Our princess graduates

Our beautiful Elisabeth graduated. We found this dress last summer and honestly, can you imagine her in anything else? 

Pictures taken at Sendall Gardens in our neighborhood and Campbell Valley Park.

 

Extreme Makeover

 

It's been a long time since I've done a photoshoot with just David. So we decided to head to Sendall Gardens. And here is my boy:

And then the next day, David headed to a barber, so we needed to do another photoshoot.

Doesn't matter if I'm even thinking about the chop, I still have to pause every time I look at him to realise the hair is gone. 

But isn't he handsome?

It's been a little over three years since David had his hair cut, and each time he has donated his hair. I have no idea what the process is for making wigs, but I really hope that his gorgeous curls get to be preserved. 

We've been frequenting Roxann's Hats in Fort Langley. This time David bought this trilby. I'm looking forward to the era of hats returning. 

More Halloween Shenanigans

 And of course, I need to post the Halloween costumes.

Ruben the wizard.

All three of the monkeys.

And a better look at them.

Lizzie (Ted from Bill & Ted) and her friends.

Halloween Shenanigans

In an effort to keep things more like they've always been, we planned a Halloween Extravaganza. 

We began by making pizza.

We tried a new crust recipe this time. I haven't blogged about this yet, but David took foods in grade 12 and learned a lot about working with doughs. So I'm not allowed to roll out the pizza dough anymore. It ain't good for the crust.

Anyway, once we'd made our pizzas, we could carve our pumpkins. This year we picked up pumpkins at Save On foods. Gotta love the cheap prices compared with the pumpkin patch.

One of my kids hates touching pumpkin guts. 

The other one....

Andrew carved an ant.

Liz did Bat Man.

And of course, I like to go weird with my pumpkins.

Scarecrow Crawl at Arts Nursery

Surprise, surprise! Elisabeth asked me this weekend if/when we were going to visit a pumpkin patch this year. To be honest, the thought hadn't really occurred to me. You know I'm operating at less than optimum brain power when I forget about seasonal activities!

Pumpkin patches have become quite expensive, so I knew we weren't going to do a traditional pumpkin patch, but I thought we could probably go wander around a local nursery and get some of the experience. 

Arts Nursery in Port Kells does an awesome Scarecrow Crawl, we've been visiting for years. It gets really busy but we decided to chance it.

The boys were very obliging about posing as Barbies.

Imagine my delight when I realized the kids had unwittingly coordinated! I insisted on photos, immediately!

And then we wandered around looking at the scarecrow displays. Here are a few of my favourites:

Arts Nursery does some amazing things. Their social media is fantastic and I learn a lot from watching their educational reels. But one of my favourite things they do is this Pumpkin Tree. Here's a little story about how it came to be.

There was live music so we listened and took some more pictures.

And just as we were trying to selfie a family picture, a lovely man asked if he could take our picture.

Great idea to go Liz! I'm glad we didn't miss out on this seasonal fun!