School pics

Well here they are.  Strangely enough, I think Lucas looks YOUNGER than last year.

Liliana's is just too funny.  Her hair really isn't how I would like it (wait until the xmas card-you'll see her pretty hair) and that smirk!  But beautiful she is!

Halloween fun with the cousins.

On Thursday, we went up to Newtown to see Pete and his family and to carve some pumpkins.  

We had pumpkins to carve.....

Look at these masterpieces!

Since Liliana and Lucas were limited in how much they could "carve", I brought milk jugs for them to make "ghouls".  They color a ghost face with a black marker and then on Halloween night we will put a glow stick in them so that we have ghouls and a jack o'lantern.

Sorry, but I beat you to the post Pete!!!  Thanks for having us though!

Birthday Fun...

Sunday was Lucas and Josephine's birthday.  We headed over to their house and enjoyed a nice party complete with bouncy house.  After  most of the kids had gone home, they got these presents..mini fourwheelers!  They are super fun and they go very slow which is nice.  The kids had a ball.

The dads got into the bouncehouse after the party was over...

I think that is Felix trying to stufff Liliana in the basketball hoop....although I am not sure.

And yesterday was Felix's birthday!  We had a chocolate cake complete with candy corns.

Beautiful out...

It was so nice last week that we took advantage of every chance we had to be outside after school.  On Thursday we walked down to the town green right next to our house.  They built a new gazebo this summer and it looks so nice!

Afterwards, we walked up to Stew Leonard's for a Haunted Hay Ride and some hanging out in the Halloween section.  

Learning to Rollerskate....

To the beach!!!

It was beautiful this weekend, but Fall is definitely in the air.  While it was almost t-shirt weather yesterday, it as cool today.  After lunch, I took the kids over to Compo to spend some time by the water.  It was really windy, so we were bundled up pretty well.  There were some serious waves and even though you can't quite see it in this picture, there was a windsurfer jumping over all the waves.

There were a lot of people at the beach for such a cold day.  While my kids were in hats and jackets, there were two kids in shorts and t-shirts running around IN the water!

They passed out before we even got out of the parking lot.  The outdoor air will get them everytime -that and the fact that they no longer nap, and I think they still need it.  When you look like this at 3 pm, most likely, a nap wouldn't be a bad idea.