Daddy-Daughters Date & Cardinals

The Magic House celebrated the Cardinals World Series victory by giving free admission to anyone that showed up with a red shirt. I decided to take the girls and give Celeste a little break from the hectic life of a stay at home mom and have a little daddy-daughters date. Brindi loves going to the Magic House and we always have a blast. Brooke and Brindi played well together in the car. Brindi's favorite was shopping at the general store which has been closed every other time we have gone. Overall it was a great date. GO CARDINALS!

Rapunzel

Halloween

We headed out on the scary night of October 31 to find us some candy or be suckered into doing tricks. Only the night would tell which side would win. We started out going with Brindi's friend Aiden and as you can tell the race up the street was the trick of the partnership. Later we headed out with some other friends, Micah and Kiernan, and hit their neighborhood which was full of candy! It was a pretty fun night. Brindi has been talking about Halloween for a long time and now her focus is on Turkeys!

Pumpkin Carving

It was a lot of fun carving pumpkins this year, mainly because of Brooke. When Brindi was that age and still today she does not want to have anything to do with the pumpkin guts. As you can tell by how she decorated her pumpkin. But Brooke, she had not hesitation getting dirty and jumping right into the guts. It is a lot of fun watching the different personalities of out little girls.

Trunk or Treat

We headed over to the church for the annual Halloween festival and trunk or treat activity. Each room was assigned to an auxiliary for some crazy and scary fun. After the festival everyone headed out to parking lot for the trunk or treat. Brindi was a princess this year. It was a long process to change her mind from a mean witch to a nice witch and finally a princess but we were successful. She is a funny girl! Brooke was a pumpkin this year and won third place for the best costume. It was a great night and the kids obviously loved all the candy.

AZ

Well................ Brin, Brooke, and I made a little escape the last two weeks and went to AZ. It has been a while since I have been able to help with shipping, which is they reason why we headed out. It was so fun to be there. It was sad not to get to round up in Alpine, but it was still fun and interesting, especially with two little girls. I think GrandDan, Virginia, Grammy, and Poppop got the raw end of the deal since they were the ones mostly watching the girls anytime they couldn't ride with us. Brindi's favorite part was riding the four wheeler with GrandDan and Brooke ABSOLUTELY loved the cows, horses, Jag and Sadie (the dogs), she would laugh and squeal every time she saw them and if she was crying all we had to do was ask her where Jag and Sadie were. Brindi had a ball playing with Taryn and Bryant and wasn't sure what to do with herself after they left. Uncle Sterling spoiled her the whole time by watching whatever she wanted and taking for her on a ride on the four wheeler. Brin also got pretty good at riding Shorty by herself and when she rode with me she didn't really complain except she did say after riding for a couple of hours that her legs and bum hurt. She also spent two days at school with Grammy. She had so much fun and the kids in the class were so nice, especially the little boys that have little sisters. They made sure she had fun and that no one hurt her :)

Brooke and Shorty

Sterling and Brooke

Brin and the cattle truck

Brin at Grammy's School drawing a bat for Halloween

Brin and the boys at recess

Brin and Shorty

Brin and the new baby calf

Bry, Brin and Taryn eating lunch on the horse trailer

Brin and Bry playing in the water

Taryn and Brin playing Rapunzel

Bry, Brooke, Brin, and Taryn playing in the bath

Brooke at the park

Brin, Brooke, and I with our haunted gingerbread house

Brin and her "scary" face

Grammy and Brin

LU Homecoming

It was homecoming week at Lindenwood this past weekend. We ventured out for the parade and Brindi was sure happy we did.

The theme was "blazing the trail west," so all the floats had a western theme.

This is the Campus Y float. I am the faculty advisor for this student organization.

Check out that basket of candy!

We were at the beginning of the parade and so Brindi was spoiled. It also helped I knew several of the students but either way, Brindi was a happy child!

Counting out all her candy. She only had a couple pieces of gum and said she couldn't eat anymore until she counted all her candy. I think we are going to pass on Halloween this year...she obviously has enough candy. However, I doubt think she will let us skip it. She has been talking about Halloween for a couple months now.

Pumpkin Patch

Friday afternoon we decided to take a trip to the pumpkin patch in Chesterfield. We went with our neighbors who have a little boy about the same age as Brindi. Most of the big pumpkins were not picked yet and they had a lot of rows but apparently no where near as many as they will later in October. It was a fun day for the kids though as they ran all over the place looking at pumpkins of multiple colors, gourds, scarecrows, old tractors and fire engines, corn mazes, a haunted shop, farm animals, and what Brindi was probably more excited for three playgrounds.

Our cute little scarecrow.

Playing on the old tractor.

Pumpkins as big as Brooke.

Playing on the old fire truck.

Livin the life in St. Louis.

Brindi picking out her pumpkin.

Brindi taking a picture of her weird dad.

Brindi running with the other kids.

Ride that pumpkin!

Fitting in with all the other baby pumpkins.

Wishing she was back on the farm.

Not fitting in with all the gourds.

Scarecrow Bob and Brindi.

Children of the Korn.

Our sweet skeleton.

The mastermind, Death.

Peaches

Right before one of my great friends/running partner Rachel moved we decided to do one last play date together. Out in New Melle there is a little farm that has a few different orchards. So the last week they were doing peaches we headed on over. The people were so nice and gave all of the girls a peach to eat (just to get them hooked I think). Brin had a great time picking and had to have her own box. Lucky for me she was more interested in all the "good ones" on the ground and not on the trees. They were some of the best peaches I've ever tasted, so I was glad we had enough left over to get a few jars of peaches.

Brin picking/eating peaches

Brin and I

Kami, Kayla, and Brindi

Brooke and the peach tree

Brooke finally getting to eat some...she absolutely loved them

My little canning helper