Thanksgiving snow

We had snow before Thanksgiving this year! Since school was cancelled for 2-1/2 days and roads weren't safe for driving, we had an extended Thanksgiving week break! It was VERY cold - in the teens and twenties for most of the week, but on Thanksgiving morning it snowed 2 inches of perfect wet snow just in time to make snowmen! By this afternoon we're expecting rain and we should be back to normal by the weekend! What a nice way to welcome the holiday season!

Day 2: too cold to play!

Day 4 (Thanksgiving): perfect for making snowmen!

Snow Angel:

Halloween Party at A Place To Grow

Daycare had a Halloween party on the Friday before Halloween - the kids all dressed up and then we played a few games. The kids wrapped the parents up like mummies and then they went outside for a "trick-or-treat" game. The festivities ended with Halloween snacks and then early dismissal! Here are a few photos of the fun afternoon:

Meliah & Izzy

Izzy & Cameron

Izzy acting like a mummy!

Attempting a group photo

Trick-or-treat game outside (Izzy has removed her costume at this point!)

Pumpkins!

For as long as I can remember, my Mom & Dad have purchased sugar pumpkins and cooked them up for pumpkin pie. It became something I enjoyed and I'm teaching Izzy to like it too!! She helped me with pumpkins a few times this season - we cleaned them, emptied the seeds, roasted the seeds, boiled the pumpkin, and then pureed it using a food mill. Izzy was very good at getting the seeds out for me and she LOVES to help turn the food mill. The first time we made chocolate chip pumpkin bread and the second time we made pumpkin pie! I think we have a pumpkin fan in the making!

Pumpkin Patch

We headed out to Fall City Farms to pick pumpkins in mid-October with friends Mitch & Khaisy and Chris & Pauline. Of course the kids came along too - Sienna and Sebastian! Izzy and Sienna had a ball jumping between the hay bales, balancing on a log, and then going through a hay maze. All the while baby Sebastian cuddled and looked cute. Come next year he'll be running through the field with the girls! It was a beautiful day - cold in the morning but they warm in the afternoon sun! A few photos (notice that Gerald was the photographer & didn't make it into any of the photos :-()...