Royal Spooks

We decided to go Medieval this year for Halloween. Here's my handsome knight in shining armor: (totally wish I had got him a Burger King crown)As usual, very difficult to get him to hold still to take a pic of him.
He absolutely loves his sword. He chops and stabs everything with it, including us.

My Medieval Family

And our sweet trunk. Don't you just love my castle? Mike and Tina spent Halloween with us this year and were nice enough to man our car and pass out candy so we could go trunk-or-treating with Tripp. We also checked out our downtown street of treats where there were several live "scarecrows" lying all over the place in odd poses. Randy actually sat on one of them who was lying on a bench. It was pretty interesting.

Pumpkin love

We love carving pumpkins! Here are the masterpieces for this year:

My sweet pumpkin saying, "Oh no!" -I bet you know whyTripp's shield and sword pumpkin, to match his awesome knight costume.
And Randy's spooky ghost!
Tera, pretty sure my pumpkins are better than yours ;p! Now I must issue a pumpkin contest. Everyone needs to post their almost-as-cool-as-mine carved pumpkins. Good Luck!

Trekkies

About a month ago, Karebear, Gavitron, and Reesey piecey came to visit and we were able to go to Northwest Trek with them. We had fun and got to see plenty of animals. This pic -they're standing in front of the bear exhibit. But you can't really see the bear in the background.

Here he is taking a bath
Daredevil Tripp
Pickle decided he was too tired to walk. So Karen got a good workout pushing him around.

All the trekkies:

More trekkies

We had to wait for this bison to move so we could keep going. He was a beast!

I love that they are sitting in a box that says, "Educational toys" A little ironic, don't you think?

We love when family come to visit! Can't wait to see you again!

My tiny dancer

Tripp absolutely loves to dance. Any noise that he hears that even remotely sounds like music, he'll dance to. His newest style is tippy toe dancing (?) don't know where he got that from. He loves to sing to the "boom, boom" song. Notice how well he dances until he discovers Randy with the camera in the corner. The only thing he loves more than dancing is the camera.

Weird Effects

When I dressed Tripp for church this morning I thought he looked like a cowboy. So I put on his hat and then realized I left the camera in the car overnight. So the camera was cold and it was warm inside, what does that equal? Foggy pics! I actually think they turned out pretty neat, even though it wasn't the intended outcome. So if you're trying to find new effects for pics, just leave your camera in your car during a cold night!Yeah, he really wasn't in the mood for his picture to be taken, hence the sad/mad face.

Perks

The perks of being a cell phone salesman.................

Plenty of dummy phones to go around!Now we'll see if he'll leave our cell phone alone.

Leavenworth-been there, done that

We decided to rock the Leavenworth Marathon this weekend. There were 1600 participants this year -the most they've ever had. We got lucky with nice sunny weather this year versus the rain we ran in last year.We weren't feeling as ambitious as we were last year when Randy and I ran the half marathon. We ran the relay marathon which consisted of 6 legs of 4 to 4.5 miles each leg. Randy got us rolling with the first leg. He had to run up a hill and back down. (He's in the yellow shirt and blue socks, nice combo)Tera (my sis) had the second leg. Which I think is the most beautiful one to run because it goes right through a park and along the river.I hit up the third leg-the shortest leg at only 4 miles. We had a wrist sweatband as a baton to pass off to each other and after it had been on two sweaty arms I put it in my hair. Randy took this pic right as I was taking it out to pass it to Nick.We were very glad Nick came at the last minute to run with us so we wouldn't have to run multiple legs. He ran the fourth leg which is the same hill Randy had to run (we went around the same course twice). Nick wanted to beat Randy's time so he started sprinting at the end and beat his time by a minute.My mom, the birthday girl, ran the fifth leg (pretty one through the park). And we were so busy cheering for her that we forgot to get a pic of her running. so we took a pic of her at the aid station right after.Joann (mom's friend) finished us off with the sixth leg. Here's a pic of her with our finishing time.And of course we had to take a pic of all of us at the end. Tripp and Brielle were our mini-marathon support team. Way to go Team CHAOS!

It's impossible to go to Leavenworth without going to the hat store and the pretzel taste shop. If you've been to Leavenworth, you know what I'm talking about. Here's some of the sweet hats we found.



Randy was able to talk Nick into trying the super hot sauce at the pretzel shop. This was the result:
Coughing, tears, and the need to find something to put the fire out.

We also went to Coldstone for birthday ice cream for mom. We found out that Brielle is crazy about ice cream. She would scream until there was ice cream on her spoon to eat.
Another Ice cream shop We also decided we needed to eat some brats. Nick and Randy are sporting the jackets we got from the race.We stayed in a cabin that had this awesome large chess set.
There were also farm animals there to look at. Tripp actually said "bock, bock" to the chickens. -first time he's ever said that. and the non-photogenic llama.
Tripp and Brielle ready for bed at the cabin

We had a lot of fun this year and look forward to next year.