Happy B-Day Aunt Kate

We celebrated Aunt Kate's b-day this weekend. Hope she has a wonderful birthday on Wednesday!

Spooktacular

On Saturday, we headed to the St. Pius Spooktacular, where the girls played games, had their faces painted and of course, got candy.

Halloween Party at Edgewood

The girls and I headed over to Edgewood for their Halloween party. Papa (or pops as the girls are calling him) was there from golf earlier in the day.

Sneak preview of the butterfly princess and the Notre Dame cheerleader

I love the excitement on Maddie's face!

The girls decorated cookies

The girls decorated pumpkins

Happy Birthday Beatrix!

On Saturday, we were lucky enough to help celebrate Beatrix's 1st birthday! Thanks Erin and Scott for letting us be a part of her special day.

The birthday girl - she's so steady walking at just a year!

The girls were so content to color - even Bea got in on the action!

The three musketeers (and Maddie). They ate their pizza in the clubhouse and then they are belly up to the bar for the sweets!

Maddie was tough at work on her laptop!

Last soccer game

Sweet baby - soon to be middle child

Maddie always wants to hug and kiss the baby. I figured I would try and get a picture of it. She is so sweet when she does it. She can't wait for her to arrive (and quite frankly, neither can I! Kind of done with being pregnant!)

Here the little ham, said, "Mama, take a picture of me!" and then went and posed like this. Then she had to come check out the picture to see how it looked.

Halloween Party

Haileys friend from daycare, Jossie, had a couple of girls over from daycare for a mini halloween party. They girls don't get to see each other much since they go to different schools. Hailey had a great time.

Dress up queen

On the weekends, Maddie has taken to taking off her pajamas and coming upstairs dressed up in some of her dress up clothes. She walks around in them for hours, along with the high heel shoes. Here she is totally hamming it up for the camera.

Wipeout

Poor Maddie fell off one of her ride along toys this weekend and busted up her chin. That stinkin chin bleed all night into the next day! I think we went through 4 band- aids. There is just nothing worse than seeing your baby hurt.

Nana and Papa's fall block party

Nana and Papa's block has a fall block party -complete with a chili cook off. Kris and Papa were part of the judging crew. We asked Aimee and Marc to come along if they didn't have anything going on. I would say the kids had a good time. They had a blast playing in the leaves.

Hailey played with the big girls much of the night

These two had their own little leaf throwing fight - all in good fun!

One of my parents neighbors always has an OBNOXIOUS front yard display - no matter the holiday or season. Maddie was so excited to see it. She kept saying - "It's Halloween!" and she wanted to take pictures.

The girls had so much fun and it was such a nice night. We knew it would be tough to pull them out of there, so we let them spend the night at Nana and Papa's. I guess the block party was in full swing until 11:45! I think that may be the latest the girls have ever stayed up. When I went to pick them up, they told me they also decided to call Papa - Pops. Then they giggled with glee.

Goalie

Hailey got to be goalie again - she loves it. She had a tougher time this time, couple of goals were scored, but she told me she tried her best.

Park

We headed to the park this sunny Sunday afternoon and the girls were in a nice, lovey dovey mood. Its nice when its one of those days. Their mood matched the beautiful weather.

This is probably one of my favorite pictures of them lately. They look so grown up.

Big sis pushing little sis at little sis' request

Babys crib

Awww...I looked in the baby's room and found these toys waiting in her crib. Hailey told me she found them and wanted to get them ready for the baby.

Pumpkin Patch

What a beautiful weekend! On Saturday, we headed to a pumpkin patch. It's a pretty cool place with lots of things for the girls to play on, play with and we got to take a hay ride out to one of the fields to pick out pumpkins.

Riding the tractors

Playing in the corn - yes, the sandbox is full of corn

Hailey climbing in the hay in the barn

Elusive shot of me with the girls while waiting for our hayride

Looking for a good one. Hailey found one she liked and Kris had to help her detach it

Hailey proudly showed off the pumpkin she picked out

Maddie proudly washing the little one she picked out. We ended up with a whole family of pumpkins, including one for the new baby.