1999 Ford Contour SE

In the past month we have had to put a new transmission in our van and Ben's car died...So this is what we bought! It's really good on gas, is SUPER clean and has under 100,000 miles on it. It was a rental car for a long time so it has been well maintained. When it rains vehicle problems, it pours vehicle problems. :(

Halloween

Yesterday Peter brought Halloween treats to daycare for all his friends. After dinner we went to the mall to "Trick-or-Treat". Our neighborhood isn't really set up for Trick-or-Treaters and many of our friends had things going on so we just decided to do the untraditional (yet becoming all the rage) Mall-o-ween Trick-or-Treat Party. Plus, we don't have any family in town to go "visit" and show off costumes to. I think going to the mall is a good idea for a 2 year old because Peter didn't have to put a coat, hat, mittens, etc on over his costume. He didn't have to walk/trip/fall over bumpy terrain in people's dark yards. And with a different store to get candy every 10 feet, I think he really started to get the hang of the whole thing...Say "trick-or-treat", take candy, say "thank you" and walk away. Towards the end, Peter was getting tired of all the commotion so he would just put his hand out and say "thank you". If the candy wasn't then IMMEDIATELY placed in his hand, he just moved on to the next store. By next year we plan on being in a different neighborhood (most likely a different town), so we will have to start traditional "trick-or-treating" then. After the Mall-o-ween festivities, we stopped at Haley & Jacob's apartment. That is where we took photos. They had A LOT of candy for Peter! He didn't stop eating the whole time we were there. CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE & MORE CHOCOLATE! Haley and I were visiting in a different room and every time Peter walked by he had a different piece of candy in his mouth. We blamed the boys for that one. :D He didn't get to sleep until 9:30pm! (He's normally in bed by 7:30pm) I dressed as Dora the Explorer (Peter's new obsession), Ben was Joe from Blues Clues, and Peter was Rocket from Little Einsteins. If you don't know what these things are, it probably means you aren't "with it" when it comes to kids television programming!


Peter eating a sucker at the mall...

Peter refusing to look at the camera...he had to open his chocolate first.

This one is better. :D

Family photo (I won't ever be dying my hair black, by the way)

Dora w/ Map & Backpack, Joe w/ his notebook and crayon

Dora planning her route and Joe looking over his clues

Peter getting his high

Pumpkin Patch

We were going to go to the pumpkin patch during the weekend of October 18-20th...But Peter ended up with Pink Eye, so we didn't go anywhere! After work last week I brought Peter there by myself (Haley helped) because Ben was still at work. We were going to carve them this past weekend, but Ben's car went to Used Car Heaven so we ended up car shopping instead. (We bought a 1999 Ford Contour SE...I'll post pictures of it at some point!) So this year all's we have is pumpkins...No Jack-O-Lanterns. We'll just have to shoot for next year!

Funny story about the pumpkin patch...
Because we only went one week before Halloween, the patch was kind of picked over. Haley and I were trying to find a few decent pumpkins to buy, which was becoming a difficult task. We sort of lost track of Peter for a few seconds...When we spotted him, he was about twenty yards away and he was hauling a pumpkin by himself over to the owner of the patch. The funny part is that the ONE pumpkin that Peter picked out on his own was WHITE. It wasn't a gourd or other scary looking vegetable that comes out around this time of year, it was an ALBINO pumpkin. It is so ugly looking. A huge field of orange pumpkins, and the one he wants is white... :D I bought it for him and we lugged our pumpkins home. They are now sitting in a row in the garage, waiting to rot instead of waiting to be carved. :(


Mommy & Peter


Peter LOVES to count!


Mommy getting Peter's opinion and Peter trying to "help"