7, Halloween, 9, Girls on the Run

Next up...birthdays, Halloween, and a 5k! 

We celebrated Piper's 7th birthday on October 30 with a family day followed by Halloween, and then Greta's 9th birthday on November 5th. What a week! 

The girls are so grown up. Piper will always be the littlest and loves that about her life, but at 7, she is starting to act so grown up. She takes pride in a clean room, loves to read and is thrilled about taking piano lessons. She seems to have more buddy boy friends than girl friends and loves it. Piper chose Bread and Circus for her family dinner. Greta is my best helper, always excited with tasks, but has mastered sneaking food and candy into her bed, I find 'wrapages' from Hershey kisses in her bed weekly. While I'm constantly reminding her of the food rules, I secretly smile at her tactics, because she is pretty clever when it comes to them, if only she could figure out how to clean up after herself. She has mastered the eye roll and she has so much sass. She chose Golden Bowl for her family dinner. I love everything about them both. 

For Halloween, the kids dressed as a couple of trash pandas and a bunny (all the camping varmints ;)). They went out with neighbors while I handed out candy, we enjoyed picture perfect weather... we had nearly 400 trick or treaters!  

On Greta's actual birthday, she ran a 5k with Dave and Sully as her support runners. She participated in Girls on the Run this year and took away so many things. She learned about setting goals and accomplishing them. One of my bffs and neighbors, Amy, was a coach and really nailed it, we feel really lucky to have been a part of this program. Way to go, Greta (and Dave and Sully, and all of the girls!). 

Pip- 7! 

The Zookeeper and her animals. 

Piper the bunny, Sully and Greta as trash pandas. 

5th ave Faves, missing Landon and Aidan. 

On my Halloween stoop. 

The chaos. 

Bday parties. 

Girls on the Run, Greta surrounded by love. 

Picture perfect High 5 from Matt.

Greta's cheering/birthday squad. 

Greta and Amy... and Anders :). 

So proud of our G. 

Annika, Greta, and Piper. 

Golden Bowl photo op with our kiddos.