Happy Halloween!

Halloween Week at our house. 

Monday- making pumpkin sugar cookies with Livy and Eli.

Wednesday: Church "trunk or treat" party. Wheeler dressed up as Russell from the movie UP. We've been shoving the movie down his throat for the past month trying to get him psyched up to be Russell for Halloween... and it seemed to work. The scouts uniform is actually Matt's from when he was a little boy. But Wheeler's favorite part was definitely the balloons and his Wilderness Explorer flag.  (and of course the candy!)

Friday: Halloween party at the Weights. They hosted such a great party! There were awesome decorations, yummy themed food, pin the nose on the pumpkin, Halloween scavenger hunt, and cute pumpkin crafts. Wheeler had a blast. Thanks Laura and Rob!

Sunday: Pumpkin carving with the Nuttalls. Definitely a dad's job... Wheeler supervised, but wasn't quite brave enough to touch the pumpkin guts this year. 

Halloween night: Trick or Treating with Livy and Toby.(She was Belle and he was the beast. Such great home-made costumes!) Our Neighborhood shuts off a section of street for the little kids to walk up and down and get their candy. Here is a short clip of our trick or treating fun.

And I couldn't resist adding this picture of Wheeler on Halloween last year. Man time sure flies. My little boy is growing up so fast! 

Happy Halloween!

Autumn

I love the fall. It is definitely my favorite time of the year. There is so much anticipation and excitement that for me stems back to starting a new grade at school. The new classes, teachers, schedules, school supply's and back to school clothes.  And now as an adult I feel the same excitement anticipating the change in weather... bring on hoodies and jeans, and the waiting for the big holiday season to hit... making plans for Halloween costumes, 2 Thanksgiving dinners (Canadian and American of course), and starting to think about Christmas plans! I Love it!

Our Autumn so far has included a few additional plans. At the beginning of the month one of my oldest and dearest friends Lindsay came to Houston for an entire week while her husband was here for work! Such a treat, it has been way too long since college, which is the last time I spent more than a few hours visiting with Lindsay. Catching up was so fun, and watching our kids play together at the same age as we were when we met and became friends was equally nostalgic and made me feel old. Lindsay blogged about our visit better than I could, so if you are interested you can read about all our fun here. Thanks Linds! Great week!  (here are 2 pics I stole off her blog, I was too lazy to take my own!)

The following week we made a trip back home to Southern Alberta because my Grandma Leavitt passed away. It was a beautiful funeral, she would have been pleased. And despite the circumstances it was really nice to be back home and get to visit with all of my Leavitt cousins and swap stories and memories at Grandma's house. The fall up in Canada was luckily still hanging on by a thread when we got there. I don't remember the last time I have even seen a Canadian Autumn, and I forgot how pretty the tree's are. We took the time to wander around the river bottom in Lethbridge and take a few family pictures. Here are some of my favorites.

Happy Autumn to everyone! And a special happy 30th birthday wish to Matt this past month... who only gets more handsome, hilarious, and wonderful every year he ages. 

Self photo shoot.

I turned on my camera today and found that Wheeler had done a little self photo shoot on the sly. Here are some of his pictures. He makes me laugh.

yep, he definitely has his Dad's nose... which on the bright side, at least it is symmetrical.