Happy Halloween!

I wanted to share a bunch of pictures from all of our Halloween festivities. We had a very busy weekend, starting with our pumpkin carving on Thursday. You can see below all the fun we had. The picture about is Jacie with a bunch of her second cousins. It was so cute seeing all of them curled up reading a "sto-ee" as Jacie calls it! :)

Those of you that know Preston know that he doesn't mess around with these types of projects. We had three pumpkins to carve and we were going to carve them well! He printed patterns online and I did the drawing. Preston started doing all the carving, but being the perfectionist that he is I had to jump in....otherwise we would still be carving pumpkins today!

Jacie wasn't so sure that she liked how the pumpkin guts felt.

Jacie posing with her baby pumpkin!

Jacie is feeding the pumpkin "num-nums!"

Posing with the finished product.

Daddy was so proud he had to take pictures of all the completed pumpkins!

Namie Katie and Papa Lynn sent Jacie a fun package for Halloween. Jacie quickly figured out what to do with the stickers. I looked over and she had them everywhere!

On Friday night at church I had a trunk-or-treat event. Preston and Jace came for a little while. The event was a huge success...we had 500 kiddies attend!

Auntie Rosie sent this cute little outfit - I just love it!

YUMMY! Who needs candy when we have CHIPS! This is one of Jacie's favorite foods and words. Namie Thea and Papa Tom gave her this cute basket. And of course Zoe wanted some too!

Jacie loves her auntie Katie and they both LOVE suckers! Katie gave Jacie her first sucker several months back and continues to supply her with them on a regular basis. No wonder Jacie likes her so much! :)

Life is good when you have a tootsie pop!!!

Auntie Katie and Uncle T gave me this cool bucket and ball...and of course lots of goodies.

On Sunday night we went to the Buckley's for some trick-or-treating. The kids all looked so cute in their costumes!

Trick-or-Treating with daddy...whoohooo we just got lots of candy!!!

All in all we had a great Halloween. Jacie is growing and talking so much. She is very petite in size, but not in personality! She gives us a new challenge each day...but I can say one thing for sure...there is truly nothing better in life than being a parent. She makes us both SOOOOOO incredibly happy.

Vala's Pumpkin Patch

Last Friday we took a trip to Vala's Pumpkin Patch. It is a really neat place, Jacie is too young for the majority of their activities...but we had a blast anyways!

Papa Lynn would not approve of the color of this tractor...but it was fun anyways! :)

These two are my favorite...she is such a little ham!

This was by far her favorite activity...the jumper. She was up there saying "jump, jump, jump" and just laughing...it was adorable!

This was a close second...the corn sandbox. She liked throwing corn at daddy!

Mexico

Preston and I took our first big vacation away from Jacie. We had a really great time together, but by about day three we were really missing our girl. We snapped out of it and enjoyed our five days on the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Amy and Zach's good friend Sarah was getting married so a whole bunch of the family came along. We all had a great time...it was a fun trip!

The photographer who was on the beach had fun taking our pictures. We look like we are jumping much higher than we actually were!

Hanging out in the ocean! The water was beautiful.

We missed our girl...can you tell.

Our last night!

Me and Dad!

Fall Fun at the Apple Orchard!

This past weekend we decided to make the trek to NE City to the Apple Orchard. We took Jacie last year, but she was too little to enjoy the tasty treats. It was kind of a rainy day, but we had a great time anyways. After the orchard we drove into town and went to this little BBQ restaurant for lunch. J was definitely tuckered out by the time we made it home!

Yum! This is delicious!

This was our one little tantrum...mommy and daddy made me get out of the train and I was having so much fun!!!

Overall it was a great day!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

This year we had a nice quiet bday celebration for daddy at home. Mommy made dinner and we had apple pie for dessert! It was a very nice evening.

Big Birthdays!

We had two big birthdays in the Weinandt household this August. Mom turned 50 and Zach turned 21. We threw them a big party at Champions and we had tons of family and friends show up. Everyone had an awesome time.

We decided to take a big family photo and Zach was feeling a little left out being the only single one. Uncle Bill threw this random girl in the photo so he felt better! The bad thing is she is younger and skinnier than I am and she happens to be wearing the same dress!!!

Royals Game

In August Jacie experienced her first Royals game. She got to experience Rosenblatt at least once! We had Faith and Family night for church. She loved the game...lots of clapping and cheering. We didn't think she would make it very long and she actually lasted the entire game...fireworks and all.

It was a little hot...can you tell? We were all sweating!
Cool shades!