The Cat's Meow | Our Weekend

We had a little bit of an early Halloween this weekend. 

So, in reference to Halloween... if I'm being completely honest: I really have no desire to take my 19 month out trick-or-treating. Am I alone in that?  She's obviously not going to eat the candy (and I sure do not need it!) she has no concept of what to do for this little ritual of asking strangers for candy, we don't really have a neighborhood quite yet and...she goes to bed at 7!

However...  I was NOT about to miss out on dressing that cutie pie up in something super adorable... no indeed I was not! 

Our solution?
Hershey Park in the Dark! 

Hershey Park re-opens for 3 weekends in October where kiddos can come to the park, dressed in their favorite costume (or whatever they had lying around!) and ride the rides, see the Hershey's characters (who don their own halloween-esque attire, of course), stand in awe of life-sized holloween-themed themed light displays as well as a hill of dancing pumpkins and of course they can trick-or-treat in "Treatville" the little neighborhood of cute ghosts and goblins with friendly folks handing out candy.  

There is really so much to love about this photo. 

I promise I am not a spokesman for Hershey Entertainment. I just blog about them a lot! :) 
It's only natural since we live here and a lot of our activities include something put on by Hershey. I'm thankful for what they do! I've really fallen in love with the town anew now that I have a toddler to entertain! :) 

So Saturday evening the cousins made the trek to Hershey for a fun, much-anticipated, night at Hershey Park! 

Do not be fooled. That is not the real Iron Man. One would think it is but... it's only my oldest nephew Karsten. I'm sure of it. 

Sadly, Daddy couldn't join us in the park so he swung by to see his little kitten before we went in. :) Sweet daddy-daughter moments are purrrrrfect. ;) 

I can't say it was the perfect fall night. :) In reality.. it was the perfect mid-winters night. It was the absolute coldest night yet this season. I mean... it was freezing. My poor little girl was an icicle. 

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Yes. I put socks on my daughter's hands. It's October! We haven't bought winter gloves yet. Sheesh!

She loved it for a second. Clapped a few times...and then she hated it and ripped them off. 

I tried. 

But we had a good time riding some rides, collecting candy and being together! If you are in the area come check out Hershey Park one of the remaining weekends in October! Good times. 

Sunday was relaxing and sweet - except for the random snow that blew through.

Uh... no thanks! 

I feel like it was still summer-weather like last week and I was begging for colder, crisper weather. But SNOW and 34 degrees was NOT what I had in mind! :( None-the-less, we had a sweet morning at church and then did lots of relaxing! In the evening we had our monthly parenting class which is lead by our pastor and we just love it! I'm that student in the front row writing down every word and asking a million questions... you know the one. I just really don't want to screw Lucy up for life, ya know?  ;) But truly this is only the second class and I already feel like I have learned so much. Greg and I have definitely improved in our communication as it pertains to parenting and we love the chance to study all the Bible has to say about parenting! We are so thankful for our pastor, our church and the community of parents with whom we get to walk this road! 

Thank the Lord for Sundays! 

And now... I will leave you with my photo-dump of the cutest kitten in the litter thanks to some seriously last-minute DIY costume creating! :) 

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So the costume wasn't an immediate success... Lucy had to warm up to it a bit. 

  
Which took some dancing with aunt Kate - that's who she is watching and though you can't see the movement, she is mimicking Aunt Kate who is dancing and beat-boxing just out of view of the camera :) 

here is the link to my inspiration for this costume. 

Are you kitten me? How cute is this girl!? 

A big thanks to the Facebook community that urged me NOT to use sharpie on my child's face - the black eye-liner was genius. Let's just try and forget that I even considered using sharpie marker on that sweet face! 

It only made sense to add these little cuties to our photo shoot! 

She's kissing the kitten... not strangling it. I promise no animals were injured in the process!

I love this little "kitty". 
She kept saying her little "meow" sound imitating a cat. 
She's too much. Heart-eyes emojis are just flying around everywhere over here!