Today I helped host a baby shower for my sister-in-law Rayna. Baby Alice has tried to come twice in the past couple of weeks but thankfully she has held off! We are all very ready to meet her and welcome her into our family!!
The cake - they are doing the nursery in Classic Pooh and my mom used their baby bedding as inspiration for the cake!
We had such an amazing night at our Fall Festival! I think that this is the most people we have had come to our Fall Festival and by far the best set up for the night! We had trunk-or-treat, 6 inflatables, tons of carnival games, food, a preschool area, and of course the box maze! We dressed Claire up as a little black kitty and she was super cute! She would even meow at you! Claire had a lot of fun jumping on the preschool only bounce island and she even attempted the preschool obstacle course twice!! She had so much fun and was asleep in the car before we pulled out of the church parking lot!!!
Our little black kitty!
Showing off her tail (a black feather boa)
Our family!!! Michael as a Ghost buster!! Yes, all of the stuff on him was his when he was little...
Claire and daddy
Claire and mommy (I was a ghost to go along with Michael's costume)
Mustard, a hot dog, and ketchup
Claire with Emily
Trying to find ghosts for daddy
Claire and daddy
on the preschool bounce island
Getting her arm painted by Mady
Playing plinko
Playing wheel of prizes! She just wanted to keep spinning the wheel!
She was so excited about all the candy and prizes she got!
Today I think we started a new family tradition! And that is, going to Mainstay Farm in the fall! This farm is AMAZING! I took my school kids on a field trip there last year and thought it was great, but taking my own child there made it so much more amazing. This farm has so much to do. They have TONS of pumpkins, they have 3 mazes - a rope maze, a hedge maze, and a wooden maze. They have a 3 story tree house with rope swings. They have peddle cars and a 100 foot slide - which was so much fun! We took a hay ride through their Christmas tree farm and met a "hobo" named Nayed (Ned). It was a great day. If you live in our area you should definitely check it out! What made it even better was that we had the day with the Cieply family! The Cieply's keep Claire during the day for us and they love her to death! We are very thankful for their friendship and love!
In the hay barn - we thought it best not to let her play in the hay. Her allergies are really bad and we didn't want them to flare up!
Jake in the hay
Our group on the hayride! Claire, Michael, Shauna, DJ, Laura, Lincoln, David, Briggs, Mindy, Jake, Luke
Daddy hugs are the best!
Nayed (Ned) our "hobo" on the hayride! Claire really loves the Cieply boys!
Claire with Laura's glasses on!
A picture with her Monday-Friday "brothers"
Love this picture! In the wooden maze!
Having a lot of fun! The first time through she tried to crawl under the wooden panel.
Laura and Shauna cheering us on!
Rope swing!
CHEESE!!
What a cute group of boys!
Driving a car!
I love this girl! I love that I get to do Bible study with her each week and that she has a love for the Lord that is so pure!
Claire loved the peddle cars!
This picture was taken right before the donkey tried to lip Claire - causing Michael to jump back with her and scare her half to death. After 10 minutes of terrified crying Claire saw that the donkey was really nice and decided to pet the donkey.
Before the incident
Claire decided that this was the pumpkin for her! She picked up took 2 steps and fell over backwards.
So cute!
A batch of pumpkins just her size!
Laura! This girl blesses my heart! Mark my words - she will be famous someday!
This family is so amazing! They take such good care of Claire and love her like one of their own!
Laura, Lincoln, Jake, DJ, and Luke
In all those big pumpkins she found a tiny one
This is my favorite picture! It shows pure excitement and joy to be at the pumpkin patch.
