Happy Halloween

(can't you tell - it is a witch with a smoking cauldron)

We have had very few trick or treaters in our hood, 3 so far. (Update, now 4) (further update, we have had about a dozen so far).

Cody is off at a party with his girlfriend, Maggie. Graham at a party with his girlfriend, Amara.
Let's not talk about how old we must be to have teenagers.



Slade has taken Seby & Zane off to get their sugar. They have been so excited about Halloween. We have been counting down the days for a couple weeks now.

We are preparing for our new addition, a chocolate goldendoodle puppy! I got the crate today. It is set up off the kitchen. It feels very hectic because we will be leaving our sweet puppy just 10 days after we get her! We are off to California to be with family for the holiday, which was planned before the timing of this puppy. It seemed better to keep the puppy at our house instead of send her back to the breeder for the week. So, between Erika and Mariana, we will leave her at the house. It feels like a much better solution. We are able to get her a ticket to fly with us - but it seems too crazy to bring a puppy on a vacation.

We have been "trying out names" for the puppy. It really helps to have some current pictures of her. We have been thinking of going with Coco - but now that I have "tried it out" I'm thinking no, it isn't right. It sounds too much like Cody, and I realized I actually call him Co Co sometimes. So that seemed weird. Right now we are trying out Molly. It might take us some time with her to figure it out.

Seby & Zane are very excited about getting a puppy - they were just dying to get inside the crate - so I said ok, just this once.



Slade, Seby & Zane cut pumpkins the other night. They all did an awesome job, my favorite is the one Slade made.