carved pumpkins

carving pumpkins

ruby's 10th birthday

we saved her big gift for tonight-a mini-ipod, which she was pretty excited about. followed by her favorite dessert pavlova.

goregous fall day & pumpkins

today was a warm sunny day so we took the kids with michael and rachel to a pumpkin patch. we took a hay cart behind draft horses out to the field to pick our pumpkins.

pumpkin patch

ruby's slumber party

saturday night ruby had 7 girls come over. we took the bus downtown to see "high school musical 3" and then took the bus home, after singing through downtown. they slept (we all slept) 6 hours. never again. famous last words.

pumpkin prowl at the zoo

friday night ruby and owen went to a halloween party, so we took gus and avery to the zoo for a pumpkin prowl. many carved pumpkins and kids in costume.

the faces of mr. gussy

fall light & the kids

fall afternoon in volunteer park

gus + monte

lief and monte came out to watch the game. monte was enthralled with gus' new remote control car.

exhausted gus

after playing hard at his party, gus fell asleep at ruby's game under all the coats.

ruby's team + parents

ruby's soccer game

the proud papa

or you could say tired. three birthday parties down, one to go.

avery + gus' birthday party

gus had two friends over (who were glued to ruby the whole time) and avery had three friends over for a little fiesta. we went to the park and the "big" kids played soccer while ruby and i took the little kids to the playground.