October happenings

With the busyness of back to school settling down I assumed I'd get more prompt with my blog posts. Maybe next month!  So, I will save {you and I} some time and just wrap up all of our Octobers happenings into this one post.  Well, except for Halloween...that deserves a post of it's own !

The Carousel

The girls and I love visiting the local carousel.  It's been around forever and is only open to the public about once a month.  Audra is sporting her "official" Perkasie Carousel t-shirt that she got as part of her party package when she had her very first ever birthday party at the carousel.

Pumpkin patch

We went on our usual pumpkin patch trip with Uncle Tim, Aunt Dawn and Charlotte.  The boys are getting too old to enjoy this anymore :(  Hoping we still have a few years of the little girls looking forward to it.

Call it creativity {or lack of time and energy}...

Daddy convinced Maura to spray paint her pumpkin instead of carve it.

Effective....yes,

Traditional...not so much

Bowling fundraiser

Tim and Dawn had a bowling fundraiser for their adoption that is in process.  It was a fun afternoon of bowling, pizza and raffles.

This was supposed to be a sweet girls picture...I didn't know Sean was photobombing us!!

Three little beauties from China...all home for 2.5 years now

Audra, Charlotte and friend Amanda

Getting in the Halloween spirit

Audra has a bunch of Halloween hand-me-downs.  It's been fun dressing her for school this month.  I didn't get pictures of all of her outfits, but here are a couple...