We’ve been having so much fun this fall I’m a bit behind in getting this post online!

We have a little blue Cookie Monster this year! Finn really loves his costume. I got home the day it had arrived and when I walked in the door Kevin had him dressed up. He had the hugest smile on his face and was holding a cookie in his hand, which he quickly began eating in Cookie Monster fashion. He is quite the entertainer these days. We went to the Spooktakular at the Rec Center on Thursday where we ran in to our cousins and several of our friends. It was a beautiful night and we were able to walk through the haunted woods, the hay bale maze, and go trick or treating.  After church on Sunday we headed to Mansfield for an afternoon of fun with Grandma and Grandpa Beilstein. We had a full slate of activites, first at Apple Hill Orchard where we intended to pick apples. However, when we arrived the sign said u-pick was finished for the season!  Luckily their store was still full of apples, so we “picked” ours indoors instead and then wandered around the orchard. The trees were beautiful and the orchard is in the pretty rolling hills of Richland County. Kevin and I would love to have about 5 or 10 acres on a setting just like this 🙂 Next up was Wayne’s Country Market where Finn and I cruised through the hay-bale maze. There were fun tunnels which were a hit, and also a straw horse.  Then we hung out at Grandma and Grandpa’s house before heading to the Pumpkin Glow at Kingwood Center. Finn loved running down the hill to the neighbors driveway where he was captured by Grandpa a couple of times. We also checked out the possum that Grandpa caught in their backyard live-trap, but I didn’t capture a photo of it. We headed to the Glow before dusk, which was perfect timing, as when we were leaving and it was dark the line at the beginning was HUGE! Though I did run in to a high school friend and his family who I don’t think I’ve seen in probably 15 years, so that was fun. There were hundreds of carved pumpkins, food trucks, and lighted balloons and glow necklaces for kids. It was really well attended! And when we arrived home, Lily and Cameron were quite happy to see us (after 12 hours of being home alone) and they were super awesome not having a potty break the entire time!! And here are a few others from the week. Finn loves going for a “ride” on the tractor with Kevin (and thanks to Google for the “auto-awesome” photo it put together for me of Finn and Kevin going through the back yard). He loves to play with Lily and one morning after Lily was going nuts in her bed, then left, Griffin went and sat where she was. Finn and Graham had fun on the rocks at church, he tries to move them and likes climbing on them. And doing some nature painting with Debbie.   

Construction project from this week was to re-build the doors on the shed, first so they would actually close, and second so the tractor would fit! Kevin and Brett had to widen the door frame several inches and then re-build the doors so that the mower would fit through. Can’t even tell anything was done, can you? These are professionals 🙂  Work on the garage included putting up shelving and installing cabinets. Photos on that will be coming soon.