Pumpkin picking and trick-or-treating

Lots of pictures, starting with some from last Monday. We were supposed to go pumpkin picking last Saturday with Matt and Kristin and their kids, as has become our tradition. But we got rained out, so we rescheduled to Monday afternoon. Of course, Matt and I were at work, so it was just Tony and Kristin with Ari and Nick, but they had a fun time.

The place has a little play area for the kids, right outside the corn maze. Ari and Nick loved this little playhouse, even if they were too big for it.



Getting ready to go down the slide. I'm sure she's just blocking the sun from her eyes, but it kind of looks like she's shielding her face from the paparazzi... ha ha.



Tony thought this picture was cool--that's his shadow.



There are a lot of pictures of them in this firetruck...



Ari wanted to get on the very top of the truck. I don't think she succeeded, though.



Hiding from Nick...



Peekaboo!



Tony said he and Kristin were talking, and suddenly realized they couldn't see either of the kids. They peeked in the window, and this is what they saw. Oy, this girl is going to be trouble...



They came home with one large pumpkin and 2 small ones. And we never did get around to carving them. But we at least had them out on our front porch, as a decoration. So that's something.

And now, Halloween. Ari dressed as Cinderella. She already had the dress (a Christmas gift from my mom last year) and since she already has the blonde hair, I figured, why not?



We went trick-or-treating with some friends that we've gone with for the past few years--it's become a tradition now, and it's a lot of fun to walk around in a huge group. Here's Ari and her friend Molly. This picture cracks me up--we didn't tell them to pose that way, but Molly decided to wave and Ari decided to hug her.



You can kind of see what I did with Ari's hair here--I was trying to complete the Cinderella look by putting it up. It kinda sorta worked, but by the end of the night, it was a wreck. Those barrettes look cute, but they do nothing to hold her wispy hair.



And here's the whole crew--Tyler and Julianna in the back, and Izabel (Julianna's sister) and Molly (Tyler's sister) and Ari in the front. Molly had wings that went with her outfit, but she didn't want to wear them, because she wanted to be a princess like all the other girls.



And the 2 Cinderellas...



We had good weather for trick-or-treating... it was windy, but weirdly muggy, so it wasn't all that cold. And the rain held off, too--it drizzled on and off throughout the day, but stayed dry for us at night. We were only out for about an hour and a half, but holy cow, Ari made out like a bandit. And of course you know I'll have to help her eat it. Just one of the many sacrifices of parenthood.

Right now, a bunch of the guys are over, watching football, and I spent a good bit of time making appetizers for them (gotta love those Friday's frozen appetizers), not to mention the brownies I baked beforehand. Now it's about time to get a certain someone into the bathtub and ready for bed, and then it's time for some Me Time.