happy halloween

cookies

The twins & I made cookies together. It was messy but so much fun. It was hard to get them not to eat the raw cookie dough. I personally love raw cookie dough but with all the egg recalls I am afraid to let them eat or touch any raw eggs. So that got a little interesting. When they came out of the oven Chloe had about 5 cookies. Carter took a little bite of one and said YUCK. He hates anything sweet. Odd ... I know. I am sure someday he will catch on to the candy & sweets thing.

Leaves

We have about a gazillion Maple trees in our yard & in surrounding yards. We get a lot of leaves and even that is an understatement. This time of year is beautiful with all the colors. I think Fall is one of my favorite times of year. The weather has been so nice and sunny this week that we have had the pleasure of doing lots of fun things outside. They had a really fun impromptu leave-playing session today it was priceless. These kids bring a smile to my face doing just about anything :)

solo trip to the zoo

I got brave for some crazy reason last week and took a solo trip to the zoo. We have done the zoo before but with the containment of the stroller. Since they won't ride in the stroller anymore for more than like 2 minutes at a time I figured we would give it a shot without it. Yes those cute little monkey backpacks double as leashes. I know there are differing thoughts on these but in my opinion they work, keep them safe and that's all that really matters. It was the best 20$ we have spent in a while.

Although we had fun, I think I got a little a head of myself when I decided to do this little outing. There is most certainly a reason 2 & under are free at the zoo. It was hard to keep them going in the same direction & interested in doing the same thing. We only saw the pigs, cow, chickens & goats and left after an hour. They thought it was great fun... I was sweating by the time I got them loaded back into the car. Next time we will bring someone else with us I think.One of the most interseting things at the zoo was the leaves...who would have thought?

We stopped for a quick snack, not to sure what they are both doing here but I think it's cute

Chasing Carter, I do LOTS of this

The big rock was super cool ;)

pumpkin time

We went to the little pumpkin patch by our house, Dr. Mazes Farm, on Saturday to pick out our pumpkins. The twins thought it was a blast. It was a beautiful fall day. We had a gorgeous weekend. It was amazing how much more they are capable of doing this year at the pumpkin patch vs. last year.


My Dad stopped by the farm with us for a little bit!

Jerame & Carter's pumpkin has the worlds largest stem


Last year at the pumpkin patch Oct. 09. Amazing. They look like little babies.They got so dirty because they were not that stable on their feet yet. I think Chlo looks the most different between the two pictures :)

30

I celebrated my 30th bday last week. When Jerame asked me what I wanted to do for my 30th bday I told him that my dream celebration would be to have a big party, one that all my friends could come to. And that is exactly what I got...a small wedding.....except no one got married :) I loved my party. Every single thing about it. We had the private dinning room at the Purple Cafe & Wine bar in Bellevue. There was wine, food, flowers, cake, candles, photo ops and lots & lots of people that I LOVE. Thank you to Jerame for welcoming me into my thirties in such a lovely way. To be honest I think my thirty's will be some of the best years yet.
Some pictures from the night...there were lots & I am in a lot of them :)

Jack Johnson concert

The first weekend of the month the twinnies went to stay with my parents & we got two kiddo free nights. We went over to the Gorge and saw the Jack Johnson concert. It was awesome. It was our 3rd time seeing him at the Gorge and he is always just so good. We were also lucky enough to stay at the Cave B Inn the night of the concert along with our friends Jess & Justin. It was so nice because we were able to just walk next door to the concert & walk back over to the hotel when we were done. Jerame and I then stayed an extra night, just the two of us, & did nothing but relax. It was just what the Dr. ordered. It was a beautiful time of year to visit the winery to because all the grapes were still on the vines, they were just getting ready to harvest them.