Fun Fall Festivities

First, our fallen leaves - not sure they're a"fun" fall activity, but there aren't many things I love more than crispy fallen leaves under my feet on a cool fall afternoon. These are our 13 bags of leaves we picked up just in time for the big snow storm. This picture was taken 2 hours after we filled the 13 bags...we now have 20 bags that we are slowly puting in our garbage can when it has room. I absolutely love our shadey trees, I just didn't realize how much work they would require in the fall (Thanks Kev for doing the most of it!:).Here are my cute girls in their costumes - a frog and a jack-o-lantern. Emery had to wear her Ariel princess shoes for the picture - she is obsessed with them! I just love my sweet Jane - she is always smiling at me and is very mild-mannered - who can resist those dimples!?

It has been fun to watch Emery get into the holidays - she's already really excited about our neighbor's display of Christmas decorations and lights. On Halloween, Kevin and I both took turns taking her around to a few houses. She really had a good time, but when we ran into some of her friends, she just wanted to go play with them. So she only made it to a few houses for candy and unfortunately the kids she played with after raided her bucket and she was only left with a few pieces...great friends, eh? Oh well, but this is probably the last year she won't notice:). One of our favorite things was hearing her say "spooky" - her version - "sperky". Pretty cute!

Here Emery's ready to hop and Jane is doing her crunches - she's going to have a 6 pack soon!

Typical Lundgreen pumpkin - the "Y"

Our neighbors helped us serve doughnuts and hot chocolate out of our garage to trick-or-treaters on halloween. I think we had about 50 kids and parents come by. It was really fun to get to know a few of our neighbors a little better and a couple young teenagers came by a couple of times - I could tell they really liked it:) You can also see Kevin is wearing shorts and a t-shirt - Halloween was unseasonably warm - I think the high was 76 that day!

Here's our pumpkin-man...his head started to rot on Halloween and leaked pumpkin juice all over his body - pretty grose, but it added a nice touch for the evening - it made him look more scary!

This is the invitation I made for a halloween party we invited neighbors to - it's a severed finger...hee hee hee.
These are some of our new neighbors who came to our party. My friend Janna was an oven 'cause she had a "bun in the oven" - her husband was the baker:) We had a great time playing the candybar game and halloween scatagories. We had guessing jars and watched a sperky Alfred Hitchcock episode. ooohh... (yes, I was a wench again...I need to work on my creativity)
Happy Fall everyone! It won't last much longer - so let's enjoy every minute!