Kevin&Stephanie

Happy Halloween and Reformation Day! We didn't actually do a whole lot, but Aundrea had fun playing in different costumes. Last Thurday we took Aundrea to Ionia's little Halloween event. It was basically trick-or-treating in downtown shops, games, and lots of chili dogs. Aundrea was a garden gnome, and we went in our medieval costumes. We felt a little silly, because very few of the adults were in costumes.....oh well. Many young boys looked envious of Kevin sword in his back-scabbard. Aundrea is a cute gnome Riding her horse - a gift from Grandpa and Grandma Anderson. Fairy ....and a princess . Did I mention she loves her horse? She likes the real ones too. :) We had a big bowl full of candy (good candy, too!) and 0 trick-or-treaters. Guess who's eating the chocolate instead?

I had no idea Aundrea did this, but Kevin captured it on camera. SO sweet. :)

It has been a lovely autumn so far here in West Michigan. The weather for the past week has been truly amazing. As you can see, we're dressed more for summer than fall lately. Despite the summery weather, it definitely is fall. I have attempted to decorate seasonally by displaying some of our corn stalks and pumpkins. Our mums are huge and bright. The bad thing is, our numerous walnut trees have been dropping absurd amounts of walnuts at all hours of the day or night. The thunk of a walnut hitting the roof has been known to wake us up at night! The walnuts laying all over the ground also present more than a little fall hazard. This is what walnuts look like when they come off the tree: This wheelbarrow-full is only a small portion of what's left! Aundrea sometimes helps pick up walnuts....(do you see all those walnuts on the ground around her?) Aundrea also loves climbing onto the lawn-mower (parked, of course) Last night we "shelled" some walnuts (we took the green