Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween Super Mario Style

Halloween, in approximately 100 pictures, because the kids were so adorable I couldn't narrow down to less. Many Many MANY thanks to our dear Friend Miss leah(and Mr. Dan)  who saved Halloween by making good on our promise to Bruce that he could be Yoshi. We owe you big time. I did however, make a princess peach crown, remade a Mario hat when the one I made years ago went mysteriously missing TODAY, and also made a not entirely accurate Luigi hat.  Which only lasted for pictures anyway. Also, I got the outfit for mario at a thrift store today. So you know, I did stuff for Halloween too.....
Here you Go, there's a lot of pictures, Enjoy.
Yoshi 

front view

action pose 

rear view. I mean seriously, does this not ROCK?!!!

Princess Peach. Apparently that is her action pose.

Mama made the crown. See I sew....poorly...



Baby Luigi 
Happy Baby Luigi, see there is an L on that hat....ha ha

yoshi and baby Luigi

Mario action pose

SUPER Mario indeed

brothers

just chillin' at our mario palace

action poses
ready to go out
having "a moment" before trick or treat time
it;s ok mario baby luigi and mama love you!

trick or treat!


trick or treat, mario style! "
Hey Yoshi ring the doorbell, ok Princess Peach! Mario catch up, mom don't forget to get baby Luigi some candy, and on it went all night long. Totally worth it. 
super dad w/ baby luigi, he caught on to look cute and hold his hand out

quite the crew...


LOOT! Time to watch the great pumpkin while we eat some sugar....

Friday, October 28, 2011

Butterfly place

Since apple picking was a bust, we went to butterfly place down the street from the farm. It was 80 degrees inside and 45ish outside so my lens was fogged a great deal of the time...
he really wanted to do the scavenger hunt ;)
Miss Leah proves mama was at the butterfly place too ha ha
sneezy butterfly
me too..he had to have a picture taken too (thanks Bruce)
do butterflies wear sunglasses? (thanks Bruce)
checking off boxes for the scavenger hunt
dynamic duo 
bruce's hat made a nice landing spot
one of my favorites
leah and zion the sweety-pie 

Um, is that snow?

We tried to go apple picking one last time, but mother nature got confused....it's still October isn't it?
mama didn't think to bring gloves...

first snowball fight of the season, not quite a fair fight really...

"look mama we are throwing the snow, it's NAUGHTY, ha ha ha ha"

best buds, Harvey is a tad more prepared for snow, in my defense there wasn't any snow at our apartment...


fashionista and her cuddly baby

um, the pumpkins are covered in snow....

brand new to him winter coat, who knew he'd be modeling it so soon!

Gillian: summer hat w/ winter coat, that about sums it up

runnin' around

At least there was a sale on already picked apples....

Fall

We went to Castle Island a few weeks ago. It was quite the warm day...

Monday, October 24, 2011

Apple Cider pressing

Back a few weeks we continuted a tradition we started last year and went to our CSA farm for apple cider pressing. Fun times indeed, and we had friends who live out by the farm so they came along for the fun times!
choosing our bushel of apples

the farm which provides our weekly vegetable pick up 

girl pose

with daddy up to the farm stand

grinding the apples

pressing the apples

a lot of work

calling in the big muscles

friends!

friends some more!

donut delight

happy baby who was just weeks old last time we did this, sniff sniff
a mountain of pumpkins