Expanded Truckland!  Nathaniel wanted to cover his store-bought city rug with a blank sheet (literally a bedsheet with velcro sewn on).  He drew all the roads and buildings seen here.

Annabelle with our scarecrow guy!

Annabelle and Nathaniel with scarecrow man

Fire Safety Week!  Nathaniel's class visited the local fire station, our family went to the Eden Prairie fire station open house and the fire engines visited our church parking lot on Sunday (pictured here).

One too many speeding tickets for Daddy...in the back of the squad car sir!  

The fire trucks parked outside our church Sunday morning.  Just for fun!  I learned that morning that Eden Prairie's fire fighting team is almost all volunteer!

Nathaniel's teacher Mrs. Churchill (in red) serving up pancakes at his class "Pajama and Pancake" breakfast.

Nathaniel chowing pancakes with friends.

Nathaniel looking at a Mustang at the "classic car show" at our church.

Annabelle's class ready for the "Regions Fest" parade.  The 4th grade does a Regions Festival...where each class studies a region and then dresses up as an icon or symbol of that region.  This replaces a traditional Halloween party for them.

Annabelle's class region was the Southwest...Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.  A nice prelude to our planned trip to Arizona this winter!

Annabelle dressed as a Fandago dancer.  She wearing a vintage dress that was Grandma Rudy's...a gift from her grandma Brecher (Annabelle's great-great grandma) in the 1950s.  It was made it Tucson, Arizona!

Carving pumpkins.

Annabelle loves the goo!

The finished pumpkins.

Boo!

A spooky breakfast on Halloween morning.

Nathaniel dressed as a trash truck at his class party.

Nathaniel's class Halloween party.

My job was the craft for the party.  We made spiders out of Tootsie pops and pipe cleaners.  That is Nathaniel in the corner with the hardhat.

Witch Annabelle on Halloween night.

Nathaniel raring to go.

Nathaniel and friend Chad trick or treating.

Annabelle and friend Jenna were twin witches...or "twitches" (a cross between twin and witch).