Pumpkin Patch, Pumpkin Carving and Halloween

We started our Halloween fun with a trip to the pumpkin patch. This year Anna's school went on a field trip to the big pumpkin patch, so we just went up to the church nearby to get our carving ones for the house. Grandma Clerkin took McKenna to another pumpkin patch with some friends from school and some of Grandma friends one day which was a huge hit with McKenna.

Anna finding the biggest pumpkin she can carry

Posing with pumpkins

Just the right size

Anna likes the pumpkin goop - McKenna not so much!

Grandma Franz and Aunt Jenny always help to carve the pumpkins!

McKenna at the pumpkin patch with Caitlin from her class and Mary, grandma's friends' granddaughter

HALLOWEEN!!!!!

What do you get with 2 princesses and a lady bug on Halloween night? 2 VERY excited little girls and 1 sick baby :( Overall we had a great halloween, but after we got all dressed up and had some family come over, Ava started not feeling well, so Aunt Jenny (my sister) came to the rescue and hung out at the house with Ava while Patrick and I took Anna and McKenna out with some other girls from the neighborhood. We started out with the same 6 girls from last year - Anna, McKenna, Caitlin, Kennedy, Maddie and Abbie. These girls have known each other since the older ones were just under a year. We were all in our neighborhood playgroup, and Caitlin and Kennedy's mom, Ashley, and I work together. After a little bit, this group headed over to Megan's house - a friend from school and we became a group of 10 little girls - crazy! they all had a great Halloween night and were thoroughly exhausted after running from house to house

Original 6 sisters

9 of the 10 (Minnie Mouse didn't want anything to do with pictures!)
Ava telling us that she would rather stay home with Aunt Jenny

Sitto, Jiddo and Grandma Clerkin came by with more Halloween treats!

Ladybug Ava

Snow White McKenna

Cinderella Anna

We also celebrated Grandma Clerkin's birthday in October. Grandma wanted strawberry shortcake for her dessert, but the girls insisted that she really wanted chocolate cake, so we ended up with both! Can you guess who really wanted the chocolate cake? :)

We had a very fun playdate with some of the kids from our original hospital playgroup that we joined with Anna. The girls had so much fun running around with Gemma, Zara, and Dylan. I finally got to meet Dylan's little sister Savannah who is 1 week younger than Ava, and we got to hang out with Gemma and Zara's sister Isla, who is 1 week older than Ava. Below are the 4 older girls - they are standing in reverse age order: L to R - Zara, McKenna, Gemma and Anna - the older 2 look smaller than the younger 2!!!

Kristen and I with the little ones - Eric and Patrick don't know what to do with all these girls!

Anna and McKenna thought these dresses were so much fun. I did NOT pose them like this. They were doing their own fashion show - giving great poses and loving it!