Zoo with Grandma and Grandpa

Grandma and Grandpa came for a visit, and of course we had to take them to the zoo!

Fall

I've gotten behind with my blogging, mostly because I've switched laptops finally and the pictures to go on the blog are on the old computer and haven't been transferred yet. But these are a few that were taken this morning. We were out enjoying a lovely fall morning.

Halloween

Halloween was so much fun. It's really great to live in a neighborhood where there are so many young kids. Stian had a blast. He had a really good day in general. His teachers put on quite the Halloween party from what he told me. The theme was mad scientist.

Then the evening started with our neighbors across the street serving up chili and hotdogs and beer for the whole neighborhood. We didn't eat much - well, Kris had some - but we went over and mingled with the neighbors and the kids had fun running around. Then people started wandering back to their houses to get into position and the kids went a bit crazy.

It was fun. Stian and I went around trick or treating up and down our street and Silje and Kris sat on the front steps and handed out candy. When Stian was done trick or treating we all sat on the steps for another half hour or so handing out candy. We had a lot of kids come. Maybe next year we'll have to count how many. We did not run out of candy though, so that is good. We actually have quite a bit left.

I'm not sure why Stian looks so grumpy in some of these pictures. He really wasn't. He was having fun. Maybe he just didn't want to get his picture taken.

Fall

A cool front came through and it feels like fall!

Time to carve the pumpkin.

It was kind of funny, so as soon as we finished cleaning up our front yard, suddenly a bunch of neighbor kids showed up. I think our yard is more welcoming and happy looking now. Or maybe they could just see the yard. i'm not sure what it is, but it's been fun for Stian. He's been playing quite a bit with the two kids in these pictures.

We like it too. It's nice to have someone for him to play with.

Cute Kids

A cute picture Karin took of the kids (after their haircuts):

Visitors!

Kris's family came to visit last weekend for fall break.

We took them downtown and to Beale Street.

We hung out.

That's the tree in our backyard! It's huge!

And we put them to work!

Hmmm, for some reason the only working pictures I have are of Klebo and Stian. And while they did do a lot of work, Brad and Karin definitely did the most, even if I don't have the photo evidence.

I'll do a "before and after" at some point soon. I need to finish painting the front door. But they really cleaned up our front yard. It's an amazing difference.

They trimmed the front trees back, among other things, and now they are perfect for climbing!

Posing in front of some of their handiwork - this is a sneak peak! Hopefully I'll ge the front door the rest of the way painted soon so we can get a proper "after" picture.