A fabulous Halloween

Halloween was so much fun this year!! Ashlee was Minnie Mouse and Baby G was a pumpkin painted on my belly :) 

 Thanks to my artist who did such a great job despite the kicking and moving around of Baby G :)

Our friends from Seattle came out for a few days to spend the holiday with us, it's kinda a tradition now, they came last year too!! They have a 2 year old as well who is only 2 weeks younger than Ashlee, his name is Gevin.

Our weather was perfect, not too cold not too hot. It was nice for them because Seattle was cold and rainy!!

Halloween started out by going to a Halloween/costume party for the kiddo's through my mom's group. We all had a blast and it was so cute to see all the kids dressed up in their costumes. It's amazing to see the transformation in only a year. This time they really enjoyed dressing up and knew who they were dressed up as.

We had people come over in the evening to take the kiddo's out and go trick or treating with us. The Olsen family came dressed as pirates and they had a new addition to there family Maddy. Our guests from Seattle were farmers and a cow...pretty funny!!

Parenting is the most rewarding and hardest job you'll ever have and anyone with kids will agree with me....Jake and I enjoyed watching Ashlee have so much fun running from house to house saying trick o treat, really having no idea what Halloween is about but understanding that her little basket is filling up with candy. Poor little thing had no idea that her mommy was going to eat most of it :)

Needless to say mommy and baby G benefited the most on the candy part of Halloween!!

Next year will be even better, Ashlee will understand the concept of Halloween even more and Baby G will almost be one, so crazy to say!!

Just thought I'd add some pictures from last year to compare how big the kiddo's have gotten

When you consider 100 degree's to be cool

You know you live in AZ when you think 100 degree's is "cooling down" but when you have gone through more than 30 days of over 110 it really does feel great :) This has been one of the worst summers in AZ since I've lived here...being pregnant didn't help either!!! and maybe the fact I have a very active 2 year old who loves the outdoors and has to stay indoors, she would stand at the slider everyday and beg to go outside. "I'm sorry honey its too hot" I must say every single morning and evening. Thank goodness we were able to keep ourselves very busy this summer with lots of indoor stuff. I'm involved in a very active mom's group which has stuff going on everyday, we do Kindermusic once a week which Ashlee absolutely loves, many trips to the children's museum, libraries and aquariums. Now we can look forward to parks, the zoo (we can finally use our annual memberships) splash pads, and wagon rides around the neighborhood. My morning started out with my drinking my coffee and reading the paper on our patio while Ash played with her toys...we went to a splash pad and park in the later morning with our moms group and the kids had a blast running around and being outdoors. During the day we bathed the dogs while the hubby smoked some ribs and sausage, and during the evening we sat outside enjoyed some rain and cooler temperatures, and amazing food, it was a great day and evening for the Goddard family :)

Even though it did get to 100 degree's it was bearable and we were able to enjoy almost a day of being outdoors. Let's just hope these temperatures stay the same or get cooler...we are really looking forward to our favorite time of year..."Autumn" we have Halloween, Thanksgiving and of course the arrival of Baby G :)