Ward Fall Festival

Tonight was the Fall Festival and Halloween Party at our church. We actually got a picture of all of us together! Thanks Terry!

Ethan playing one of the games.

Ethan the Alligator at the Trunk-or-Treat.

My first time making challah bread, braiding 6 strands of dough is not easy! As you can see my second loaf came out much better.

I made a cheesecake with a pumpkin layer and a chocolate layer, it was yummy!

Belly Button!

Pumpkin Carving Party

Every year our neighbors down the road have a huge pumpkin carving party and line their stone wall with hundreds of carved pumpkins. This year we went down to help carve and had a blast. They had a tent set up with tables and carving utensils, and pots of chili and treats.

Ethan scooping out the seeds

And dumping them out


Ethan and Nathan

I love these owls!

Playground Day

We had fun going to one of the playgrounds at the Woodstock Elementary School this afternoon. Ethan loved playing in the wooden plane and going headfirst down the slides.

First Snowflakes

Ethan had fun catching snow on his tongue.

Bean town

Here we are in front of the Congress Street Bridge, which is where the Boston Tea Party ships and museum will open in 2011.


I thought this building looked like a dead sheep lying upside down. What do you think?

We visited the Boston Fire Museum. It was full of old fire engines, artifacts and pictures.

Boston Children's Museum

We had a great time exploring the Boston Children's Museum. Ethan loved climbing and exploring the three story high climbing sculpture.

We loved playing in the bubble room!

Playing in the contruction zone was a ton of fun!

We went outside and found some big stone scuptures to run through.

I loved watching this huge fish sculpture float by!

Pomfret Corn Maize!

After the Hartford Marathon we headed to Pomfret to the corn maize. Ethan had a blast running through the corn and exploring.

Hartford Marathon

On Saturday October 10th we hit the streets of Hartford along with over 10,000 other runners to participate in the 16th Hartford Marathon. Our team the Quiet Corner Cuties finished in 18th place with a time of 4:45:55. Sara, me, Rachel and Jenny are pictured above, Mary also ran with us. I ran 7.5 miles of the 26.2 miles in about an hour and 15 minutes. It was awesome and we had a blast! Can't wait to do it again next year! Team again or half marathon? Decisions, decisions.

More pictures coming soon.
Here they are!

Lapsley's Orchard

We had fun at the orchard and enjoyed picking apples and taking a hayride.

Daddy's Helper

Nate was connecting more cables to the dish this afternoon and Ethan was determined to help. No children were harmed in the shooting of these pictures.