Tuesday, October 7, 2008

What a fun day

The weather was perfect, the kids were happy, the mom was happy, and fall is on the way! A formula for a good day.

We went to the Dallas Arboretum this morning for Tiny Tot Tuesday with Matt's mom aka "Granna." What an awesome place! We all loved being outdoors and the kids had a blast at the pumpkin house, hay bale maze, pumpkin patch, petting zoo, storytime, and LOTS of pumpkins. We also spent some time walking around the rest of the arboretum and got some pretty views of White Rock Lake and had lunch outside at the cafe. Such a perfect day for a morning outdoors! Thanks for all of your help Annie - it made it SO much easier and much more fun!

Oliver and Granna at the pumpkin house


Gabriella practicing her standing - with the pumpkin's help


Checking out the animals - Gabriella made sure to "bark" at all of them... her noise for all animals


My darlings at the pumpkin patch!

Then tonight we celebrated National Night out with a neighborhood block party. We had a bounce house, cookie decorating, face painting, slides, and food! So much fun and great to meet some new neighbors and catch up with some others! Gabriella did so good getting her face painted, but Oliver turned down the offer with an emphatic "no!" He did get a giraffe tatoo though - his favorite animal. I had fun dressing them up in their Halloween clothes and they had a blast being outside in the cool weather!

Mommy and her kitty cat


Landen, Elana and Oliver (our neighbor friends)

3 comments:

Meve & Co. said...

so sorry for my lack of response...I will email asap!=)

ASC said...

I am so glad you had a great time! You had the perfect weather for the Arboretum! We just loved it, too! Cute photos! See you soon...

Emily Rocha said...

wow those are some adorable pictures! I love the one where they're both smiling!! and Ella's facepainting! and Oliver's skeleton hoodie is awesome! :) I have the cutests niece and nephew EVER! see yall next weekend :)