Nope.

 The other day I asked Linden to get dressed and this was her response:

Also, I took some photos of our pumpkins after Halloween:

The one on the left Maren carved all by herself!

Happy Halloween 🎃

We had about 250 trick-or-treaters that started showing up at 4:30 PM. We were busy busy busy, especially with two little trick-or-treaters of our own. This was the only picture that we got this year:

And here are a few from carving pumpkins:

Earlier this week it was also Jeff‘s birthday, and we made an awesome cake. Vanilla with milk chocolate buttercream frosting  (vegan of course).

Definitely no shortage of treats around here :-)

Cookies

We had some spooky cookie fun this weekend:

 

Halloween is just around the corner!

Pumpkin pie

 Today we celebrated Thanksgiving. Americans reading this may recall that in Canada Thanksgiving is a Monday in early/mid October, not a Thursday in late November. And it is acceptable to have your Thanksgiving meal earlier in the long weekend, say on Sunday, like we did. We had a pretty traditional dinner of stuffing, cranberry sauce, mushroom gravy, roasted carrots, mashed potatoes, and soy curls (in place of turkey). Then for dessert pumpkin pie, whipped cream, and homemade ice cream. Everything vegan, everything delicious. 

Happy Thanksgiving from us to you!

Fall

 Now that it is October, it is definitely fall here. The mornings are chilly, but the afternoons have been quite warm. We still have a couple of hot days to look forward to this week (29C/84F), but things cool off to highs as low as 14C/57F soon after that. 

Yesterday we had a lovely fall day, raking leaves in the morning, and eating apple pie in the afternoon.

One of our colleagues has both a one-year-old and an apple tree. We gave her a rocking horse that our kids have outgrown, she gave us a big bag of apples, and yesterday we made a pie. It’s a little hard to tell from the picture, but we could have put about twice as many apples in. We had the apples, but Jeff’s hands were cold from chopping (the apples had been in the refrigerator) and I was impatient so we ended up with a half-full pie. It was delicious though 😊

Work has been busy, neither kid has been sleeping well, and we are pretty exhausted, but we are enjoying life reasonably well anyway.