Boo at the Zoo

Halloween is fast upon us, as we've already been through two Halloween events this past week!  This year Brooke is Cinderella, I am Prince Charming, Monica is the Fairy Godmother, and Winry is Gus Gus!  We got all dressed up for the ward trunk or treat on Friday, and a special congratulations to Monica who got our Halloween costumes ready before the trunk or treat this year, without us having to be late!  There were carnival games, and we all had a great time and got plenty of candy.

On Tuesday the kids were playing with some animal masks after they got ready for swim lessons.  They were doing their animal sounds, and Winry was REALLY into it.

Winry has been taking care of baby dolls recently.  I think she's been learning from Brooke.  When I came home from work she was rocking her baby for a nap, which quickly became singing songs, but was always very cute!

Winry has started singing all kinds of songs, which is great!  She started singing "I'm a little coo-coo clock" this past week and dancing.  Also, speaking of dancing.  This girl LOVES to dance!  At the first beat she'll start rocking herself all over.  I love it!

On Friday, Monica finished up our costumes.  Here's Winry once we got her ears and hat attached to the hood of her jacket!  She looks so cute.  This is my best picture because she was moving in the other ones and was a little blurry.

And here's Cinderella sharing a dance with her prince!

And moments before when she was visited by her fairy godmother!

Saturday was a pretty full day.  I woke up and hopped right onto the treadmill for my run since it was still going to be dark for a few hours.  Then we all got ready quickly and headed to the allergist so Monica could get some allergy shots.  On our way out the girls sat on these chairs.

And where did we go from there?  To the ZOO!  It was crazy busy and packed, and to be honest I want to go again sometime soon to be able to enjoy the animals and stuff more.  That said the lions were all out in full force, and looked awesome!  This is not a view I am used to!  Also, the baby was out running around too.  I don't think he's in this picture, but he was running around and his dad was following him.  Don't worry man, I get it.

The tahi were also right up at the front of their enclosure.  This is one of my favorite animals, because the only place they are in the wild is in Mongolia, and when my parents came to pick me up we went out to the nature preserve where they are and saw them in the wild!  They are the only wild horse in the world.

The zoo was crazy because they were doing boo at the zoo!  This means there were some extra things at the zoo, like princesses, jugglers, and trick or treat candy stations.  There was also this ring toss game with inflatable donuts.  The kids had a lot of fun, and the festivities were a good excuse to get to put on costumes that we otherwise wouldn't wear this year (Winry was Pikachu, which we really wanted to use again, and Brooke was Doc McStuffins).  Brooke was also sick on Thursday and Friday which meant the kids spent a lot of time in the house, so it was also good to get out and burn some energy.

On the way home Monica pretended to eat a Lamborghini... real mature Monica......

I told her to! :)

When we came home I had a REALLY bad headache, so I took some Excedrin.  Winry took a nap and I started doing some work in the basement tiling the shower.  Brooke (and Winry once she woke up) came down to watch and play.  We soon headed to Costco to do some grocery shopping, and then when we got come the neighbors on both sides were out playing, so we brought out Brooke's bike and joined them.  This quickly turned into a walk around the block with a stop to check in on the flamingos.  By the time we continued on they were all well fed and felt very loved!  When we got home we made a HUGE leaf pile!  Almost all of the leaves have fallen off of both of our trees, so there were lots to rake up.

We all had fun jumping into the pile, and the pile was definitely big enough for me to jump in too!

Winry quickly got buried!

And Brooke thought that looked fun enough she'd do it too!  We had a lot of fun playing in the back yard all the way until dinner time!

After dinner we put the kids to bed, and then Monica went to baby sit and I headed to the basement to work on tiling the shower!  I got the floor in, the little splash guard entrance thing, and the first row around the bottom.  That's all I wanted to get done so that it could all dry before I do the rest of the walls.  I think everything looks nice, and hopefully I'll be able to get it all done over the next week.  I'm hoping to do an additional row each night.  That's the last big project for finishing the basement.  After that we'll need to do some touch ups on the molding, and paint the doors, but we're definitely on the home stretch!

When I woke up this morning I still had my headache from yesterday, so that was pretty fantastic...  Monica and I were both quite tired because we didn't end up going to bed until much later than usual.  The girls were also both quite tired today, and they are both up taking naps right now, so I guess I should be advantageous and go take a nap myself!  Have a great week!