Halloween and some of November

The girls both went as felines for Halloween. Avery was a Cheetah and Elliot was a "purple cat." We opted to go "reverse Cheetah" for Avery, as finding a black shirt and stretch pants and contact papering on yellow spots was easier than black spots on yellow. As you might imagine, finding purple cat accessories was difficult, so I made Elliot's ears and tail. My theory was that the movie-quality face makeup would make up for the slapdash costuming, smile. 

Pumpkin cheetah, screamer and baby pumpkin with two teeth!

 Yay Leah and Sam! Leah and Sam came to visit us the weekend after Halloween. You can't tell AT ALL, but Leah is seven months pregnant in this picture. So we thought we would take her and her two year old son on a treacherous, 5 mile (maybe not quite, but felt like it) hike.

Steep descent on a wet, slippery trail? No problem, I'll just put my baby in my jacket give you all a hand.

Cousin fun!

This was about 3/4ths of the way into the hike as we realized that the end point was about 5 times farther than we thought. Mike has already left to run back to get the car and meet us at the end of the trail. It was long, but really fun and the kids were good troopers. Sam was so cute, he would keep walking as long as he saw a new puddle to jump in up ahead. As you can see below, the destination was definitely worth the walk.

 Happy Birthday Mike!! This year we made him a football cake (basketball, ping pong and foosball left and then we'll have to branch out into other genres. crown molding cake?!!).

The high school did a production of James and the Giant Peach which was actually really good! The girls both loved it, and the peach punch with ice cream at intermission didn't hurt either.