Brooke's 6th Birthday

We celebrated Brooke's birthday with doughnuts in the morning and then she picked Steak and Shake for dinner (2nd year in a row). She had her party at Build a Bear and because she only has 15 kids in her whole class, she was able to invite all of the girls from her class. She had a GREAT time and I will have to say that girl parties are MUCH calmer than boy parties!

Halloween

Andrew was Albert Pujols, Luke was a ninja, and Brooke was a cat. We began the evening with the annual neighborhood parade and firetruck visit. Notice that Brooke and her two best friends were all cats! Every year we have lived here we have the perfect Halloween weather for trick or treating. Once again it was a cool, crisp fall evening. Andrew, who has never loved dressing up finally had no costume dilemmas this year. He felt very comfortable in his baseball clothes. I wish he would have gone as a baseball player the past ten years! It would have saved us a lot of grief! Luke, however, had costume woes as his ninja ties weren't in the proper place on his arms and legs. Luke takes his role playing VERY seriously! Brooke, who usually gets tired after a few houses, was on fire and could have trick or treated all night. She was thrilled with the obscene amount of candy she got, but the funny thing is she has hardly eaten any of it!

More hiking in the fall

We couldn't get enough of the beautiful fall hiking this year. We are trying to earn our 4th badge in the fall hiking spree.