Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! Kaylynn is having a wonderful trick-or-treat "season" and already has a load of candy prior to the actual night of Halloween!It's a gorgeous night for the trick-or-treaters tonight - luckily right before the next winter storm (hopefully!) comes in tomorrow night!

Trip to UND

It was my turn to head up to UND to give a seminar to the Atmospheric Sciences graduate students. This time we brought the whole family. (We needed to show Kaylynn where she was going to be attending school some day!) We had a great time! The seminar went well and K liked the campus. She said "It isn't too cold here". We brought her at the right time of year! K also really enjoyed seeing a Sioux hockey game in their home arena! Here are some pictures from our fun trip.
We started the game in the upper bowl.Then we moved down to some empty seats in row 2 for the third period.
Sioux score!Hopefully we got Kaylynn hooked on UND!! Maybe we should lock in a tuition rate now?!

Winter is here!

It is a Winter Wonderland around here today!
I had to go shake the snow off the trees this morning because they were pretty weepy. Having foliage left on the trees is not good with this kind of weather, but it made for some pretty pictures!
We thought about putting the patio furniture away this weekend, but it was nice to carve pumpkins outside on Sunday when it was ~75 degrees! Now it is blanketed in snow.
A close-up of the ruler on the table - 11" so far and still snowing!
Here is the great part about this storm, even though we got nearly a foot on cold surfaces - notice the roads - no shoveling needed on the driveway!We are all happy about the snow at our house!!

Update: Of course there was snow angel making and snowman building after school! Here are a few more pictures.
And we are going to have to figure out how you report this to CoCoRaHS!

Pumpkins for our punkins!

'Tis the season for pumpkin patches. We took our annual trip on Sunday with K, James and Charlie.

It was tough work finding just the right one!
But she did it!
Happy, and very cute, kids!Not bad views either!
Off to the jumpy castles, petting zoo, etc.
Now for the fun part, carving! Mmmm, slimy guts!
Daddy had to take the pictures because he doesn't like the slime!
Masterpieces!
Kaylynn dropped hers and it cracked but we told her it just looks even more spooky now!
Now bring on the snow!

Missing Tooth!

Kaylynn lost her first tooth (on its own). She woke us up about 6am one morning saying it was bleeding. She proceeded to twist it all the way around so it was backwards, but still attached - gross! It finally fell out about 6:30am!
Here are some other pics of K and her cousins from a random visit to our house.