The kids' second favorite day of the year!

Only Christmas day beats Halloween!  The kids (yes, my husband is a giant kid) love to dress up and get loads of candy!

  

Cutest witch around!  And the Cat in the Hat.

 Skylar and her friends were Alice in Wonderland.  Skylar made a great Alice!

 Grim Reaper.

 Pumpkin Bobble head scarecrow.

 My favorite leprechaun! Even shaved to have lamb chops:)

A very well dressed group this year!

Finally! Pumpking carving time!!

The kids got the pumpkins weeks ago at Pumpkinland, but if you cut them too early, they will rot!  Today, we finally get to carve them! Good thing-tomorrow is Halloween!

 

Indoor marching show

 So, they take the marching band into the gym and do a field show in the gym.  It was neat to see it up close.

Surprise Date night!

 JT surprised me with tickets to a group that I love-Pentatonix.  They are an acapella group that I just find amazing!!  I didn't even know they were on tour or close to us, so I was completely surprised!

Lotta's first swim meet!

She has been dying to get on swim team and now it is her first meet!! I wish I would have remembered to get a picture of her in her suit (she is so stinkin' cute), but the first meet is always total chaos!  She did so well though and I was so proud of how hard she tries!

Meanwhile, back at home, Papa teaches Skylar how to drive a stick shift.

James' choir concert

This time he has pants that button. (pat on the back, mom!) We have a new choir director and she is amazing!!  I could not believe what she could do with a middle school choir.

Palm Springs and Pumpkinland!

 A weekend after New York, I had a trip with my mother to Palm Springs.  My kids were a little irritated that I was gone TWO weekends in a row, but that's just how things fell.  We spent one afternoon hiking around the Aerial Tramway park.  It was a beautiful place!

While I was gallivanting around the country, JT took the kids to our annual trip of Pumpkinland!

New York!

 Marilyn (my mother in law) was so kind to take all of her "daughters" to New York for a weekend of shopping, eating, and seeing Hamilton!!  Fantastic show, food and fun!

Closing weekend at the lake!

 We still had to take out the fishing boat, so we had to some up for one last weekend!  And guess what?  After two years, our ski boat was finally fixed!  So, we had to put it in, even though we just had to take it out again!

 They actually got in some swimming!

 And, we caught a really big fish for once.  Well, James' friend did anyway.

 Of course, tubing was squeezed in;)