Our Fall Fun

I can't believe it's already December! November literally flew by.  We are right smack in the middle of holiday fun and traditions, but I thought I'd share some of our fall fun. 

Warning... picture overload here! 

Kate had her fall party at school. 

We joined some friends at a fall event at the Webster Groves Firehouse. 

Later that day, we went to Eckert's for apple picking, 

Jack had bike day at preschool (inside because it was raining like crazy that day). 

Jack also had a field trip to the firehouse. 

Then, we went to a fall festival at the firehouse the next week with friends. Ha! Apparently, we love the firehouse. 

We went to Purina Farms Haunted Hayloft.  Can you tell that we like to get a lot of use out of our holiday wear?? :) 

Kate and I painted pumpkins at Lucky's Market while Mark and Jack were at a Dad's night at preschool. 

We went to The Magic House Halloween party with friends. 

We carved pumpkins. 

We went to a Halloween event at our local park. 

We went to Trunk or Treat at Kate's school. 

Kate went to a fun Halloween party with her friends. 

We had a little Halloween dinner one night with "spooky" food. 

We had WAY too much fun with this mask.  I couldn't resist it.  Best $10 I've spent in a long time. 

Jack had his Halloween preschool party. 

We went to Fright Fest at Six Flags. Jack skipped out because he got way too freaked out the first time we went. We stayed a little too long at night and Kate got majorly scared.  The daytime was fun, though! 

We helped Mimi rake up a TON of leaves. 

Jack had a Thanksgiving Feast at school.

We made some Thanksgiving crafts. 

We did our annual Black Friday Family Fun Day! 

We took the kids to a fun park and then surprised them by driving to Columbia to go to a place called Bonkers that we went to awhile back.  They had a blast and were shocked that we would drive that far just to go there.  It was a fun little adventure. 

After Columbia, we drove back and went to one of our favorite parks for a drive through Christmas light display.  

Fall was fun, fun, fun, but we are SOOOO excited for Christmas!! 

Kate's Bake Shoppe Birthday Party

Kate and I decided on a Bake Shoppe theme for her birthday party with her friends.  It was such a cute theme for a bunch of little girls.  

We invited her classmates and the girls from her Daisy troop.  Such a fun group of girls.  

Papa made this awesome frame for the awning and then we covered it with a sheet we already had and scalloped the edges.  I love how it turned out! 

We baked and iced a cake for each girl to decorate.   

Cake decorations ready to go! We also had bags of icing for them to pipe on.  They loved that part! 

Mark made these chef hats out of cardstock and tissue paper.  So cute and super cheap! 

Girly snacks

I made all the girls these aprons out of bandanas! I would have never thought to do that. Thank goodness for the Internet and Pinterest! 

 Cutting out little cupcakes

Putting on aprons and chef hats

Half of the girls decorated cakes while the other half played Bake Shoppe Bingo.  It worked out perfectly! 

The girls were all super concentrated as they worked to decorate their cakes.  

Mark took a picture of each girl with her decorated cake on the cake stand. 

Look at all of those pretty cakes! 

Mark told them to go crazy... and they did! 

We played a fun cake walk game after they decorated cakes.  They walked around on numbers to music and when the music stopped, they stopped on a number.  I chose a number and that person (instead of winning a cake like in a traditional cake walk) got to choose a dance move for everyone to do.  It was hilarious!! Some of the girls (like my own) are crazy and some are so shy.  

After the game, we had snacks and drinks.  

Kate opened presents.  She got so many great things. 

We sung "Happy Birthday" and the girls ate cupcakes. 

The cakes got boxed up for the girls to take home. 

This was such a fun party.  I had a lot of moms text me and tell me how much fun their daughter had, so I'd say it was a success!  Kate had a blast with her friends, too.   I love watching all of them together.