Halloween dance

I had to get Jane's hair up under a wig!

Two Harrys and a fox!

Quidditch Harry racing around

The Queen of Hearts helped to wrap me up like a mummy!

historic park

Nate and I walked through part of the Minuteman historic park on our anniversary. It was nice, but kind of hot out!

pumpkinfest

We had a cool but nice day for Oktoberfest at Grammy's house!

This is Malcolm's pumpkin:

Jane and Malcolm were excited to see their cousins, Reagan and Willow!

I found a bunch of hershey kiss wrappers in Malcolm's coat pocket that night!

Jane did the cat. I did the greenish pumpkin that's supposed to be a golden snitch. My pumpkin was difficult to work with so my design wasn't too elaborate! Uncle Don made the awesome sign!

The sunset was pretty on the way home!

field hockey progress

After two weeks off, Jane went back for more field hockey. I watched the end and saw her score a goal! She seems to have control of the ball and she goes after it more than she did in soccer.

Malcolm's party

Malcolm had a fun after-school birthday party with two of his friends!

First they played balloon toss.

Then they had snacks and played a bunch of games Jane and I didn't understand.

Malcolm wanted an ice cream cake. It was half chocolate, half chocolate chip. They're so easy to make!

Legos!

pumpkin shopping

Time to get our first round of pumpkins!

birthday at the aquarium

For Malcolm's birthday breakfast, we went to a Western-themed restaurant. It was good! Next the kids swam again, then we went to the lake aquarium. Right when we arrived a movie about chipmunks was playing, so we saw it!

There were also ocean animals.

Malcolm wanted puffy hair for his birthday so I used the hairdryer!

This was a cool sand table we had seen before. The lighting changes when kids move the sand so it looks like lakes and mountains.

There was a fun area for playing.

We went out for a late lunch and Malcolm had macaroni and cheese. He had wanted it the whole time and we finally found a restaurant that had it! Then we went to the Ben & Jerry's on Church Street for more ice cream!

birthday fun

We woke up to another pretty sunrise on Saturday, my birthday!

We went to Henry's Diner for breakfast. Normally I don't think diners are that great, but this one was! We ended up only having breakfast and dinner most days because we were too full to have lunch.

Afterwards we explored the shoreline.

I saw online that there was a 5k that day, so we went to Oakledge Park to check it out. It turned out the time on the website was wrong so we were a few minutes late, but I still ran anyway. I thought it was fun to run a race on my birthday!

The park had a treehouse!

There was a beach at the park, too.

We checked out the Earth Clock. It was cool!

Later we went shopping. The highlight was definitely Lake Champlain Chocolates! We also loved this bookstore.

The kids made Star Wars magnets.

There were some cute sculptures outside City Hall.

We went to a Mexican restaurant in an old diner for dinner and I got to have some more delicious Vermont beer!

The sunset was pretty again.