Chuckie Cheese

Last week, we found ourselves with a little cabin fever.

It's been cold and Eric's been working so hard,

we just needed some family time!

We decided to take EK to Chuckie Cheese,

and it wasn't the worst $5 we ever spent. :)

She was too little for most of the games,

but she loooved the slide and rode a few rides.

And I loved spending time with my family

and watching that girl smile and play with her dad.

saturday, busy day.

we had such a fun weekend!
Saturday was our first opportunity for Eleanor to wear her Halloween costume,
twice!

first we headed to the library for a Halloween story time
with liz and brogan.
it was unbelievably PACKED!
we listened to a couple of scary stories, went on a costume parade and pulled all the books off the shelves played with our friends.

after going home and taking a nap,
we were ready for outing #2!
a fall festival at a church just next door to our house.

it didn't start til dark, so it was too dark for many pictures
but ellie did get to go on her first hayride.
she didn't care much for it actually,
had a trembling lip part of the time and fell asleep a bit of the time.
she also got to do some trunk or treating and had a hard time moving to the next car.
can't blame the girl, who wouldn't want more candy!!

also, I don't think it needs to be mentioned how ridiculously hard it is to get a not blurry, everyone looking pictures with babies.
we have a few more Halloween events this week, so we will get plenty of use out of her first handmade costume!
love this time of year.

slide.

The slide has never been more fun!

We couldn't get Eleanor away from it :)

She would climb up it over and over,

laughing and grunting all the way.

Eventually she would lose her grip and slide down backwards on her belly,

still laughing.

It's so fun to watch your baby having fun!

Afterwards, we had a little family photo shoot in the grass.

We threw Eleanor up in the air so many times,

and after looking through the pictures,

I decided I was reaching my hands up to high 

& decided to lower them a bit.

We got the best shot that looks like she was just flying towards the moon.

And then Eric had a heart attack, 

so that was the last time for that. ;)

I love when Eric has the night off & we can spend time as a family,

Because they are both kind of my favorite people.