Date night! (AGAIN!!!)

Aaron and I were so excited when we heard that one of our "Desert Island Disc" favorite artists was coming to town. We bought tickets IMMEDIATELY!!! After dropping off the kiddos at Grandma and Grandpa's, we had dinner at Romano's Macaroni Grill in Northgate. Then it was off to the concert. There was a mix up with when the doors were supposed to open (tickets said 8pm, artists thought it was 9pm), so we ended up standing in line outside for a good half hour and it was FREEZING. But once inside, we got pretty good seats and enjoyed the show. He is such a talented performer. (www.martinsexton.com in case you wanna check him out.) It was the perfect date night!

Trick or Treat!

Here's the boys giving me their best scary faces. I hope you're not so frightened that you have to leave our blog. They really had fun helping carve the pumpkins this year.


Last night we carved our pumpkins. I decided to buy the little carving kits with the tools and the patterns this year. I was amazed at how much easier they are then they look! I was pretty impressed with how they turned out.


This year Landon is going to be a pirate and Levi is going to be a cowboy. The boys had their halloween party at preschool today and got to do some trick-or-treating there as well.

Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins

We decided to try out a different patch this year since we've been alternating between the same couple for a few years now. I still don't know if it really paid off, but it was pretty memorable. First, it took longer to get there than expected, including a few wrong turns. Then upon arrival, it was much smaller than the website made it appear. And of course it started to rain.

Levi chose this pumpkin all by himself.

Landon had some help choosing this since he was pretty much cold, wet and miserable. He warmed up though once we got some hot cocoa.

The most memorable part was this mini ferris wheel. The ride operator INSISTED that even the adults ride... and so we did. Since nobody else was in line we got an extra long ride and got extra wet. I think next year we might play it safe and go to the old patch!

Date Night

Last night Aaron and I enjoyed a date night in downtown Seattle. We found a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant called Bruno's (it was Italian) and had yummy calzones for dinner. Then we walked over to the Showbox and saw Gavin DeGraw. He was amazing! He is such a natural performer. It was really fun because he played songs from his old album and the new one. We had just purchased the new album before we left on our end of summer road trip, so by the time we came home we pretty much had it memorized! We got a pretty good place to stand (since we stood in line for half an hour) and really enjoyed the show. (Well, with the exception of the drunk lady next to us who insisted on doing a funky chicken type dance during ever fast song! Oh well, it made it all the more memorable!) The only real bummer is that I grabbed the camera on our way out the door, but forgot the battery sitting in the charger, so we have no pictures!