October - Hayward, Nana and Pop and Halloween

We had a fun October! We started off the month with a visit to Hayward to see the fall foliage. We were a little late for peak up there, but the drive was beautiful. And late for peak means there were LOTS of leaves on the ground. Braenna was terrified, Mikaiya however had a blast jumping and playing in the leaves!

We also had a new milestone with Braenna. She finally got over her fear of the Ranger! She has been terrified of anything "loud" for quite some time, so this was a great thing for her to get over. Hopefully it sticks into next year!

October also brings the fun of Halloween. This year was our first Halloween in our new neighborhood. The girls went to the Halloween party at our gym on the Saturday before Halloween. Here is our little angel and Strawberry shortcake:

We carved pumpkins and the girls also painted pumpkins this year. They had a lot of fun and lucky for us, the weather cooperated and we were able to keep the paint mess outside!

We also had the fun of Nana and Pop coming to visit. It was a little chilly, but we wanted to give them a little bit of a taste of Madison, so we went downtown and visited Monona Terrace...it was COLD!! But, we still got a picture!! We also saw the capitol and ate at a good old fashioned WI restaurant where we introduced them to cheese curds! Yum!!

They also got to stay for Halloween. Nana walked with us and the girls while Pop helped with candy duty at the house...Pop was quite busy with the over 150 trick or treater's we had!! Quite the change from our old neighborhood where we were literally begging the kids to take our candy!!

Here are the rest of our October photos: Click here for photos!