Aurora ~ Happy Halloween

Over the weekend, we continued our pumpkin crafting project adding new members to the pumpkin family.
The preK was having a party on the Halloween day. Five Aurora princesses showed up in the class, and Elle was one of them. There're five activities set up for the party: bingo game, snack, crafting, pin-the-tail and ball tossing. The kids rotated to each activity table in a group until they had finished all activities.
At evening, the neighborhood was filled with kids dressed up for trick-or-treating. Elle loved passing out candies as much as going trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. By the end of the night, she got another full basket filled with loots.

Cinderella ~ Trunk or Treat

More candies and goodies at the mall in the morning and at the apple orchard in the evening. She was overload on sweets.

Belle ~ Trunk or treat

The rain became drizzle. The dark clouds were blown away. Little sunshine peeking through, lighted up many happy little faces, in a perfect timing for trunk-or-treating. Minutes after the trunk-or-treating was over, the rain was pouring down. What a bless!

Catch of the day

Love is in the air

We ventured into carving on a bigger pumpkin this time. "Can we make heart-shape eyes for the pumpkin?", she popped the question. Sure, let's do it.
My little one was really into the mood of Halloween that she was swaying her bodies while singing joyously "It's a happy halloween".

Autumn day

Kicking, stomping and shuffling the way through the leaves.
It's a gorgeous autumn day to visit the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins for carving.

Little fella

She had tons of fun carving the teeny weeny pumpkin she picked from her orchard field trip. She called it "my little fella".

Daddy's birthday

She drew a four-layers hearts cake and a new fishing suit on her daddy's birthday card. Then, she asked what else to draw. I said how about things that papa loves. She said, "Oh! Papa loves me writing.", and there she went drawing a picture of herself sitting at the table doing homework.

Autumn leaves

Warm Spell

It's rare to have such a warm summer-like weather at this time of year. Set up the pool under the sun having some great bbq and water fun.

Dark Chocolate Waffle

She scooped the batter into the waffle iron, closed it and flipped it over, stared at the red light and started counting until the light turned into green color, and yelled "It's done! Time to take it out."

Grapes u-pick

Picking two bags full of concord grapes making yummy purple juice.
Happy purple goopy faces.

Orchard Field Trip

A field trip to Gull Meadow orchard farm for autumn apple picking and fun activities.

Catch of the day

Camping fever in September

We couldn't ask for a better weather to camp in mid-September. We camped at the Platte river campground nestled in Sleeping bear dune national lakeshore. Our group campsite is located deepest in the woods, about 370 yards from the parking lot. When we checked in, the ranger informed us that as sight of bears was spotted around here, we would need to clear out all the foods from the campsite and lock them into car trunk every night before we go to sleep and while we're not staying at the campsite.
Waiting to be put in to the platte river at the outfitter. We had lots of company on the river on this beautiful sunny day.
A scene of the river packing with anglers and paddlers. At the dam, we paddled amidst hundreds of king salmons swimming around our canoe.
While approaching our take-off spot at the mouth of platte river, the view changed into a vast of sand dune against the backdrop of Lake Michigan.
Overlooking sleeping bear dune from the platte river mouth.
The temperature dropped to 40F at night, we all bundled up curling inside the sleeping bags. Still, we felt like as if sleeping in the freezer the whole night.
Love the ambience, the wilderness of this campground. Kids runnning around wildly in the woods, playing and chasing each other.
Walking on the 370-yard trail, carrying things in and out, gazillion times a day, was a "memorable" experience on this trip.
Autumn color was peeking through the canopy. This camping trip nicely wrapped up the last horray of summer.