October fun

I've mentioned this before in past years, how amazing it is that one simple holiday about dressing up and getting candy has morphed into a days upon days of activities for families.

I've already blogged about several events, and here are a few more things we've done this month...

Stacey and the girls carved two big pumpkins - well, Stacey and Cora gutted and carved them. Violet watched. I love the Hello Kitty and owl designs they chose.

At Violet's preschool party on Wednesday, one of the parents is a photographer and brought in his camera and equipment. We all went home with professional photos, a group shot and an individual (which I photographed below; I didn't want to mess with the scanner).

Violet wanted to wear her Cinderella dress again, and was happy to have me put her hair up, princess-style. She also wore Cora's Tinkerbell necklace, because "Tinkerbell made the Cinderella movie." She wanted to wear her "loud shoes," the blue plastic dress-up Cinderella heels, but thankfully agreed that her glittery "real" shoes were a better choice.

Violet also was able to dress up at Mom2Mom on Tuesday, and go trick-or-treating through the church office. On this day, she chose her Ariel dress and slippers. She wanted her Ariel plastic shell necklace, because it gives her Ariel powers, but we couldn't find it.

In what has become an October tradition for me and Stace, we had a date at Magic Mountain, courtesy of the Witch.

My mom has found her niche, and the crowds love her act. This year, she added to her costume contacts that glowed blue in the black light.






We found our friend Jen, who also was checking out Fright Fest, with her older son. We made a group trip onto the Revolution roller coaster before calling it a night.