Pretzels! YUM!

We spent the afternoon at Aunt Kristen's house making pretzels. It was a lot of fun and Ashley loved helping the big girls stretch and roll the dough :)

Happy Halloween!

Here's our little lady bug riding a pony at our Church's fall festival. We had a great Halloween - a very full, but very fun day full of costume contests, trick-or-treating, bounce houses, visiting family, and eating lots and lots of suckers!

The night before Halloween we got to work carving up our pumpkins { 3 of them, one for daddy, one for mommy, and one for Ashley} - Ashley had a blast getting all the 'guck and seeds' {as she called it} out of the pumpkins. She worked so hard and loved her final product.

Yes, we carved up that tiny one too - but you can't really tell because we didn't have a candle small enough to go inside :(

Pumpkin Patch 2008

WEEEEEEEEE ~ Ashley and Mommy sliding down the big slide at the pumpkin patch. Ashley wanted to do it so bad - but when she got up there was a little intimidated, so mommy went with her.

Each year we go to the same pumpkin patch with Gigi and Granken - we always have a good time and take lots of great pictures. This year the weather was beautiful and we got to eat a yummy lunch outdoors and enjoy the entire afternoon.

Ashley with "touille". Maybe not her favorite movie character anymore - but she will always hold a special place in her heart for "touille". I am pretty sure that by now she could pronounce Ratatouille if she wanted to --- but to her this will always be "touille".

With Mickey and Minnie - notice how she is holding her hands out :) So cute - she was doing this with all the cutouts - like she was putting her arms around them :)