Spooky Eats

I decided the girls were old enough this year to have fun with them for Halloween dinner.  So this was our spread:  mummy pizzas, carrot fingers with dip, and jack-o-lantern oranges.  Yum yum!

Darling I recall Central Park in fall

We took our annual trip to New York City at the beginning of August.  As usual we had a blast and got to see some of our good friends.  The girls loved it, especially Ava now that she can remember being there before and get excited to see things again.  

We met our sweet friends the Jones' for dinner.  They are serving a mission in NYC.

View from our hotel.  We stayed in Jersey this year because I waited too long to book our hotel.

Spent some time at the Central Park Zoo 

Spent lots of time with our favorite NYC girls

My girls commanded our friend Matt around the playground as if he was their own dad. 

Racing sailboats in central park

We had just read Ava the story of the Ugly Duckling so she was excited about this statue.

Rob rowing our boat across the lake in Central Park

Visiting the alma mater

Mom is there too.

We always have so much fun when we go to NYC and this year was no different.  We love getting to see our friends that are still there and I never get tired of that place.  We try to do different things every year and this year we braved our way out to Queens for the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.  It was a crazy adventure.

On or In

A few weeks ago we were at a baptism for our little friend Sam.  The opening song was about Jesus being baptized and has a line in it that says "When Jesus Christ was baptized, down in the river Jordan...."  Even though she's sung that song before, Ava turns to me with a look of confusion on her face and says "Mom, how could Jesus go IN the river if he could walk ON water?"  Too cute.

Spooky little models

I made the girls some Halloween shirts and then attempted to get a picture of them both smiling while wearing them which is kinda like trying to snuggle a porcupine and not get poked.  Good thing they're so cute even when they are being their crazy, wiggly selves.

No balloons=No fun

We went with some friends the annual hot air balloon festival here but due to some bad weather, we never even got to see the balloons launch.  Boo!  So this is all we got.

34 is big around here

We celebrated Rob's 34th birthday on August 18th.  Ava was super excited about the hat she bought him to wear and the gifts she bought him at the dollar store which included a whoopee cushion.