Halloween weekend 2011

We'll do a little Halloweening tomorrow night ...trick or treat at a few houses on the cul de sac, hand out candy, etc; but for the most part we celebrated this weekend. Barclay and I went to a Boogie Nights party at St. Simon. It was the annual dinner/dance/silent auction and just happened to fall on Halloween weekend this year. We got dressed up, went out without the kids - livin' it up. Then tonight we took the girls over to St. Simon (yes, again) for trunk or treat. We went with our good friends and the kids had the run of the place. They filled up their pumpkin buckets, ate hotdogs, roasted marshmellows and oohed and ahhed at the costumes. Miri even dressed up as a little pumpkin and she looked very...pumpkin :)

Miriam's Baptism

We had the best weekend, but it was one of those that we need an extra day to recover from! On Saturday morning the girls had their last soccer games. It was great b/c mom, Ariana (all the way from California), Betty and Peter were all there to watch and they had their best games yet - each girl got 3 goals and showed so much improvement. Barclay was at the track having a "racing experience" at the same time as the games. He got to race a real nascar. Mom spent the night so we got to hang out with her all day and play with a bunch of Lily's birthday presents. She got a couple of board games, so we did those about a million times each :) Ari and her friend came over on Saturday night too so we could squeeze in some extra time with her before she went back to California. The girls love seeing their Aunt Ari! Then on Sunday Miriam was baptized. It was such a nice private ceremony. She stayed awake the whole time and never cried. Michael and Laura were the Godparents. It was so great to have them both there! Then everyone came to our house afterwards for food and partying!

Happy Birthday Lily

We officially have a 6 year old in the house! So hard to believe. Lilian's birthday was yesterday and it was chock full of fun. Her class took a field trip to Conner Prairie and I was able to go along and chaperone. They visited the old pioneer blacksmith, potter, shop keeper, inn keeper and home. Oh and they saw a sheep get shorn (sp?) and then saw the wool turned into yarn and the yarn turned into a blanket. It was cool. Rained the whole day, though, so we were muddy and tired when that was done. After school Lily had a small group of her friends to a birthday party at the Sweet Treat Boutique, our little ice cream and candy shop. They did a really good job with the party. The kids get to see cotton candy and carmel corn made. They make ice cream sundaes, and do a scavenger hunt. Needless to say, there were so many sweets that we skipped the ice cream cake and just put a candle in her sundae :) She has some great friends and it was nice to see them have fun together after school. Here are some pictures of the fun. OH, and the party was a Fancy Nancy theme. We asked everyone to "dress fancy". Check out Miriam's awesome "fancy" outfit :)

We LUV fall 2011

We have had one fantastic fall so far. The weather has been beautiful and we've been busy with soccer, long walks, playing outside, and other fun outdoor activities. Barclay has been golfing a ton too. Today we promised the girls we'd get our pumpkin. Turns out, our usual place is closed on Sundays, so we ventured to Noblesville to Stoney Creek Farms. So did all of Indianapolis and Hamilton County. It was crazy..but had it all at this place. We took a hayride (Miri's first) out to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins. Then we let the girls do 2 of the 50 activities they could choose from. They did the haunted house and this slide that went through a hill.

After Stoney Creek we went to John's parents house for a fly in. Because the weather was so nice they had a huge turn out with tons of planes, etc. They also had a big cookout so we had lunch their too. We took pictures with the two Marine planes for Uncle Joe, Uncle Matt, and Papa.

That's it around here - hope everyone had a great weekend!