 digging in
 Let me try...
"NO, NO, NO, EW!"
 Love these two!
helping Daddy carve

Unfortunately, we didn't get any final product pictures!  But we had a great time in the process.  :)


Monday, November 14, 2011

Apple Picking X2

We obviously didn't get enough apples when we went in September so we headed back to Carter's Mountain before a UVa football game to pick some more.  This time the pink ladies were out and they were DELICIOUS!  It was also crazy busy!  We waited in a line of cars just to get up the mountain and the line for apple donuts was even worse.  They were totally worth the wait though.  :)
 This picture doesn't do the traffic situation justice!

We joined the Ayers family on our second trip to the orchard and David's mom, who had to get her car fixed in Charlottesville came with us as well.
 beautiful view!
Jules and her BFF

Most of the apples had been picked on the low branches so we had to get creative to get some of the really pink ones.  What started off as Jules standing on David's shoulders turned into me breaking out some old cheerleading moves and getting on David's shoulders.  Totally worth it though because we got some super yummy apples.  :)
 Jules getting a lift from daddy
 Enjoying a free tasting!
 YUM!
 All the kiddos
Trying to reach the really pink apples

After picking apples and eating some lunch, we headed over to a tailgate with David's Aunt, Uncle and Cousins before the UVa football game.  Although UVa didn't win, we had another fun and beautiful day in C'ville!
 Josie tailgating
 Group shot
Jules and Susan
Someone had a little too much fun!

Friday, November 4, 2011

Pumpkin Picking

We took the kids to the Ashland Berry Farm again this year to pick pumpkins with the Ayers Family.  The weather was BEAUTIFUL and it was a great weekend to go and pick out pumpkins.  Everyone in Hanover County must have agreed with us because the place was packed!  After about an hour wait we enjoyed a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch.  It took a while for everyone to find a "perfect" pumpkin but we came home with 5 great looking pumpkins.  Thanks to David for doing the all you can carry again this year!  Afterwards we enjoyed a picnic lunch and some yummy apple donuts.  Another fun weekend in the books!

 BFF's

 Drumming
 Big girl!

 I love these girls!

 Jules was tired and needed a lift.
 10 pumpkins-all you can carry for $20. Go Daddy!