October - all in one big post

Luckily, October came and went on one camera.  So let's do a LONG recap :)

Cub scouts visited a local fire house for their October den meeting; Austin saw lots of exciting things and made an escape route for our house in case of emergency.

His head, for the first time in his life, looks small :)

No clue; just was a good picture of the whole group.

Austin was listening intently.

Our church has a pumpkin patch every year and one weekend of the month they have a Party in the Patch.  Ansley is waiting in line for the bounce house.

As you will see in a minute, An needed a pumpkin for school, so we of course had to get her one that was her size!

Austin was running over, kind of got camouflaged in the background :)

Of course, someone stole the camera from me and decided to play the role of a photog!

Later, An convinced me to jump on the trampoline; clearly I am reliving childhood memories of Uncle Scott and me and our epic trampoline fights!!

Now, I am down on An's level.  Where the smaller I get the more I hurt!!

Up, up, and away!!

Charlie is out hunting squirrels..........no comment.

On October 30, I submitted my tenure packet for consideration.....Five years, three binders, six months of waiting......the tenure submission process: stressful!!  I will not hear anything until May 2013, so the waiting will be the worst!!

Ansley had a Halloween Party at school; she had lots of fun dressing up as a butterfly fairy.

This is her whole class; they were all quite cute dressed up as bugs and princesses and Spiderman!

An and Eric had great fun making a cool pumpkin!

Ansley and Annabell, "who is a bee, who takes pollen from flowers, do you know that" said Ansley when telling me who was in this picture with her.

Then Eric went over to Austin's school for Pumpkin Olympics; they had all kinds of games in the parking lot.

This is Austin's whole class; they are going for the monochromatic look :)

Austin going for the orange "cone" race; Go, Go, Go!!

This was the passing race, over and under; REACH!!!

And then there is Railey; Austin's new friend from Cub Scout camp.  Her brother is in Cub Scouts with Austin and they seemed to hit it off like "two peas in a pod" during their camp out weekend before last.... 

Then, later that same day, our annual neighborhood Halloween Party!!  It was SO cold, but we had a blast anyways!

AC1 & AC2 on the annual hayride; Eric did not drive this year, so he got to ride on it and enjoy it with the kids.

Uncle Patrick and Aunt Heather came over to celebrate with us on Halloween and we got him to take a picture with the little ones.......

Ansley got a ride with Uncle Pat while Dad was making a fire to roast marsh mellows in the background.

Somehow when we got dressed on Sunday for church, when it was back to 70 degree weather, we all had the same hue on, so we decided a picture was needed.  Don't worry, we were not too blue (snicker, snicker).

 

Happy October!!!