Fall

My favorite season is upon us now.  I absolutely love fall.  What a glorious month of September we had and I'm looking forward to a lovely October.  Meredith is on her SECOND field trip of the year today.  They headed up to Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan to do a nature hike.  What a perfect day!  

Meredith is very excited about Halloween.  She's going to be Cinderella this year.  Anna is going to be a bumblebee.  The same bumblebee that Meredith was when she was 2.  

Hockey is going to start in a couple more weeks.  We're all really excited about it, although Meredith is doing a clinic this fall already.  It will be fun to see the kids she played with last year again.  

We bit the bullet and booked an Alaskan cruise with the whole family for next August.  We are really looking forward to that and having some other family come along with us.  I have been saving for years for a vacation.  I've been saving all my cash back on my Discover card, all the money that I make selling my gently used kids stuff at JBF consignment sales, I take surveys online, etc. for this.  Alaska is a bucket list destination so I'm really excited for it but 10 months is such a long time away!

We found out a couple weeks ago that Greg is the recipient of an all expenses paid, 7 night cruise for two courtesy of RBC (his employer) which will set sail in early January.  Every year, RBC charters out  a WHOLE ship for a week and holds their performance conference on board.  So we will be enjoying that this winter with 800 of RBC's finest and their guests.  CAN'T WAIT.  They have not announced the itinerary yet so I am very impatiently waiting to find out what our destinations will be.  We do know that the ship is the Celebrity Constellation and it will leave out of Ft. Lauderdale.  

Just a few pictures to share this time.  I literally have taken ONLY these pictures since Meredith's birthday party a month ago.  

Here's Meredith's Halloween countdown witch she made.  Pretty cute if you ask me.  

And look at this little cutie.  Her cuteness makes up for her 2-year-old stubbornness.  

Yesterday, my friend Amanda from Amanda Kellogg Photography took these pictures of the girls.  Love them!