October 2015 Happenings

October was a fabulous month in Iowa.  The weather was unbelievably warm and so many fun things to do outside in the fall.

Bondurant Orchard for Girl Scouts

3rd (or 4th) Run for the Roses and absolutely the best weather yet:)  Joy and I both placed in our age groups!

Back to the same orchard/ pumpkin patch but this time with Mindy and Aidan.  We also picked out pumpkins to bring home from here.

And that's a wrap.  Carter is officially done being a Titan and moving on to be a Nevada Cub football player.  He seemed to enjoy the game and made lots of new friends.

Lanie got to bring Camlyn to the Halloween costume party at Gigi's Playhouse.  Had a lot of fun and ate way too many sweets:)

We finally made our trip to the Omaha Zoo with Grandma and Grandpa.  We stayed in a hotel with a pool the night before and ordered pizza for supper.  The next morning we were at the gates of the zoo at opening and stayed nearly 6 hours.  Unfortunately the back side of the zoo (all the African safari) was closed because of renovations.  I'm sure it'll be fantastic when its done.

The bumble bee and bee catcher.

Went out on Friday night with couples to the Other Place for Halloween.  Always fun to dress up and catch up on each other's lives:)

Talk about waiting until the last minute... we finally carved pumpkins at about 3pm the day of Trick or Treating.  Carter and our pumpkin we drilled and Lanie wanted to paint hers.

Carter went trick or treating with Keegan and his family on "the bus".  We went out to Lynch's neighborhood and went trick or treating with other families after having chili potluck at Grimms.  It was a really great time.