HaLloWEen!!

Parker's school held their annual Spooktacular this past weekend so we all dressed up and headed out!  It was a great time...live music, games, crafts, food...everything you could want!

 Parker and her friend Nora hitting the dance floor...they were a little unsure of it all!

 One of Parker's teachers Miss Shawnie

 I hit the dance floor to show her how it's done...

Family photo!  Aaron thinks it would be funny to always dress up as a Vampire (for him) and Waldo from "Where's Waldo" (for me) every year...so that all our pictures will look the same except for Parker's costumes...we'll see about that- I may need to mix it up!
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Hitting the streets!  The actual night of Halloween, I took Parker to some of our friend's houses.  I figure she can't say "trick or treat" and we don't want the candy around, so let's just go hit up our friends!

We had to stop by to see Parker's good friend Starra!

Fall In Full Effect...

This weekend we went out to Lone Pine Farms, which is in it's prime time!  Hay rides, pumpkin patch, cow rides, tractor rides, goats, horses, a huge haunted corn maze...it is awesome.  The weather was beautiful so we headed out to hunt down a couple pumpkins!

 Oh yea, and there is a place where you can pan for gold!

 Parker is doing sign language saying that the goat is hungry.

So we grabbed a wheel barrow and headed out to pick out our pumpkins.  Parker LOVED riding in the wheel barrow!  For real, it was her favorite thing...besides the tractors.  She would point and yell "WHOOOOAAAAAAA!!!".

 She's signing "more" when we stopped.

The next day we carved them up.  At first Parker was not into it...the insides freaked her out a little.  But then she got into it and even started eating the lids of the pumpkins!  When we finished we did the typical thing and took a family photo...

Last Days of Summer

I can't believe it's already Fall...where did Summer go?!  Well, here are our final pictures of Summer 2011...it was a great one!

Parker loves to paint...so I bought some washable fingers paints earlier in the summer and let her go to town in our dishwasher.  She loved it!!

 We had to move outside eventually...but brought the paints, a swimsuit and the pool with.

 And finally ended the day at the pool the last day it was open.  We took advantage of the beautiful 85 degree weather!

Aaron graduated from NDSU and so did a few other of our good friends.  Annie got it hooked up to have a bar in town show the NDSU vs U of M game...she even got NDSU to sent a bunch of swag!  It was a great time...the bartender and her boyfriend were from Moorhead, MN even!

Some good friends of ours have a beautiful house out in wine country with a few horses.  They had a big BBQ the other day and needless to say Parker loves it out there!!

I think she thought the horses were cows...she kept "mooing" at them

Aaron being funny and putting her in one of the feeding buckets in the stalls

This last picture is just of Parker's curls...which we just love!

Eating...Tailgating...Camping

 The other day everyone from Aaron's office got tickets to attend a dinner called "One Field Meal" which was held out at a local farm out in wine country.  It's all about the Slow Food movement.  Needless to say it was amazing!!!!!  Oh so so good.  The weather was beautiful, wine and beer was flowing, great company...couldn't have asked for a better Sunday evening!

 

 This was our table...full of good friends and soon to be great food.

Parker and Jonathan enjoying giving each other high fives!  It was soo cute!

 Aaron & Parker...Dave & Jonathan..Matt & Cameron

 There was also a bluegrass band that was playing...Parker and Cameron LOVED it!  This is them just staring at the musicians...eventually they started dancing it up!

 The farm had this old Basset Hound dog that Parker fell in love with and constantly followed around...he would just lay down and Parker would lay on top of him...giving him hugs!

 There was this goat tied up waaaaay on the other side of a field...of course the boys had to go check it out and see if they could get close.  The goat did eventually warm up to them.

Eugene is extremely supportive of it's college sports...especially football!  Aaron's office has season tickets they split up among the employees...Aaron and I were in charge to throw the tailgate for the first home game of the season.  It was awesome!  And the Ducks won!

 Parker and her good friend Cameron...getting stoked for the game!

 Nothing like a Corn Hole competition!

 

Over Labor Day weekend we loaded up the car along and headed East with our good friends Annie and Mike.  We ended up at Timpanogas Lake, 5,300 feet of elevation with the best camp site ever...right on the lake!

 Mike was out swimming around (*Mike's idea of "swimming around" is going 5 miles!) so Aaron took the canoe out to be his support...Tilly, Mike's dog, sat on the shore and just watched...it was so cute!  Making sure Mikey was a-ok.

This picture CRACKS me up!!  It's like our own little modern family :-)  The boys were actually on their way out to mushroom and grouse hunt.

Swim Lessons!

Parker finished her very first session of swimming lessons!  The first day, she was a little hesitant of being in the pool...but by the end of the three week session she was loving it!!  We also had a couple other friends in the class which made it that much more fun!

 Our good friends Kristena and little Starra

 Parker loves going down the water slide with Daddy!