I hope you all had a spooktacular Halloween!  We started the evening off at our church’s Halloween festival where the kids got to play carnival games, bounce, slide, enjoy some face painting and get a good start on filling their buckets with Halloween candy.  Then we came home and made it around one block of our neighborhood before coming home to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters.

My husband and I just returned from a trip to New England.  We went for my husband’s class reunion at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, but decided to turn it into a little getaway for the two of us.  We flew up a couple of days early and stayed in Portsmouth, NH.  We stayed downtown and walked through the entire town in one afternoon.  It was such a quaint little town.

We drove down the coastline into northern Massachusetts and back up the coast to Kittery, Maine on the second day.  Beautiful!!  I’m a sucker for sailboats in the harbor, sandy beaches, lighthouses and churches with tall steeples.  We decided to take the long way up to Hanover, NH and drove up through the White Mountains.  The colors were stunning!  I couldn’t take enough pictures.

We stayed at a B&B in Lyme, NH for the weekend of the reunion.  It was tucked away up a long gravel road and sat perched up on a hill along the Connecticut River.  They had adirondack chairs outside that you could just sit in and enjoy the scenery.  Did I mention that we didn’t take our kids?  There would have been no relaxing if they had accompanied us!  I missed them like crazy, but I definitely enjoyed not having to worry about naps, sippy cups, meal schedules, etc…

It was great to see all of our friends that we met while we lived in New Hampshire for 2 years!  It was also nice to play tourist and drive around and enjoy the beautiful fall foliage that New England is so well know for.  Here are a few highlights from our trip.

Are you all as excited as I am that Autumn has finally arrived?!  We were blessed with wonderful weather this weekend here in Tulsa and my family definitely took advantage of it.  Saturday we headed out to Claremore for a balloonfest.  They lit up the balloons after the sun went down, which made it even better.

Sunday we celebrated the first official day of Autumn with some fun family time in the backyard which included playing on the play set and s’mores!

Happy Friday!  I’m linking up with Christina, April, Darci and Natasha for another Five on Friday.

This week, I decided to try my hand at Instagram once again.  I think I downloaded the app on my phone over a year ago and I may have used it 4 or 5 times since then.  I don’t take many pictures with my phone, but I am trying to do it more because it really is more accessible than my DSLR.  So this week’s five items are all Instagram pics.

1.  Now that my daughter has started kindergarten, I am enjoying some quality one-on-one time with my son.  Here he is during our lunch date the other day.

 

2.  I am so proud of this girl!  She’s wrapping up her 3rd week of kindergarten and I can’t believe how much she has learned already.  Muy bien!

3.  Independent reading time!

4.  It may still be in the 90’s here this week, but I’m soooo ready for fall.  I stopped by Bath & Body Works and can’t wait to start burning these!

5.  Mid-week FroYo date