GAG Night 2010

Nicholas (Spiderman) with Joshua (5) and Ben (2) Waggoner at GAG night. The entire Waggoner family dressed up as pirates......awesome. This picture is out of order.......long story.......

Ella as "Tinkerbell".......she's holding one of the princesses that Daddy brought her from his trip to Texas......cute!

Ella and Nicholas

Nicholas, Mae (Raggedy Ann) and Ella.....ready for GAG night!!

Mae trick-or-treating for the first time......at Miss Ann's house in our cul-de-sac

Mae Mae as "Raggedy Ann"........Mae left her wig on only about half of the time and she has a cold so getting the perfect picture was not easy.......we never could get her to smile!

Mae Mae and Ella playing the duck game

Ella playing ring toss while Mae watches closely

Will Hoerger (2 yr old friend from Bible Study, dressed as Woody from "Toy Story") with Nicholas and Ella (Ella is eating a pixie stick.....yum)

Tonight was our Great Alternative Gig (GAG) night at Chapel Rock. We got the kids all dressed up, made a quick trick-or-treastop at our neighbor Ann's house and then headed to church. The kids had a great time playing games and getting candy. Nicholas and Ella were very much into acquiring the most and best candies but Mae just wanted to wander around and take it all in. Lenn and I just looked at last year's blog and it is unbelievable how much these children have changed. Mae was just a few weeks old and I was wearing her in my sling. Ella had a pudgy little baby face and beautiful ringlet curls around her tiara. Niko looks like he's 6 inches taller this year (maybe I exaggerate......but he does look like a big kid!). My how time flies.

Waterman's Fall Festival

Ella and Daddy in the corn maze

So cute....."How tall this fall?"......Nicholas and Ella (below) are big kids!!

Nicholas posing in the corn maze

Niko speeding down the combine slide (the slide is attached to a combine.........clever!)

Ella on the combine slide

Nicholas racing against Mommy and Mae....I'm not sure who was having more fun!! Woo hoo!

Mae playing "peek-a-boo" from inside a tractor tire

We had the most fun last night at the Waterman's Fall Festival on the east side of Indianapolis. Waterman's is a pumpkin patch, farm, market, etc with lots of fall fun activities for families to enjoy. The kids played and played and then as we were preparing to leave, it was time to feed the dinosaur. They have this mechanical dinosaur who is probably 10 feet tall that growls rather loudly and eats pumpkins. It was great! Nicholas and Ella were mesmerized and Mae was slightly terrified.......she didn't totally melt down but she was shaking in Lenn's arms. What says fall like a pumpkin-eating dinosaur?

Jack-o-Lanterns!!!

"Ariel" and "Golf" jack-o-lanterns

Ella and Nicholas and their pumpkin creations

Nicholas and Daddy working hard on Niko's "golf" pattern

Ella concentrating on her "Ariel" carving

Ready to start carving!

We had a great time this afternoon carving our pumpkins for this year. We bought pumpkins last night, printed off patterns from the computer and got to work. Ella, of course, wanted to do a princess so she chose Ariel from "The Little Mermaid." Nicholas had a tough time deciding between baseball and golf but ended up with a very cool golf picture. (You can click on the jack-o-lanterns picture for a bigger image.) It felt a little strange to be carving pumpkins outside in our shorts and t-shirts. It was a beautiful day but it didn't feel much like fall.

Now we're going to roast up our pumpkin seeds.......yum!