Butterfly Fairies & Pumpkin Carvings

From this past weekend.  Hailey's in the pink, Riley's in the purple, in case you needed reminding.  More trick or treat photos to come.

Treehouses

These were taken in the Forever Young Treehouse at Oakledge Park in Burlington, VT.  It's the world's first handicap accessible tree house and a nice place for pictures!

Decorating

Hopefully we'll still get some trick or treaters on Wednesday...

 
And just because - Getting ready for school on Teddy Bear/Pajama day.  Well, there wasn't much getting ready to do!

Fancy Facepaint

Really, the fanciest face paint ever.  They each even had a little gem stuck on.  Hailey first, then Riley.  I couldn't choose which pictures to post.

 

Girls' Weekend

Chris went away for a boys' weekend last weekend, so Grandma Gerry came and we had a very fun girls' weekend!   We got Halloween costumes ready, went to a big library sale, a princess tea party, Pizza Putt (a indoor playspace/arcarde/money suck "restaurant", we made the mistake of asking the girls what their favorite restaurant was), and a new farm nearby for pumpkin & raspberry picking with a corn maze!

Hailey with a maple tree helicopter thingy on her nose.

Hailey & Riley & Maple

Which way?

Pumpkin patch!

Vermont

In other news, our house guest is now a family member.  Blog, officially meet Mansfield. Mansfield, meet blog readers.   He came to visit and never left.  Shocking to everyone I'm sure.  He's a good little kitty.  (And the girls' recent allergy test informed us they are both allergic to dogs, which finally got Chris to stop bugging me about getting a dog.  Mansfield is his consolation prize.)

And lastly, we said good bye to No No the fish this week.  It was a good year and a half, fish, you will be missed.  (Ne Ne died about a week after we got her.)  No No's death could possibly be attributed to the above mentioned new pet, but he got rid of all the evidence. 

Riley's tribute to No No & Ne Ne, 2011-2012