Happy Halloween!!

Our little giraffe taking a break from dancing.
Caden and Addie with their cousins, Lily and Ava

Fireman Mitchell #2

Kim and Jim, our newest neighbors. We are so excited to have them living so close to us now. Caden and Addie love playing with their cousins, Lily and Ava, whenever they can.

Addie with her Godmother, Kelly.

The crazy Kimball clan!

The Mitchell's Annual Halloween Bash was back this year! We enjoyed having a smaller party this year with our closest family and friends. It was great to be able to socialize with everyone instead of spending all our time in the kitchen! We enjoyed the towering inferno in our outdoor fire pit. The costumes were great...prizes were awarded as usual. Everyone seemed to have a great time. Grampy Mark dressed in his usual drag and was certainly the life of the party. Caden has requested that he never dress like that again :-) We hope everyone had fun, and we are already looking forward to next year's bash!

On Halloween night we finally managed to get Addie into her giraffe costume without throwing a fit. Of course, Caden never wanted to take his costume off. We went to Trick or Trunk as usual. Caden helped Daddy decorate a firetruck with our firehouse friends. Then Addie danced the night away when the DJ started playing. She cried when it was time to leave. I think she is going to have dancing feet like her Auntie Kara. Between Kara and my cousin, Kim, she will be a fabulous dancer, but for now we will just enjoy her rendition of the chicken dance, which is quite hilarious.

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

Fall Fun

Addie was so anxious to hop in the bath one night that she jumped in with her clothes on!

Hmmm...how do we know which one to pick?

I want to take this one home!

Always take time to stop and smell the flowers.

Jay at the Truck Rodeo

Addie chomping on apple cider donuts...yum, yum!

Caden at Beardsley Orchard - I think he had more fun running around with Auntie Kara than he did picking the apples.

Just wanted to post some fun pictures. We have had a great fall season and can't believe it is November already! We have been quite busy. Jay entered a Truck Rodeo with the fire department and won several awards for driving a firetruck through an obstacle course. He took home the 2nd place overall and best rookie driver trophies! We had fun watching him and are very proud of all he puts into being a volunteer fireman. Go Daddy!

Our favorite fall activities are apple and pumpkin picking with the kids. We went to Beardsley Cider Mill and Orchard in September for apples. It was our first time there and we really enjoyed it...in fact we went back a few weeks later, too. The kids loved picking the apples and eating the warm and yummy apple cider donuts. We even got to watch them make the cider. A few weeks later we went to Jones Farm Pumpkin Seed Hill to pick some pumpkins. Caden had a blast on a hay ride, too. Hope everyone enjoyed their fall season as much as we did!