October - What a Blur!

We are so spoiled! When Kevin took his job at Mary Kay we knew it would be a big pay cut from the firm, but we had no idea that it would be made up with invites to so many fun events! With Kevin's status as an in-house attorney (meaning he is an attorney, presumably with hiring power, who works for a corporation in their legal department instead of a law firm) we have been invited to concerts, basketball and hockey games, parties, plays, and other fun events.

It has been SOOOO much fun!

The latest tickets to score?

KATY PERRY!

Yeah...it was an AWESOME concert! (Thank you Cheliuses!)

And we also got floor tickets to see the opening season game with the Mavericks vs Jazz (thank you Beuses!)

If we thought we were big shots hanging out at the American Airlines Center all the time, these cuties definitely remind us that we still have to wipe their dirty faces and bums!

We celebrated Kevin's birthday (33!!!) by going to Maggiano's with friends, Nothing Bundtinis at this office, and sushi with the kids (does that make us sound like yuppies, or what?) on his actual birthday!

We love the Hansen family. I love Cindy, Colin and Issac are the best of buddies, Reagan adores Isabel, and Kevin and Eric have so much fun together!

Eric, knowing that we have been in the plans to build a pool for next summer,  bought Kevin a pool floaty. It was the best present and Kevin cannot WAIT to use it!

The kids loved eating noodles with chopsticks at the sushi place. Reagan did surprisingly well for not even being two (better than me, in fact!)

 

I love his sweet sleeping face...I know I won't get many more of these shots as he usually doesn't take naps these days.

This little monster loves her cookies! While Colin is picky, she loves them all!

Colin's school pictures crack me up! In one he is giving a "mad face," in another his winning smile, and in the last one he is winking!

We ordered the middle one.

One day I was putting away the toys in the play kitchen and found this frog in there.  When I asked Colin about it, he told me that he wanted to keep the froggy warm! Ha!

Making Applesauce

We spent conference weekend relaxing and making applesauce! It was the perfect way to spend the weekend! And this year, Colin really got into helping!

His job? Load the apples to be washed and eat the apples!

My job? Strain the sauce!

These kids are eating this applesauce faster than we can make it!

Check out that wink!

Fall at the Arboretum

With our Arboretum pass expiring at the end of the month, we made sure to go every week!

These two are the cutest friends! They have so much fun together.

While Reagan repeatedly refused to have her face painted, these boys loved picking out a new design each week!

Making scary Frankenstein faces!

One Monday, Uncle Jim and Aunt Liz came with us and brought Jacob too (Colin's second cousin)

And we're back to Frankenstein!

Trying to get cute photos of these crazies is almost impossible! 

They just have too much fun together!

Reagan's stink eye!

And the money shot!

Halloween Festivities

We had so many fun Halloween activities this year!

I thought all year long about our costumes and finally settled on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

I figured that with four members of the family and four turtles, it would be the perfect family theme!

Kevin - Michelangelo

Leslie - Rafael

Colin - Leonardo

Reagan - Donatello (or Donatella!)

Plus, I was able to get the kids to help put the costumes together! They were so cute painting their shells!

Our first activity was the Ward Trunk or Treat (not pictured) and the next day we had a double header of parties! First, we hit the Weil Gotschal Halloween Party and had a total blast!

They had carnival games, inflatable obstacle courses, face painting, food, dancing, bounce houses, and caricatures!

I wasn't sure if we would have time to carve pumpkins, but we were able to squeeze it in and Colin LOVED helping daddy make a "funny face"

October 30th brought trick or treating at Mary Kay. These kids are spoiled from real trick or treating forever! they were able to go from office to office throughout three floors of the building and stuff their bags full of candy! 

And then it was finally Halloween day!

It was chilly and with loads of candy already at home, we only made it to a handful of houses before Colin declared he wanted to go home.

Fine by me!

All the pre-Halloween activities definitely kill the excitement of the actual day, but we sure do get a ton of use out of our costumes!