Some Fall Fun!

Happy November to everyone!  As always, time is flying by!  We loved the month of October.  It was full of friends and fun.  

Barton's Co-Resident Keta through a fabulous 20's party.  It was fun to dress up and go out.  We were so thankful for our friends Allie and Brady who watched Miss Abigail.  (I promise, some day we will grow up and actually hire a babysitter :).  

The party was full of yummy food, good conversation, great decorations, and fabulous costumes.  I loved seeing what everyone came dressed up in.  Everyone was so creative.  I must say that this was our first cocktail party. Barton's Co-Resident was so sweet and had our favorite soda on hand since we don't drink alcohol.  People can be so thoughtful of standards even if they have different ones.

 The Cedarburg Fall Festival!  Something unique about Wisconsin compared to other places we have lived are the amount of festivals!  In the summertime it seemed like there was a festival every weekend, sometimes multiple festivals.  I love it.  We haven't been to too many yet.  It rained on the day of the festival I was most excited for, the kite festival, so we didn't go.  But out of the couple festivals that we have been to this one was the best.  Sometimes it seems like events like these are just for food vendors to make money.  But this one was really a celebration of Fall.  We had fun admiring the talents of so many crafty people, we ate some yummy food, and Abigail got to paint a pumpkin to take home!

Abigail loves craft projects.  She loves to draw, paint, color, and glue.  Here are a few projects that we did this month:

Pay close attention to the bottom picture.  Abigail learned how to draw people!  This was her first family portrait.  She did it all by herself and I love it!

For FHE we made a ghost family.    

The Ward Trunk-or-Treat was a lot of fun.  We went with the movie theme "Despicable Me".  Abigail was so excited to be "Ballerina Edith".  Abigail loved finally getting to dress-up in her tutu and collecting tons of candy.

Since it is freezing here we did trick-or-treating around the church.  Everyone got together and decorated doors.  We decorated our door with the Lofgrans and the McCoys.  We did Platform 9 3/4 from Harry Potter.

 Love these ladies!

The Medical College of Wisconsin throws an amazing Halloween Party every year.  We had so many friends going so we tagged along.  It was so much fun.  A bunch of the different departments through the school handed out candy.  They also had food and activities for the kiddos.  

One of Ab's best buddies, Jacob. 

Besides the party at the Med School we also had a party at our gym.  After the party at the gym we visited Daddy's work.  I should have taken a picture.  Everyone in his clinic dressed up as someone from Despicable Me.  They all looked great!

As you can see in the following pictures, Halloween was a success.  Between the church party, trick-or-treating at our gym, and the medical college trick-or-treats, Abigail made out like a bandit.  To save my waistline, Abigail was sweet and made little sacks with some of her candy for the 5 missionaries in our ward whom we hung out with the evening of Halloween.