Busy, Busy, Busy

Between my job and Craig working out of town, I have been going non-stop. Me and the kids have been doing so much, especially on the weekends. The first week in October is Cruisin' the Coast. I looooove Cruisin'. I can't wait for it to come around each year. I really enjoy the muscle cars of the 60's and 70's...Cameros, Corvettes, Mustangs...and especially this Nova which reminds me of the one my dad had when I was a kid.



Lauren likes the older cars of the 40's and 50's (?) Especially the ones with flames painted on them.





And we all love the burnouts that they do...



The last couple of years Mom and I have been taking Lauren over to the Mobile Fair, but this year it just wasn't possible. So we tool both the kids to the Church of the Redeemer fall festival and pumpkin patch. Lauren got her face painted.



Both of the kids played games like feed the pumpkin eater and cake walk (mom won a cake on that one, YAY mom!) And they got to walk around the patch and pick out pumpkins.







And of course, there's Halloween. Lauren and I painted the pumpkins while Ethan was napping. It was nice to have a little bit of time with just the two of us.





Here's the finished products...The little pumpkins have faces on both sides of them.



Lauren dressed up as a pirate...Think Elizabeth Swann from the first POTC movie when she stowed away on the ship.

Big Boy here was Superman. I went with something not too hot (do you know how hard that is??!!) and something that didn't require a headpiece.



We piled up and went up to my mom's church this year and did Hallelujah night. We usually go downtown, but with Craig gone this year, I was not carting two kids around that many people by myself. I think they had fun...Lauren gushed "This is the best trick or treat ev-er!!" She's so dramatic.





Lauren bobbed for apples but I didn't get any pictures of it. She came up to me twice dripping wet and dashed off again before I could even think to get the camera. So here's the bucket...



She had so much fun playing all the games. She was trying for 50 tickets so she could get a slingshot, of all things!