We went to see Shamu

After the parade we went to Sea World for the Halloween Spooktacular for a few hours. Well right when it was our turn to go through the candy section all the booths ran out of candy. They claimed they were getting more soon but we didn't want to wait. We had fun anyway without candy.

Christopher loved the giant sandbox....

riding in style....

Everything we went to see Christopher would get so excited. He clapped for Shamu and he loved the penguins.....

and the carousel.....

I am so glad the weather is nicer and we will be able to go more often!

A Twinklerz Parade

Gracie is on the twinklerz dance team and they got to be in their first parade. I had her thinking she was going to have to walk a long way but they only had to ride in the back of a truck. Rylie started off saying she doesn't like parades but once the candy started getting thrown it was all good....

The Twinklerz...

Gracie and her friend Isabel....

It was fun!

Pumpkin Patch

We took our 3 pumpkins to pick out a pumpkin at the pumpkin patch. Times like this I wish we weren't in Florida and we could go to a real pumpkin patch. How cool would that be?

Christopher wasn't too into the pumpkins but he liked running.....

I think I have come to the realization that I am rarely going to get a picture of all 3 children together so I have stopped dwelling on trying so hard. It makes my life much easier. I did try a couple of times at the patch but Christopher was up and out of the picture before I could even back up. As you can see Rylie is also in the "cheese" stage so that doesn't help out too much. I think we still got some cute pictures though. :) Hope everyone is doing good!

Meet Hedgie

Gracie had a family homework assignment to make a puppet of a nocturnal animal. I went online and found a list of nocturnal animals and read her the list. Everything you think of being nocturnal was on there like bat, owl, raccoon....but did she pick one of those? Nope she chose the hedgehog. Not sure how she even knows what a hedgehog is but I decided it would be okay because not many kids would probably be bringing in a hedgehog puppet. We decided to make a sock puppet. I did any part requiring the glue gun and she did the whole face, ears, feet and sprayed the hairspray to make her quills prickly. It was fun to hear her talk about all the other kids puppets and how they were all so different.

Here's "hedgie"...I think it turned out cute.....

Christopher and the Ducks

We have been taking advantage of some great weather and have been spending lots of time outside. Last week I took Christopher to feed the ducks. We saw lots of swans, ducks and turtles. I couldn't take too many pics of us feeding them because I was too nervous Christopher was going to end up in the lake since he likes to go to the very edge to throw the bread in.

More bread Mommy....

We had a visit from the pigeons too....

We played on the playground.....

Christopher would stay outside all day if he could. We had lots of fun, anyone care to share where they like to go to feed ducks around Orlando?

Go BoSox!

Chris and I were so lucky to get tickets to the American League Championship game on Saturday night in Tampa. I have only been to Fenway to see games so this was new for me. It was so much fun. It is amazing to me how different a playoff game is versus a regular season game. There was definitely lots of Red Sox fans there too so we didn't feel too out of place. Now this was one of the greatest games of all times...lots of Home runs and the scoreboard kept going back and forth between the Rays and the Sox. Unfortunately after 11 innings my team lost :( We didn't get home until 4:00 in the morning and then I was up bright and early for church but it was definitely worth it.

Now since then the Sox look horrible and I am not counting on a World Series appearance.

Rylie performs in chapel

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After school we went to the churches playland. It is so fun to watch the kids interact and listen to what they are saying.

Rylie and her friend McKinley...

She has finally got the courage to go down the small slide....

Christopher loves it too.....