Happy Thanks...uh...Halloween.

Like I said last week, we have a wee bit of catching up to do. So here goes Halloween night. That evening we headed over to Team Weber's house for a little trickin' and treatin' in their hood. They live in Edina so we were thinking the candy would be dee-luxe. It was good, but there wasn't any full candy bar action to be had nor crazy ladies handing out apples. (I'm not being sexist. In my experience, it's always a crazy lady). Oh, and our H-ween Posse multiplied with the help of Team Hopkins! Lucy was the most adorable monkey. Lucky for us, Benjamin (as Indiana Jones) and Stella (as Magic Fairy Princess) kept us safe on our journey, warding off any giant rolling boulders or mean green goblins.
P.S. check out Duder wearing the wig. He's just (sniffle, sniffle) growing up so fast. Btw, he was scared of his own Beatle-esque 'do. Good times.

Duder gets a haircut.

Not sure if I told you this yet or not, but the latest nickname we have for O-Robs/"O"/O-Max/Sir Owen is now "Duder" or "The Duder." Why? No big reason except it just fits. O just looks like a Duder. Has the swagger like one. Babbles like one. Has hair like a shaggy, surfer Duder.
Anywho. Well, we took Duder to this place at the E.P. mall named, unremarkably, "Kids Hair" to get his first hair cut. Little man was not digging it at first. Then he realized that Mama was at his side, so he put his pouty lip away. Decided to be a big boy and stop crying. Because that's just what a Duder does.

Tickle belly.

Dragon walk.

Here's a vid of our dragon on the prowl for trouble (and candy).

Hallzooween.

It's the day of Halloween. The phone rings while we're out running errands. It's Jee and Chris: "Want to go trick or treating at the zoo today?" Yep, of course. We love the random, wing-it kind of afternoons. It was fun to see Connor boy dressed up like a panda. And to see Owen doing a dry run of his dragon costume before the big Halloween night. Good times. Owen even ran into a fellow dragon along the way.

Lil' Vike.

In honor of Sunday's victory/manhandling of the Seahawks, I had to post these photos of our little guy in uniform.

On the way home.

Right before we left the orchard, we let Owen pick an apple off the tree. It was a cute shot and whatever, but he insisted that he keep his apple. Whining ensued. Ok fine, keep your apple for the ride home. At this age, O isn't supposed to be eating any fruits with tough skin on them, but we didn't think he'd be able to really do anything but slobber on the apple. We were, umm, wrong. By the time we got home it was a mangled core.

The Orchard, part two.

The Orchard, part one.

So we're a tad behind in our blog posts which means, at this rate, we'll be posting Halloween pics in December. But here's a look back at our trip to the Minnetonka Apple Orchard. It was quite the event. They had pumpkins, apple pickin', a wooden train to climb in, corn maze, hay pyramid, and a bunch of crazy animals. They even had toy pony rides (bizarro) and goats that climb on the roof (bizarro, too). Oh and they had people dancing around with sticks and yelping like wounded cats (bizarro, three). It was strangely entertaining. And Owen of course, had a blast running all over the place.



Check out these videos of all the bizarro festivities...

Boxsledding.

It's a new sport sweeping the nation! Popular with puppies, kittens and kiddos like Owen and Lucy!

And we're back!

I know, I know. We've been lousy bloggers in the past month. Life got in the way, I suppose. The good news is we have lots of fun tidbits to share with all of our faithful followers-- all 4 of 'em. The pics below are from a trip we did in mid-Oct to the Weber's cabin. It was that crazy weekend we got a premature dusting of snow (on Oct 10th, WAY before it's supposed to flurry). Team Hopkins, Team Weber and TKO had a cozy weekend of lounging around, pushing the kids in a box (cheap thrills), hot tubbin', too much eatin' and probably too much drinkin' (can't remember). Plus, one brave sailing expedition by Nick and Brandon across the icy waters of Lake Dum'ass. :)