We had a super fun-busy weekend. It started Friday evening when we picked up the girls' Haunt Jaunt race packets. The received t-shirts, wrist bands, a bunch of coupons, and mini deodorant, which they both thought was awesome/hilarious.
Saturday morning, Emma had a birthday party for a friend from school. She is usually tagging along to parties for Sara's friends, or attending parties that both girls are invited to, so she really loved that this one was just for her and her friends. The girls ate pizza and cake, and played like crazy for two hours, which I was sure would result in a long nap but, alas, did not.
Saturday evening, after Sara's soccer pictures, we dressed up and headed to Oak Point Nature Preserve for the city's annual Haunt Jaunt. We participated in the one-mile fun run, but there is also a 5K event that happens after the fun run ends and it gets a little darker outside.
We had a great time! Sara basically sprinted the entire thing, so Steve ran with her while Emma and I hung closer to the back. Emma ran a lot, and walked some too; both girls did a great job. We enjoyed watching some dancers perform to "Thriller" and singing along to "Monster Mash" (which both girls have been singing non-stop since).
After the race, we celebrated at BWW, and we arrived just in time to watch the Cyclones hold their own against TCU before, not surprisingly, deciding not to show up for the second half.
This morning after I ran to the grocery store, the girls and I got ready and headed to the pumpkin patch. Steve was wanting to do a long run today, so it was the perfect opportunity for us to have a girls' day. The weather couldn't have been better and we had a blast!
Sara figured out the hay bale maze, the girls rode on the barrel train, we all went on a hayride, and the girls tried out all of the bounce houses.
We made a brief pit stop for orange pop ... jackpot!
Such a fun day with my girls. And so many great photo opps at a pumpkin patch - this is only a fraction of what I took! We hadn't visited a pumpkin patch in a few years, and I'm so glad we went today.
After we'd been at the pumpkin patch a couple of hours, I realized I probably wasn't going to have time once we got home to prepare the dinner I'd planned. And my floors didn't get cleaned this weekend ... again (no problem, though, as Sara reminded me on the way home, "Don't worry, the floors aren't going anywhere!"). So we ordered pizza, watched "Great Pumpkin, CB", and ignored the crumbs on the floors (what's a few more days at this point?). I'm thankful for a beautiful weekend full of fun fall activities. Now the girls are in bed and the parents aren't far behind.
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