Recent Rundown

I'm not sure where the time has gone, but school wraps up for Jake next week.  *GULP*  He's going to be a 2nd grader next year, you guys!!  Craziness. 

We've been playing, of course, both inside and outside:

 

 

 

 

"Is it naptime yet??"

We all got fresh haircuts recently....I was trying to snap a shot to send to my BFF and got photobombed by some freshly bathed boys:

We've been trying to eat things that resemble real meals, though between baseball and various other commitments, some nights we end up eating Mickey pancakes and sometimes some of us eat in our bathrobes:

 

Jake's school was closed last Tuesday for Election Day, so we took advantage of the nice weather and headed to the zoo with some neighbors:

 

 

 

 

Post-zoo crash.

 Last Saturday, our BFFs were in town and we were able to meet them for dinner (ADULTS ONLY, WOOHOO!  Thank you for babysitting, GG!)  Always a good time!!

 

That's a wrap for now!!!

A Halloween filled weekend!

Halloween is creeping up on us, and we were ALL IN this weekend to do some pre-celebrating of the holiday! First up Sunday morning was Zoo Boo!  It was pretty cold there most of the time (especially when we first got there...BRRR!) but it felt good to walk around and seek out the sunny spots!  GG was able to join us again this year, too!

 

 

After much contemplation, the kids had settled on being Jake from Jake and the Neverland Pirates, and a ninja :-)  They looked super cute!

The only good thing about a chilly day at the zoo is that the animals tend to be a bit more active. For instance, this snow leopard, who, of all the times we've been to the zoo has never been doing anything but sitting in a tree or napping:

Many of the others were up and about, too:

It's hard to tell in these pics, but the orangutan was hanging out right up against the glass, and even put his hand up a few times and was just staring at the boys..it was the cutest thing ever!

Jake was all about posing as a ninja for much of the day....

And we ran into the State Farm bear, so you know our "Jake from State Farm" was super excited!

We ended our visit with a walk through the aquarium before eating lunch and heading home:

After a very, very brief stop at home, we headed out to the next Halloween activity....Trunk or Treat at church!  This was our first time going, and it was a really cute little party!  They had the whole gymnasium area filled with tables that the kids could walk around to....some of the tables were just passing out treats, while others had arts and crafts and games.  There was even a bouncy house outside!