October 2013

Happy fall! Happy Halloween!

Zoo with Tia. Wearing my bathrobe tie as  "ninja sash".

Where is he...

Ninja pose.

Will's favorite animal was a tiger that day. We frequently need to wear our tiger shirt to the zoo.

Out and about more, but still hot enough to splash.

Tia spoils us rotten.

Book sale at school. Choosing our favorite to bring home.

Grandma and Chips hula hoop birthday party.

No Alligators Allowed.

Doing push ups with Tia.

Will doing his math homework.

So proud!

Ada's assignment was to write a letter to her class. She's amazing.

Accidental pass out as we were getting ready to leave for a dinner party.

Impromptu sparklers in October!

Goof.Ball.

Ada with the "ginormous" tortoises. Spot of our zoo picnic lunch.

Desert Botanical Garden Fall Festival for family fun day.

Score!

Squash toss!

Picking our pumpkin.

Decorating table.

DBG

Who's taller than a cactus?

Butterfly Garden.

Beauty in the garden.

Investigating with dad.

Then something magical happened. We happened to be there at the time of a monarch shipment. The butterfly keepers explained to us that the butterflies body temperatures are cooled down and they sleep. They are then carefully put into envelopes where they slept until they get to their garden.

And we got to help wake them up!

As we opened the envelopes and the butterflies felt the fresh open, warm air they starting stretching their wings and flew off!

They still acted kinda sleepy and hungover and we had some cool mislandings.

Garden beauty.

zzzzzz

Taste of Cave Creek with Grandma.

More pumpkins at school.

Purple pumpkin.

Finished product, complete with glitter.

Twins in some twin slides.

Goofin' around at our buddy Daxton's cool Spiderman party.

Cotton Candy buddies, Ada and Gia.

MacDonald Ranch

Cowgirl.

Farmer and Fireman, Will and Chase. I believe they were taking James "to jail".

Sifting for gold at the ranch's "gold mine".

The girls got super into it.

More pumpkins! We love fall.

Ada and Leah found theirs.

Dad and Will planning their carve.

Gooey hands!

Row o' Jack O Lanterns.

Ada art.

Great AZ Puppet Theater on Halloween for Little Bunny's Halloween. Ada dressed as a flower, and Will a Monarch (cant see his wings very well here).

The anticipation.

Meeting Little Bunny after the show.

Make your own puppet. Will added a seed to his that he found on the way to the theater.

We then met dad at his school for a tour and lunch date.

Superheros getting ready for trick or treat!

Forest fairy mama with tinkerbell. Winks.

This Ironman suit completely cracks me up.

Party craft table Grandma Linda's Grandpa Mikes.

Halloween Party at Grandma Linda and Grandpa Mikes house. Here making a ghost necklace craft.

Goofballs. Pre tricking and treating.

The loot.

Rainbow ghost.

Wing play.

Party continues at school the next day with a fall parade. Ironman (LOL!) with Tinkerbell-rella. Ada keepin' it fresh.