Halloween pictures

Anna was a peacock for Halloween.  Lukey was a cowboy and Darth Vader.  Can you tell the Anna put her lipstick on herself?

Trick or Treating at the Plymouth Pumpkin-Palooza with Leah and Juliet.  This is the annual thumbs down to Trump picture. Lukey was trying to give him bunny ears.

Luke was either wearing his sunglasses or Darth Vader mask when we left and we forgot to bring his glasses.  He was a little confused walking around and Leah helped guide him around so he wouldn't get lost.

We dressed up again for Maeve's birthday party.

The kids had really fun Halloween parties at school.

Lukey carved his own pumpkin this year!  

Lukey turns 7! (and some cat pictures)

Anna and Lukey sometimes request that we take pictures of the cats.  They're right.  We need to take more pictures of these guys.  They're pretty nice.

He is cat perfection!

Stunning.

The weekend before his birthday, Luke invited family over to eat cake with him to celebrate.  He designed his cake himself.  It had cookie dough, sprinkles and gummy bears.  It was actually really good other than the gummy bear part.  On his actual birthday we celebrated with just the 4 of us going out to dinner at Luke's choice of Buffalo Wild Wings.  

The next day, Luke had a party with friends at a bowling alley.  This was the first friends party he had.  He had a lot of fun.  There were 17 kids there so it was a little exhausting but it was worth it for Lukey because he's so special.  

Haha.  I'm noticing now that I'm looking at this picture that Luke's friend, Charlie is handing him a bag with most likely the present he got for him. I think we used that same bag to give Charlie a gift the next week.  Oops.  Oh well.  It was a nice bag.

We tried to politely get Jakob to not crash this family photo but ended up letting him in.  Afterwards, we distracted him then took another photo sans Jakob.

Back to School and Frankenmuth

The kids were so excited to go back to school.  So far so good.  Anna really likes kindergarten and Lukey seems to really like first grade.  Anna was excited to dress fancy for her first day of school. She's been talking about wearing the same dress for picture day this week.  

Last weekend we went to Frankenmuth to celebrate Pa Bob's birthday and to eat chicken.  We left plenty of room for Uncle Ben in this picture because he couldn't make it.  

Cats and cider

Oliver and Chester and Tilly.  They all got along after a few days.

Cider mill with cousins.

Flowers

This spring Tim did the wonderful task of removing our ugly bushes in the  front of the house.  We needed something to replace them so we planted a bunch of flowers.  They lasted all summer and still look great.  We took some pictures to remember them.

Tilly the cat

We got a watch Leah and Juliet's cat, Matildo while they were in Chicago.  He was a great houseguest.  The kids still talk about little Tilly all the time.  He liked to play piano.

Boulder

Last weekend, Tim and I went to Boulder for 2 nights.  It was a lovely place.  We mostly walked around and drank beer.  It was kind of a waste to take the camera because I barely took any pictures.  That's okay though.  The kids stayed in Michigan with grandparents.  They had a lot of fun.

I think this was a deer.  I might have had horns.  

Prairie dogs are very common to see.