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Happy Election Day! Here I go. I'm going to take a deep breath and---update my blog. Whew! I think I can do it. We've had a sickly but beautiful fall. The weather has been warm and sunny and is just now starting to turn cold. We've managed to catch just about every disease that has come our way from stomach flu to strep and I've decided I should get my motherhood status upgraded (maybe to sainthood??) for the amount of throw-up I've cleaned up in the past few weeks. Poor Hallie managed to cover the entire (walls, floor, etc.) east lobby of a theater during a play, and Jake got my entire cart full of groceries at the store last week. One nice thing about having them lose it in embarassingly public places is that the bulk of the clean up goes to the unfortunate employees who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mason has been sick for the past couple of days and started it off Sunday night by throwing up all over the table at family dinner over at my parents house. (I know, ew, luckily no one had started eating yet)Other than that he has managed to keep it limited to our house and our car. I miss those employees.... Jake is going in to have his tonsils out next Tuesday, we're hoping that after that we'll all be on the mend. But life hasn't been completely gruesome, here are some of the happy highlights of the past month. Mason and I got to chaperone Jake's pre-school class on their trip to the pumpkin patch.

We went on a wagon ride and ate donuts!

One of our favorite places to end up every Fall (or any other time of year) is Snowbird.

Here is our Dynamic Duo. Jake and Mason were adorable as Batman and Man-Man. I know what you're thinking--he's dressed as Robin. But Mason absolutely loved his costume unless we called him Robin. He insisted his name was Man-Man and ran around the house shouting "To the rescue!" I love Halloween!!!And this is our beautiful Tink. She put her magical party planning powers to use and put on a great party for all of her local cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. She planned it all out from who to invite, what games to play, and what we should eat. I just followed orders. We sure love our little fairy!

And our other little fairy....

Here are some more pics of Halloween & Hallie's Party.