Halloween 2011 and Other Stuff

I’m not doing the best job of posting things here, but we’ve not done anything really extraordinary. Life with Aurelia is pretty much just attempting to find a routine and make sure the boys’ routines stay roughly the same. Aurelia is 8 weeks old today. She’ll be 2 months old on the 5th of November. She’s changed a lot already. There are tons of pictures on the picture page of the site. You can also check out my Picasa page for those family members that want to download or send pictures somewhere for printing. It has some built-in links for that stuff. The link is over there on the left of the home page.

A few of the things we’ve done over the past couple of months…

Back in June I took Rowan to the Tulsa Rocketry launch and watched them set off a bunch of rockets. The next weekend Chris, Rowan, and I bought a kit and built a little rocket. Then the burn ban went into effect. So we waited until finally the had a rocket launch again in October. We went to the launch site and launched our rocket 3 times. I thought it was very cool. Here’s Rowan with our rocket before it’s maiden voyage.

View at Picasa 16-Oct-2011 13:46, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 10.0, 39.0mm, 0.005 sec, ISO 100

Hopefully we will get a chance to build a bigger rocket and launch it at the next rocket launch.

We took some time during the boys’ fall break to travel over to Siloam Springs so that Aurelia could meet her great-grandparents for the first time. It was her first big trip in the car and she did really well. We took a few photos there.

View at Picasa 20-Oct-2011 12:37, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.5, 34.0mm, 0.02 sec, ISO 2000	View at Picasa 20-Oct-2011 12:38, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.5, 34.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 3200	View at Picasa 20-Oct-2011 12:38, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.5, 30.0mm, 0.033 sec, ISO 3200
View at Picasa 20-Oct-2011 12:39, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.0, 25.0mm, 0.033 sec, ISO 2500	View at Picasa 20-Oct-2011 14:30, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.5, 35.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 400	View at Picasa 20-Oct-2011 14:45, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 5.0, 34.0mm, 0.02 sec, ISO 2500
View at Picasa 20-Oct-2011 14:45, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 5.0, 41.0mm, 0.033 sec, ISO 3200	View at Picasa 20-Oct-2011 14:47, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.5, 32.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 400	View at Picasa 20-Oct-2011 16:21, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.5, 37.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 400

Aurelia also got to go to church for the first time yesterday. She wore a dress for the first time. Of course, she was very popular there and she behaved very well being around a bunch of new people and a very loud organ. She slept right through a lot of the music during the service.

View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 10:26, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.5, 25.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 400

After church and lunch, we headed home for a little rest and then it was back to church for Trunk or Treat. Rowan got to dress up in his Captain America costume and we dressed Aurelia up in her costume (I say she’s a snow leopard). I took a few photos at the event. Aurelia slept all the way through it.

View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 16:59, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.0, 24.0mm, 0.005 sec, ISO 100	View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 17:00, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 11.0, 48.0mm, 0.005 sec, ISO 400	View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 17:01, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 6.3, 23.0mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 100
View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 17:02, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 10.0, 28.0mm, 0.005 sec, ISO 400	View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 17:03, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 8.0, 27.0mm, 0.005 sec, ISO 400	View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 17:07, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 9.0, 29.0mm, 0.006 sec, ISO 100
View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 17:07, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 5.6, 28.0mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 100	View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 17:09, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 8.0, 28.0mm, 0.005 sec, ISO 100	View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 17:33, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 5.0, 41.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 100
View at Picasa 30-Oct-2011 17:47, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.0, 21.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 400

Finally, today was Halloween. We usually trick or treat in Ali’s parents’ neighborhood because it is nearby and larger than our neighborhood. We met up there with the Gorman kids and after dinner went out for some trick or treating. Rowan did really well. I had to dump his candy bag in the bottom of Aurelia’s stroller once because it was getting too full for him to carry around. The Gormans all dressed up this year. They had a Star Wars theme going, except for Lilli who was a very cute little angel. Here’s a few of the photos I took tonight.

View at Picasa 31-Oct-2011 18:09, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.5, 34.0mm, 0.02 sec, ISO 100	View at Picasa 31-Oct-2011 18:09, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 5.6, 33.0mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 400	View at Picasa 31-Oct-2011 18:11, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.5, 29.0mm, 0.02 sec, ISO 100
View at Picasa 31-Oct-2011 18:14, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 5.0, 40.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 400	View at Picasa 31-Oct-2011 18:52, Canon Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 4.5, 30.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 400

So I think that brings me up to right now. I’ll be surprised if I get another post on here before Christmas. But I’m always updating and adding photos to the online albums. That’s what I think is the most interesting stuff on this site anyway. So check those out often. I am always taking pictures of the kids. Until next time…take care!