Scenes from October!

November has been a doozy of a month and I am back to the desperate game of catch-up... The good news is that means less wordiness in these posts and more pictures! We did a lot of fall festival-ing again this year so I'll save the bounty of pics from those for a post all their own. Which means this one will be a fairly random assortment of moments from October, starting with...

One of Lilee's own superhero creations!

Just some after school sweetness for these two sweetnesses.

There was a phase when she was going to sleep with socks on her hands...

You do you, Lilee, you do you.

Always happy for some face paint!

And dog walking!!!

Sweet Leia, a good friend's dog.

And introducing the beginnings of another superhero ccreation-

She's brave, she's fierce, she's
Lion VEL!

Maelee checked out a cookbook from her school library so we spent a weekend trying out recipes! It was fun and delicious.

The discovery of dozens of monarch butterflies in our courtyard.

A double date with Cindy & Tim! We've been wanting to do this for YEARS! So glad we were able to work it out.

My trusty taste-tester.

Proud of her puzzle skills!

Maelee wrote a Lion Vel book for Lilee. It's awesome.

Silly besties.

 Posing for her star as the Star Student in PE!

 Helping out with the annual baking of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies!

My little climber. :)

Toward the end of the October we got to make a quick trip up to DE that was filled with lots of fun. After a couple hours enjoying the fall festival at Fifer Farms, we had dinner on Fri night at Tom & Viv's with my cousin's family, my folks, and Mary Catherine and Susan & Stephen. The next morning, we went up to Lewes for the wedding of one of my cousins on my dad's side! It was a sweet and simply backyard celebration and we were so glad we could be a part of it!

Always a favorite- the gator!

The sweetest cuddle bug.


Growing up too fast!

We are deeply missing Too-Dad at our gatherings anymore, but are so grateful we still get to see Mary Catherine.

With Cheryl, the beautiful bride, the next day.

Loving the sweets and traditions!

Many of the Metheny crew!

Such a fun day and fun weekend with so many special family!

And to cap off October, we even got a date night, thanks to our sweet neighbors for offering to watch our kids!