Happy Halloween!

Well Halloween started off badly cause I got word from the doctor that I was too sick to trick-or-treat because the cold weather would aggravate my horrible chest cold...but the weather was soooo nice this evening that it was a last minute decision to get dressed and visit a few of our neighbors!

I had the princess costume as a backup in case Dorothy didn't work out - I think it was definitely a better choice! 

I had a GREAT time walking down the block and knocking on everyone's door! I even said "treeet treeet"!! It ended up to be a perfect Halloween!

Here I am after the festivities with my tootsie pop - LOVED it!! I was the happiest girl in the world while eating this.....

I stopped in the middle of trick-or-treating to check out the goods...

I held onto my treat bucket the entire time!!!

OK! We know we're ready when the butler is standing on the front porch ready to greet everyone..

Hope everyone had a HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEEEN!

Dear Grammama & Grampie...

Thank you so much for my Halloween card! I loved getting actual mail today and opening it up all by myself!

Zoo Boo

We have been planning to go to the Zoo Boo for so long now - I was so excited this past weekend that it was finally here! The Zoo Boo is a family friendly event that the Detroit Zoo hosts each year that includes a 1/2 mile walk around the decorated zoo complete with treat stations and pumkin carvings everywhere!

The expectation is that you stay on the path with everyone so as you can imagine...it was somewhat difficult for me! I am going as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz this year but it was pretty cold and my shoes didn't fit so the costume didn't really work out !!!

I don't like holding hands...
Wow..inside the "haunted" reptile house
GOOOO SPARTANS!! Daddy missed the 4th quarter of the game for me!



Before the Zoo Boo, we decorated our pumkins for the front porch..this is the most of my costume you will see!

And finally....last years Halloween pics!

Playdate at Enzo's

Friday was a fun day! We went to a playdate at Enzo's house! Marianna, Paige, and Enzo certainly know how to have a good time! Of course, most of my time was spent with the apples :)

Enzo was in a great mood!
All of us attempting to get a picture...
aapppple..


I LOVE squatting pictures!!!

Picture Day

Last week was picture day at school! I was going for the plaid-skirt look! We don't get the actual proofs back for a while so hopefully they turn out cute!

Shark Fishing

Kaitlyn,

Thought you would enjoy this video of us catching a baby shark!

Aunt Katharine and Uncle Peter

A perfect fall day

I have seen so many pictures of kids in leaves this week that I decided to bust out the rake and make an attempt at our own leaf pile. Kaitlyn did not particularly enjoy the leaves which is why I had to throw a toy in the middle of the pile just to get her into it! This is the only picture I got in the leaf pile - oh well...maybe next year?

Pretty good for a self portrait?


She enjoyed our walk much better..

Grammama!

Grammama stopped by before we left. What a perfect picture!!!

COSTA RICA!

Well we're back! Although we were only gone for a few days, it sure felt like a long vacation. Our trip to Costa Rica was incredible! It was everything we could have hoped for. The hotel was amazing and did not disappoint us. The service was great and the local Costa Ricans were very friendly and hospitable (although there was definitely a language barrier so who knows what they really thought?!). We experienced the awe of swinging through the jungle on the ziplines and monkey sight seeing too! 

Following are the pictures from our weekend:

The first night we didn't know what to eat so we decided to sample a variety of appetizers starting with a jalepeno sushi roll - sooo good!

It rained for the first 24 hours but cleared up nicely the 2nd day! The rain actually added to our experience so we didn't mind it!
Pics of our room..

The Four Seasons is on Costa Rica's Papagayo peninsula..here we are headed onto the peninsula..

Notice the foggy picture? It was pretty humid...which is why you will never see my hair down!

Our first monkey spotting!!! It was amazing to see the wild monkeys swinging through the trees. There were so many of them too including babies just learning how to jump and swing. It was hard to get good pictures but here is my attempt...

As soon as we decided on Costa Rica, everyone started talking about doing the canopy tour..which is literally swinging through the jungle above the trees and waterfalls on a single zip line. It was AWESOME!! There were about 10 other people with us. Here are some of the pictures..

Yes..you started from this small rope and jumped off into thin air headed down!!

Getting harnessed..

Ready to go!
See the rope??

Back safely on the hotel property..

We innocently ventured down to the beach to take some pictures and the "friendly" beach attendant pointed far down the beach and said something about 1000 stairs leading to another beach that had black sand. We kind of blew him off but decided to walk down that way just to see what he was talking about. Once we saw the stairs, it was like they were calling our name. Needless to say, about an hour and 1000 steps later, we arrived at an amazing beach that did have black sand! We certainly sweated off our dinner from the previous night!! Here are some pictures from what we now call "our hike"...

The white sand beach..
The black sand beach..

Back at the hotel..hanging poolside

Check out the plunge pool in the spa! The suggestion is to plunge yourself up to your neck 6 times starting with the cool pool and moving over to the heated pool for a spine tingling sensation...well Jim took the suggestion and plunged all the way into the cool pool only to come very close to a severe heart attack because of the temperature of the water...





All sorts of crustacians and claws framed in the lobby
feathers...


The best part of the trip was coming home and going into Kaitlyn's room the next morning where she jumped up and down and repeatedly yelled "mama! dada! mama! dada!" We sure did miss our little girl.....