halloween 2015.

We had a wonderful couple weeks full of Halloween festivities.  And I must admit the girls costume combo this year is a favorite for sure. :)

The Big Bad Wolf chasing little Red Riding Hood - OR just trying to take her furry hat off ;).

Our town has a fall Pumpkin Festival - and it's a big deal around here - we all love it!  The kids even get a day off of school for it. :)  It's classic small town cuteness.  The fact that we chose a town that has a fall festival as opposed to a hot summer festival is absolute perfection.

Each year everyone decorates pumpkins that fill the courthouse lawn for a contest.  This year Quinn chose PJ Masks (a new Disney show) - which meant 3 pumpkins!  Here she is with her 3 pumpkins.  (the ones in front of her - not the ones behind her :))

So one of the cons to some of the time surrounding Halloween was that Todd hurt is back.  Fortunately he is on the mend and doing much better, and thankfully it was kind of between festivities.  In between taking care of Daddy, Quinn and I would sneak away each day during Andie's long afternoon nap for Pumpkinfest festivities - craft shows, carnivals, parade, pumpkins...etc.

One of the benefits of Pumpkinfest is that by the time Halloween gets here the pressure is off, not great weather - no big deal- the girls have already been trick or treating downtown and worn their costumes on several occasions.  And that seems to be how it works most years - beautiful weather for pumpkinfest, chilly and rainy for Halloween.  Fortunately Halloween night wasn't too bad this year so we did go trick or treating with the girls and they loved it!

 I mean...so stinkin cute!

Costume info:  Quinn's awesome little red riding hood attire is off of Amazon, and Andie's little Wolf is from Pottery Barn.

 That is Quinn acting scared of the Big ferocious wolf - or maybe singing on Broadway? :)

Quinn also enjoyed a Halloween party at school with a cute costume parade and a Halloween sing.  It was so cute!  Grandma and Grandpa from Florida were in for a few days and were able to catch the cuteness.

A wonderful October full of pumpkins, parties, festival festivities, many trips to pumpkin farms, apple donuts and apple cider slushies, adorable costumes and beautiful weather.

little red and her wolf.

A little sneak peek of our little loves in their Halloween duds. 

It was a beautiful day for some Halloween festivities.
More pics of the most beautiful Little Red Riding Hood and cutest and sweetest big bad wolf around :) to come.

the day we had three cats.

Lucy had no idea, but for a day she had an adopted brother and sister.

Let's start from the beginning.
One lazy Sunday morning the four of us snuggled on the couch and watched the movie Turbo.  After the movie was over Todd headed outside to do some lawn work.  He came to the door and told me to come and then said "all of you come".  So I immediately thought - oh, he must have found a snail or slug or something.
Well when we got outside we found something much furrier and way cuter.
A little black and brown kitten just laying in the driveway.

So we immediately started asking around the neighbors and the farm behind us, no one had cats or a cat that would have had kittens.
I remembered that we had occasionally seen a cat in our yard bordering the tree line, and lightbulb - "Todd, I think we need to check the rest of the bushes.  This kitten didn't come far on it's own, that cat had kittens and there may be more".

It took about 5 seconds of looking before Todd said "Yup, there's another one!" and saw two tiny blue eyes peeking out from the bush.

We didn't find anymore kittens.  As the day went on, and we were playing outside they become a little more comfortable with us and ate some food too.

About 5 seconds after we found them they were each named.
Columbus and Bella.

After the girls were tucked in their beds that night, I came back outside to check on the kitties.  And very quickly I heard a big meow and saw mama cat.  Yay!  I was so excited she was back with her babies.

We kind of hoped they would stick around or visit occasionally to be little mousers for us, but that night mama cat took them somewhere else.

But it was a fun day with three cats...that Lucy will never really know about. :)

a new trick.

the new disappearing food trick :)



More to come from this girl...
Lots of catching up to do as she now is a day shy of 16 months and I haven't posted much!  Like her first steps!...a month ago. oops.

andie time.

Somebody is getting to be such a big girl!

So this year Quinn is going to Preschool 3 days a week for about 3 hours each day.  That means 3 mornings a week it is just me and this little sweetie.  I am cherishing every moment and always recognizing what a special time this is for the two of us.  Quinn and I had more than 3 years of just us time not running around to places and uninterrupted - just time at home, so I very much cherish this time with Andie and try to make sure we have at least one or two mornings a week that we are just that - at home and just playing.  And I give her as many snuggles, squeezes and smooches as I can. :)

twinsies.

It's Thursday so I guess a throwback is appropriate. :)