Halloween Weekend

This past weekend was pretty busy, as usual for our family. We put a lot of activities into a few days. My parents came down from Iowa to visit Thursday - Saturday so they got to have some fun Abby time.


Here is a picture of Grandma Papke helping Abby put together her Mr. Potato Head pumpkin. It was a little more difficult to get the pieces in than we originally thought. Abby is already wearing part of her duck costume and it was only 3 pm.
Still working on the face.
Here's the finished product. Abby's is the pirate and mine is the traditional carving. She wasn't too excited about helping me clean out the pumpkin, it was "yucky".
Here is the duck ready to go with her bucket. She had enough of the picture taking as was ready to go.
Heading off to Barb and Frank's house, our first stop for the evening.

Here Abby is checking out her "loot". She actually hasn't eaten any of it yet, just likes to inventory it. She likes to hand it out and then get it back in her bucket.
The duck got a little too hot in her outfit so here is how she finished up the rest of the night. She would run to the door to check out the kids in their costumes, but some were just a little too scary and she would run right back.
The next evening Tim had a bachelor party with our friend Jeremy who is getting married next weekend to Tamica. So the men went to the comedy club and all the ladies who were on kid duty went to Bonker's so the kids could run around. Here is a picture of Abby playing "Whack a Mole", but with sharks. I think she was more entertained by the lights and music. We played this game quite a bit. She actually did hit the sharks all on her own. She was quite proud of herself.

Still whacking.....probably for the 10th time that night.
Here Abby is trying to show Landon how it's done. He was more content to just hit the one on the corner with his hand.

We also made some good progress with the basement as well. Tim took a few days off last week to be there for the ceiling installation. My Dad helped Tim get the tile cut and laid out for the bathroom and entryway, and it was grouted last night. We also got the larger rooms painted with their final coat after the ceiling was put in. Our doors and trim were delivered on Friday so we have most everything in the house, we just need to put it up prior to the carpet installation on Friday. We'll have more pictures to share when we get a little farther. Things are a little cluttered trying to get everything done in a short period of time. It should be a exhausting week for Tim and I but then it will all be done.

6 Month Update - I had my 6 month appointment on Thursday and everything is still moving along normally. The baby was moving a lot so we would hear the heartbeat a little bit and then have to chase it again. Next month is the glucose test so that should be fun.