Trick or Treating

Audrey's friend Alexis and her mom and dad came over tonight for pizza and a little trick or treating. The girls had a blast, they had to mention to everyone about their tails, it was hilarious. Glad the girls had similiar costumes to share in the fun!

Pumpkin Carving Party

Today we had a pumpkin carving party at a friends house. A bunch of Audrey's friends from school were at the party, it was a blast. I think the parents did most of the carving, but Audrey definately did her share of helping. We had a great time!


Here is Brent getting started cutting the top off the pumpkin.

Here is Natalie all ready for pumpkin carving, doesn't everyone wear a helmet to carve pumpkins?

Audrey digging right in!

Alexis playing with pumpkin guts

Audrey kept stirring the guts in the bowl and saying she was making muffins. We have been making lots of muffins lately and she has been helping me.

Audrey and Gwenyth eyeing the snack table

Finished product, nice job Dad!

The whole gang and their pumpkins

Gwenyth and Audrey chose to just sit on their pumpkins

Let me take your picture

Audrey has been wanting to take my picture lately. She needs a little work, but is getting better.

I wanted to take Audrey's picture tonight, check out the cute way of keeping her bangs out of her face, it took a lot of convincing for her to let me do this. She is very independant and likes to disagree with my ideas lately.

2011 Wood Salsa Competition

Another great year for the Wood Salsa Competition. Doug won the 6th Annual Competition for the first time, with a little "In Your Face" attitude. It was all good fun, some great salsas this year. It was lots of fun and it was great to have my brother and April here this year from Washington, April came in 2nd and the rule was if they won they were having the contest next year in Washington.


Doug with the winning trophy

Lucy and Audrey enjoying a little bouncy ball fun, these two were awesome all day, had a blast together. Audrey was so worn out after so much activity today.

Adam and April

Heidi, Keith, and Bonnie

After the party we felt the need to get this chick outside for some fun, I hear it's going to get cooler this week so it was only right to get outside and play.

Swimming with the Mavericks

Audrey is getting so much braver in the water ever since we started her swimming lessons this fall. She takes lessons at Minnesota State and the women's swim team coaches the kids. I love it for the one on one attention the kids get. She feels really comfortable with her teacher and has come a long way. Brent says she already is a better swimmer than him, ha.

Weekend

Saturday Brent tried taking Audrey to the Corn Maze in Montgomery and when they got there Audrey would not get out of the van and wanted nothing to do with going through the corn maze. So, it just turned into a great drive while Audrey napped. Bummer, she has no idea the fun she was missing.

Today Audrey went to Sunday School and then her and I went over to her friend Natalie's house for the Vikings game. Her family invites friends over every Sunday during the game. It's a perfect chance for Audrey to play with her friends. Today the girls got Vikings pedicures during the game. Natalie's mom Jenny always provides the best game day food. It's incredible.

After the game we went with Grandma Julie to get our fall pumpkins. Audrey had a blast picking out pumpkins, except she tends to like the ones with all the lumps all over them, ha. Audrey and I spent a good 45 minutes wearing ourselves out at the park before meeting up with Grandma Julie and Grandpa Dan for pizza at Boomtown.

Funny story from the park:

Audrey: Stay there mom, I am going to work now.

Me: Where do you work?

Audrey: At the clinic

Me: What do you do there?

Audrey: Eat candy

Me: What is your job at the clinic?

Audrey: Play Hide and Seek and eat candy

This girl cracks me up, her stories are amazing.




Mom, I found some corn!

Any advice friends? We are trying to grow out Audrey's bangs, they are insane and her Preschool picture day is in a week, what can I do with them, they are pretty thick?

Night out Bowling

We had a little bowling outing tonight with Heidi and Lucy. The girls had a good time bowling! Every time Audrey would pick up her ball, she would grunt and makes noises the whole time she carried it to the ramp. She only dropped it a few times, whoopsie.

They spent a lot of time dancing around while waiting for their turn again.

Every time Audrey would roll the ball down the lane, she would turn around and not even watch it. I guess it's all over once you let go of the ball.

All Things Loved

I am really loving metal wall art, I just can't seem to find the perfect piece for my home.


I love this time of year for the yummy pumpkin lattes.

We got a sleep number bed in August and are loving it, the whole king sizedness of it. By the way, my sleep number is 40 and Brent's is 50, that isn't tmi is it?

Love the colors outside right now, I drove out of town last weekend and absolutely loved the drive, the colors are beautiful.

I love it so much that Audrey is just like Brent in photos, eyes closed. I love it, but makes it hard to get a great picture of the two of us.

Let Me Read to You!

Audrey loves reading to us lately, she even has to be professional and get out the stool! I absolutely love listening to her version of the story, short and sweet.