Halloween 2017

The group before our neighborhood Halloween party this evening.

before trick or treating

My squid, devil and spider

Rose in her costume.

Jenna made Rose a spider costume to pin on her harness.

The Weekend

Dave and I went OUT last night!

 Pumpkin carving day

Drew's pumpkin

Jenna's pumpkin

Amelia & Ava's pumpkins

This is Drew's classroom pumpkin.  They won second place in the school pumpkin decorating contest  The kids are the spiders.  Thought it was so cool.

Amelia and Rose taking it easy

Jenna - Halloween Party

Today was Jenna's class Halloween party.  She dressed as a cat.

Here's is one of Jenna's essays hanging in the classroom today.

Charlie and Rose

Rose

Our neighbor up the street fosters abandoned puppies.  This last litter of 5 puppies was left on a street in a box hungry and dehydrated.  One puppy did not survive.  The puppy named Rosie, was in bad shape as well - severely dehydrated and having seizures.  This last litter of puppies caught our eye.... well mostly Jenna's eyes.  She spent many afternoon up at our neighbors playing with the puppies- Rosie, Truman, Star and Theo ( a chihuaha/terrier/yorkie mix)... (Patriotic themed names- that's what our neighbors do - they pick a theme to name the puppy litters).  We went to the humane society last Wednesday after school to place an application.  The employees said they would take 4 applications per puppy.  The puppies were to be placed back into the humane society last Thursday - when they were approximately 9 weeks old.  I got a call the very next morning.  That they would not be taking anymore applications, and that Rose was ours.  We would have to wait until Monday (today) to pick her up after she was spayed.  That brings me to this picture.... This morning.  Jenna and I have made our dining room - Rose's room.  We're getting ready!

Let me back track a minute... Notes of persuasion were left around the house these past few weeks by a certain someone...

And on our way home with Rose.  She doesn't feel the best right now!

We all went today!

And puppy staring at girls....

A puppy not feeling well....  Meet Rose Violet (Ava picked Violet for now) a 4.7 lbs - 9-10 week old puppy mix - our newest family member

Believe in Me -Green Flash Run Club

Ava raced in her 3rd 3K today at Carroll Manor Elementary in Adamstown, MD. Here she is before the race.

Here she is about 1/2 way through

And her finish time.  About 30 seconds better then her other races! Improvement!

Jumbo's (Year - we forget!!) It's been a yearly tradition for a long time!

We may be outgrowing the pumpkin patch....boredom creeped in for my 12 and 13 year olds

We searched high and low for the golden pumpkin.  We didn't find it..

Three large pumpkins for three girls

We went to Jumbo's Pumpkin Patch in Middletown this morning!

Jacob Daniel

16

Ava is 12!

This is from the weekend!  Ava turned 12 today!

 Ava came home from school today to find the kitchen decorated and the cake she requested... a raspberry lemon cake and reese's ice cream!

Then Ava went to her room to find her new bed furnishings... lots of cushy blankets and pillows.

Happy Birthday cake this evening!

We love you, Ava!

Weekend

Last night's sunset from our back deck.

We took a drive to Washington Monument Park today to check out South Mountain.  The girls and Dave hiked to the monument on the Appalachian Trail.  Here's Amelia and Ava running to the playground!

We went to dinner at our favorite Olive Garden tonight.. a little early celebration for Ava's 12th birthday!