Let the sillies begin!

For Valentine's Day this year, Heidi & I made "cards" for her school friends out of lollipops and craft foam.  When the lollipop is in your mouth, it gives you big pink lips or a twirly mustache! 

A future look, perhaps??

At our house, all of the holidays run together... I try to hide away the Halloween costumes, but they always seem to find them!

Kip loves being silly!

Kip's 4th Birthday Party Pictures

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Family Time on Fourth Lake

Every Columbus Day Weekend, we head to the Adirondacks.  Usually we stay in Old Forge, but this year we rented a cabin on Fourth Lake, half way in between Old Forge and Inlet.  For the second year in a row, we found our rental through this website, Adirondack By Owner Website,

We had a fantastic weekend!  Check out the slide show below and roll your cursor over to see captions.

Fall Harvest Festival

A few weeks ago we attended the Fall Harvest Festival at the Helmer Nature Center, here in Irondequoit. (Helmer Nature Center Website )  This was our first year attending, but I think we will go every year from now on.  Here are Heidi, Derek & Kip enjoying the live music.

I am a fan of folk music and this friendly banjo player set a wonderful atmosphere for the day.

Waiting for our turn on the hay ride.

Heidi getting her face painted.

There were so many activities for the kids to choose from.  Of course we had to buy tickets to participate, but we tried to pick out the best and then we can try the rest next year (like riding the ponies!)

Kip participated in his first Halloween Parade this year at his preschool.  His teacher, Mrs. Michelle, had a wonderful celebrating planned.  The children had their parade around the parking lot and then we all went inside to the classroom for treats and a story.

Kip's friend, Matthew, was dressed as a fire fighter, complete with a hose!

Besides Kip of course, my favorite was the boy with the fire on top of his head.  He said that he was "fire guy," but I think he looks the "Heat Miser" from "The Year Without a Santa Claus" - my favorite!  

If you have a hankering to refresh your memory, click here (Snow Miser/Heat Miser Song).

Derek was invited to join the preschoolers at their table for the special treat.  

He looks like he fits right in!

Thursday night we carved our pumpkins.  We had a bit of a rough start, each one wanting Daddy to work on their pumpkin first, but all in all it was a fun time.

When we were finished we turned out all the lights on the first floor to get the best look at our pumpkins.  

Derek's comment was, "It's so dark in here, I can't see my eyes!"

Heidi's comment was, "Derek's is scary, Kip's is funny and mine is beautiful!"

Kip's comment was, "Can we turn the lights on now??"

Heidi's Halloween Parade was today.  We have the best seats because the parade goes right past our house. Kip and I got our chairs out and waited for the kids to come...

Here they come!  Heidi is dressed up as a bride this year =)!  It is pretty windy here today so she had to hold the veil.  Tonight we are headed to my parents for trick-or-treating with cousins.  Should be fun!

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Happy Halloween!