So cute it's spooky...

We all had a great Halloween this year! Our trick or treat was on Thursday, so we celebrated then. Thank goodness too, because Thursday was beautiful and today is very cold and rainy.

We carved pumpkins in the afternoon. Will didn't want anything to do with the guts and would only use a spoon. Ella dove right in and wanted to eat it!





Will and Nan with the wax lips.

Will was a golfer, looking seriously Scottish.


Ella was a chocolate cupcake with pink frosting!


Will and Aunt Amy, who brought some of Will's favorite presents, balloons and blueberries. And spiced rum and apple cider for mom and dad!!!

Happy Halloween from our pumpkin patch to yours!

Teach Well, B'More

Last weekend we had a mini-reunion with some of our dearest friends from our Teach For America days in Baltimore. Honestly, I can't remember when I've laughed so much or so hard. We are so blessed to have such amazing friends with whom we experienced some of the most challenging and rewarding moments of our lives. We missed the Herickhoff's, Adam, and the Laskowski's but still had a great weekend going to the Farmers' Market, watching football and grilling burgers and brats, and heading out for an evening at a great little local restaurant with way too many margaritas. We miss you all so much and hope you'll come back soon.

Will and his Auntie Nic playing bucket head...

Keith and Will playing bucket head...

Ella and Auntie Stef!

To the market...

The gang at the Farmers' Market.

Will's first warm apple cider.

The girls headed out for dinner.

After an enormous brunch at Pamela's.

Pumpkin Patch

October traditions alive, we took the kiddos to the pumpkin patch with the Roskovenskys and the Powells. It was a blast! The boys had so much fun jumping off the hay stack and Ella loved chewing on it!

Will thinking about going through the tunnel.

Yummy.

The first time Will was quite timid, but after that he was climbing up and jumping off by himself. Our little dare devil.

Dancing Ben!

The Roskovenskys in the pumpkin patch. Tyler trying one out.

Here come the Powells.

Bye Will...

Jennifer trying to get the boys to smile for a picture. She's a great Pre-K teacher and Mommy!

No luck with the smiles, but still cute!

The Guarinos!

Living Treasures Animal Park

A few weekends ago we took the kiddos to a little animal park near where we live. It is much smaller than the zoo so it was really fun to see Will checking out the animals up close. Ella was a trooper, wide-eyed and excited about all the fun things to look at!

Feeding the deer with Dad.

Checking out the tigers with Pap.

Perhaps the funniest picture ever... Will's grin is priceless.

Ella loving the attention!

Whoa, camel.

Hi Duck!!

No such luck...

So my mom and I took advantage of a nice day to try and get a picture of Will and Ella together in the yard. No luck. Seriously, our Christmas card this year is going to be one of Will running in the opposite direction and Ella trying to eat the camera. Our kids are just WAY to busy to sit for pictures. We did however, get a few cute pictures of each of them separately and a few funny ones of them together. Check back soon as we've also gone on a trip to the zoo and a pumpkin patch trip that I'll be adding!