Happy Halloween Weekend!

Friday: the church Trunk or Treat

don't they look thrilled to be there?

(Gabe is a monkey. I'm noticing that I didn't get any pictures of him with his hood up...) Saturday: Boo at the Zoo

Molly's favorite

by this point in the night Gabe was passed out in the stroller.
Molly on the "giant wheel"

The talking pumpkin. She said Molly was a beautiful witch. Anyone who says Molly is beautiful automatically becomes a fan favorite. "Mommy did you hear her? She said I was beautiful." And I keep thinking is this really my 3 year old?

Halloween.

We had dinner with some friends and then went trick or treating around the block. One family had a big screen tv on their front lawn and were playing the Thriller music video. There were 10+ people dancing along. Molly and Jimmy were awe struck.

Drew's pumpkin

friends welcome

Last week our friend Aaron had a conference here in Louisville. He brought along Becky and the rest of the kiddos. We had so much fun. We've really missed them. When we lived in Lincoln we would get together a lot, our kids get along really well and it was nice always having a friend to do things with. Molly and Gabe have been talking about them coming for a LONG time. Now we are working on getting back on schedule and catching up on the sleep we missed out on last week. :D

We went to Mooremen Landing and walked around. It was so pretty. The kids had a great time playing in the leaves. One thing about Kentucky is that there is NO shortage of leaves.

We went to Mammoth Cave on Friday. Sadly Aaron was at his conference so he missed out on this one. Here we are exiting the cave.
me and the girls

Becky with her little guy.

What can I say? Gabe is so happy to be a part of our family.

We also went to the zoo played some frisbee golf and went for a little night hike in the Jefferson Memorial Forrest.

Thanks for coming Anderson's we had a great time!

Paint & Wood

Before.

After.
The hallway/kids door.
One of the things that I like about our library is that after story time they always have a craft. Molly and Gabe's door is ready for fall.
(Last week felt like fall low to mid 70's. Sunday it's supposed to be 90. Not complaining just sayin...)
We have a friend who takes care of a golf course. Last week he cut down 2 trees. These trees have a new home behind our garage.
This was the start. Now the wood goes all the way across the garage and it's stacked up to the window. We still have a bunch of trunk pieces that need to be cut and then stacked... It should keep us warm this winter. and the next. and the next. Anything to keep the heating bill down is fine by me.

Meijer

I'm not sure if any of you live by a Meijer or if Meijer adds are national or just local, but my Meijer is having a can sale this week. Meijer brand vegetables are 4/$1.00 and apples are $.59 lb. Our store was pretty cleaned out, but Wal-Mart add matches...

One other reason we love Meijer is Sandy. Sandy is the little electronic horse you can ride when walking out of the store. Molly and Gabe asked if they could ride her the first time we were in there. I without really looking said No and then realized that you can ride Sandy for {drumroll} $.01 Now whenever we're in Meijer the bribe is "if your good you can ride Sandy before we leave".

Fall is Here!

{I'm so happy that blogger let me put more than 1 picture with this post :) Does anyone else ever have this problem? I'll wait forever for my pictures to load only to have an error message show up. Hallelujah it worked today.}

The weather is finally cooling off here in the great state of Kentucky. Last week in was in the mid to high 90's. This week it's in the mid 70's. Do you know what that means? It's time to start wearing really cute hats. I was trying to practice with the manual settings on my camera yesterday evening and I had two very uncooperative kids. Even though the model isn't impressed I'm pretty happy with the way this hat turned out and I'm excited that now I can make/talk her into wearing it. I'm sure this hat and others like it will start popping up in pictures throughout the coming months.

What have we been up too? Well our freezer broke last week. I was sad to have to spend money on a new one, but not sad to replace the old one. So this is the newest addition to the Wilkerson home. It's big, shiny and showcases all of our fingerprints very nicely. :) Now our appliances are 2 and 2. The built in microwave is also stainless steel and the stove and dishwasher are a nice off white almondy color. Eventually they'll all match...
Here are a couple zoo pictures. I've been pretty impressed with the Louisville Zoo. With our Lincoln Children's Zoo membership we get into this zoo for free. Always a plus. This Zoo also has an awesome splash pad equipped with a pirate ship and slides. Although because it's getting late in the season I think it's only open on the weekends because I loaded up the kids and their swimming stuff last Monday and it was closed. After walking around the zoo in the 90+ degree weather we were all pretty sticky and tired, no pictures of that visit.
*In this picture it looks like Molly peed her pants. Not to fear she didn't a pretend animal peed on her. At least she thought it was funny...

I'm sad that I didn't get any pictures of this goats face. It was one of the ugliest goats I have ever seen. I couldn't help but laugh out loud. Maybe next time...

We've also enjoyed playing in the rain. What good are rain boots if you can't find any puddles to jump in?

We (by we I mean Drew) started painting the front room. It's a neutral beige type color. I think it makes our house feel a lot more inviting. When it's completely finished pictures will be coming hopefully tonight fingers crossed. Next month our plan is to start painting the kitchen. I found a back splash that I LOVE. The only problem is that I don't think we have the budget to purchase the back splash next month. I'm slightly worried that I'm going to paint my kitchen around a back splash that will be discontinued or something by the time I'm ready to buy it... We'll see. My decorating wants list goes on and on. I also want to get a new curtain rod and curtains for the living room. Something bright that will compliment the blue that will be in the kitchen and our very neutral living room. I love decorating I just wish I had an endless budget so that I could do everything at once. :)

Now I should probably be off to put away some dishes and laundry before Molly and Gabe wake up. I LOVE nap time!

ding

Last night after Molly was tucked into bed she said that she had to go potty. (For some reason recently Drew and I haven't been great about reminding her after we brush her teeth.)
Drew: "dang it"
Molly: with great excitement "ding!"
Drew: puzzled face
Molly: "I ding-ed it"

They're Here!

I've been waiting for this day ever since we've moved in. It's going to be nice not having to cart my laundry around town. (Having said that I've still been really spoiled. My grandma lives maybe 3 miles from us and she's been letting me do laundry at her house.)

Aren't they beautiful! I think I have about 1,000 loads of laundry to do. They'll be really broken in tomorrow.

Gabe was in heaven today. First it was garbage day and then the men came to deliver the washer and dryer. I think I've heard "you wash my morcycle shirt" about 20 times today. (Gabe has been asking to wear his motorcycle shirt everyday. Sadly its been dirty for about the last week and a half.)

Molly has been obsessed with princesses and fairy tales lately. Yesterday she told me that she married Jack and the Beanstalk. I asked her what happened to Prince Charming and she told me that he lives too far away in his castle. After asking her a few more questions she told me "fine I just marry myself". She then invited me to her wedding "you come into your bathroom and you can watch me marrying myself" I followed her into the bathroom where she danced in her tap shoes and twirled in the dress and pettiskirt she was wearing. (Drew and I have a good size bathroom off of our bedroom with a skylight. I think it's Molly's favorite room.)

Molly also named her little dog last week. Molly has always called her babies and stuffed animals by descriptive words. She has heavy baby, sick baby, bathtub baby etc. Last week she kept telling me "I bringing Mango a treat. Mango needs___" I asked her who Mango was and she told me that it was her puppy. He's 2 just like Gabe. She also told me "Mango starts with a M like me". Then the name evolved to Mango Clementine. I'm not sure where she came up with it, but I think it's funny. I guess Molly does like the Oh My Darling Clementine song, but I'm still not sure where Mango came from.