St. Louis

Right around...ohh...a month ago, we visited the folks in St. Louis. It was a blast, but let me tell ya....don't send a bunch of Arizona wimps to St. Louis in the fall! We froze our little butts off. We did check the weather before we left, but it's a little hard to register what high's in the 50's feel like when you haven't been below 90 in 6 months. I think we each brought one or two pairs of socks and one pair of long pants. Poor Mom, we whined like crazy and made her turn her heater on!
Besides going just for the sake of seeing everyone, we also were there to help rip out the carpet in the basement and put in some pretty laminate. I don't think we ever took a picture of the rooms completely finished! We also played in the rain (there was plenty of it) which Eva insisted was snow. I'm guessing because it did NOT feel like any rain she'd ever seen.

We also:

went to the zoo. The goat exhibit was by far her favorite part, go figure.

an awesome pumpkin patch

and did a practice run through of Eva's birthday. (Note the chocolate cake I made from scratch, which was possibly the most technical recipe I have ever attempted! Hopefully this makes up for the wacky hot pink Elmo cupcakes I made for her birthday)
We had so much fun and are missing you guys! Not so much the cold though. :)

Happy Halloween

We had a fabulous Halloween hangin out with the fam in Tucson. UNFORTUNATELY our little chick (see below) decided not to take a nap 2 days in a row before hand, so come Halloween night when we said, "let's go get some candy!" she said "BATH." (meaning...put me to bed) I tell ya....you go through all those sleepless nights, knowing that it'll be worth it, because if nothing else.....you get to raid their Halloween stash. Aaand then they'd rather go to bed than trick-or-treat. I've never felt so ripped off. It's a good thing she's so cute.....

Thanks for the costume idea Martha...you're the best.