October

We had a fun October - fall is such a great time of year around here! Although with all the snow we have right now, you wouldn't know it. But, October was great! 

Jocelyn decided to be Anna from Frozen for Halloween. She has a dress-up dress, and so I didn't really need to buy anything for her costume. However, Halloween can either be gorgeously warm, or freezing and awful. So, I made a cape to go with her dress. I'm so glad I did - it was super easy and turned out really cute. And, Halloween was freezing and awful, so good thing I did! We also made a tooth fairy pillow that weekend. Good thing too, because this last Friday (11/21) she got her first wiggly tooth! She's been waiting and waiting to lose a tooth. She was pretty convinced that once she turned 6 it would happen. She was eating an apple, and started to cry because it hurt...Kailee discovered it hurt because it was wiggly! And we haven't kept our hands out of our mouth since! And she's telling everyone she knows about her tooth! I think it will be a while before it falls out - it's not that wiggly yet. Anyway, we have a cute pillow now for the Tooth Fairy.

 Mom & Dad came over for the day and we went apple picking - it was a few weeks into October, so there weren't a lot left, but the place we went was so wonderful. They had fun stuff for the kids to do, horse drawn wagon rides, pumpkins, squash and hay bales, and it was a nice family farm with owners who were so friendly and kind. 

 The guy let Kailee (who loves horses) drive the wagon the whole time! She thought it was pretty neat, and didn't send any of us over the edge of the wagon, so that was good.

The weekend before Thanksgiving we headed over to the Cities to go to the Zoo Boo with Elliot & Evan. we had such a fun time last year that we had to go back...I think it will be an annual tradition!

Buzz & Anna

 Now those are some dedicated parents! Angie made her whole outfit - she's so talented. What a cute Toy Story family!

 One of their friends came with too - Jocelyn was surprised to see another Anna! (Really?)

 Evan ditched his alien hat, but was so happy to just go along for the ride!

 The weather this night was gorgeous!

Here she is at school - they do a costume parade thru the halls. 

 And here's actual Halloween night. Anita took her out trick or treating for a little bit right away, but came home when it got too chilly. Then she was perfectly happy handing out candy the rest of the night! Love it!

 The weekend we came for the Zoo Boo, we stayed with Mom & Dad. It was Mom's birthday on Sunday, and it was nice to spend the weekend with them! We were looking for something fun to do on Saturday, and I had seen a few people post pictures on FaceBook of Severs' Corn Maze. It looked pretty fun, so we decided to give it a try. I'm so glad we did!  It was so fun; we spent hours there. The day was beautiful (a little windy) and there was a ton of stuff to do. Definitely will be going back next year!

 We started out with the maze, which was fun, and they had a map to follow with different signs you were supposed to find. It was fun about halfway, and then Jocelyn got tired of it and wanted to go do other things.

 The corn pit was so awesome. I probably could have stayed in there all afternoon! It was like a giant sandbox full of corn. And the corn is so smooth and fun to jump in and lay in! 

 We took turns burying each other - all the while trying not to think of all the germs that were in there. :)

 Then we headed over to the huge bouncy pillows. Again, could have done that all afternoon. Like a bouncy house, but better.

 Then it was time for some lunch!

 After lunch we went over to the Ultimate Corn Pit - this one had climbing stuff, ropes you could swing from and land in the corn (she was a bit too nervous to try that one). But she did make it all the way across the monkey bars!

 And what's a Midwest fair without a kangaroo?!