Ah, my favorite month of the year! I love everything fall and Halloween related. Next to Christmas, it is my favorite holiday. (Well, after my birthday too, I guess.)
This month started with me tearing apart my kitchen to install a tile backsplash. Yes, I did all the work myself (took two days to demo, cut and install tiles, and grout). So here is the before and after transformation...
This is Brooklyn's birth month. Her actual day of celebration is the 22nd, but we had a birthday event about every week, it seemed. Any time I would make a dessert to have after dinner, she would claim it as her birthday treat. Here she is with her claimed angel food cake...
I also went to get my hair done, and she insisted on having her hair done too (and she just HAD to sit under the dryer, because mom did)...
Brookie received (early) birthday gifts from Grandma (Christensen) and Tom...
My husband is a graduate of Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS) and every year his alma mater play a football game at Arrowhead Stadium (home of the KC Chiefs) against a rival school. Again, we wanted to introduce Margot to anther American staple; football. Can't have a complete American experience without football :) We had another great time. Is was cold and wet, but we made the most of it!
We celebrated Brookie's birthday on the 22nd...she is now a 4 year old. Man, how fast those first four years flew...
We carved our pumpkins on the 27th. You may think that it is odd that I remember the exact date. I would not, normally, but this year on pumpkin carving day, I received a phone call from my brother, Robert, announcing that he and his beautiful wife, Stacie had just brought their first child into the world. My new nephew, Bowen Stephen Christensen had finally made his first appearance. Isn't he a doll?!
Here are our carving photo's. No, Brooklyn is not a fan in the least. She refuses to put her hands in the yucky pumpkin - daddy tried to make her...
And, here are our pumpkins... (My husband takes pumpkin carving very seriously. He is the last one to leave the patch - it has to be juuuust the right pumpkin; he is also the last one left at the table carving - it has to have juuuust the right look. He is known as the "pumpkin master" at our house (among a few other names - like "Yard Nazi" when it comes to his anal lawn manicuring tendencies during the spring and summer...))
Top left to right: Logan's pumpkin, a snitch from Harry Potter; my pumpkin a K-State power cat.
Middle left to right: Larynn's Wisconsin Badger pumpkin (yeah!!) and Margot's Harry Potter Deathly Hollows pumpkin.
Bottom left to right: Shawn's "unexplainable" pumpkin and Brookie's "mad" pumpkin.
And of course, there was trick or treating, parties at school and church activities...
