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!! 

Not Ready for Winter

It's cold here.  Really cold.

Fall is always so short and then winter just seems to draaaag on.

So, I'm reminiscing about a few weekends ago when the weather was AWESOME and we took a pretty fall drive, had a picnic, found huge leaves on the Katy Trail and just enjoyed being outside.

Boo for the cold weather.

October Happenings

Now that it's almost the end of November (how did THAT happen???), let's go back and recap October.

The month of October is always CRAZY for us!  We cram in as much fall fun as we can.

Added to the fun and craziness of October this year, we went to a friend's wedding in Louisville one weekend and Mark and I went to San Francisco for almost a week (he attended a conference there for work and I got to tag along!).

I was thankful for anything we were able to squeeze in!

We went apple picking at Eckert's.

Jack and I made a trip to The Magic House.

Kate had her fall party at school.

We went to the Louisville Slugger Museum while we were in Louisville for a friend's wedding.

On the way home from Louisville, we took a little detour to go to this amazing park Brad told us about.

While Kate and I were enjoying the scenery and live music, Mark was taking pictures of Jack by a fountain and he walked into it as it shot up. Only Jack.

We went to a fall party at Brad and Vicky's. So fun!!

We went to the Haunted Hayloft at Purina Farms.

Mark and I went to San Francisco!

(Alcatraz)

We carved pumpkins.

We had a rainy Halloween.

And who can forget that we cheered on the Cardinals in the World Series?? Boo for that one.

Props to you if you looked through all those pictures. Some people do weekly photo dumps... mine are monthly. :)