Even Superheroes Need a Nap

Sadie's Third Birthday

Wow! I'm so surprised at how behind I am at posting pictures. Sadie has been three for almost 3 weeks now, and she wears three very well. She is loud, demanding, opinionated, stubborn, but she's also hilarious and pretty darn cute. Anyways, moving on to the all-important three year old birthday party. Of course Sadie had to have a princess themed birthday party.She asked all of the guests-of-honor to arrive in their very best princess outfits. Sadie's grandma came as a vampire Queen, Nile made a beautiful princess and Zoe came as batgirl wearing a wolf hat, but what else would one expect from a girl who also goes by the name "Pete" (don't worry, Sadie approved this beforehand. But, Sadie is sort of convinced that Zoe is a boy, even though she has been told numerous times that Zoe is in-fact a girl.)I even managed to pull off being a princess quite well. The kids decorated lovely foam crowns with jewels, and glitter and princess stickers:As you can see, they turned out lovely. I wish I had a shot with them all wearing their finished crowns, but the glitter was still a little wet when everyone left:Yum...pizza!The much anticipated gift-opening which resulted in lots of princess gear and things for dancing and things for bouncing:The cake. Grandma pulled it off again:

Bad Day for a Hike

It was a mild weekend by Minnesota standards, so we thought it would be a great idea to go for a hike. It was the opening weekend for deer hunting, so we knew we had to go somewhere safe. "Let's go to a State Park," we thought. "There won't be deer hunters there." WRONG. I guess they do let hunters hunt in state parks in Minnesota. When we arrived at Itasca State Park, they handed us a map of where the hunters are supposed to be and then gave us all bright orange vests "just in case." Needless to say, I was not very gung-ho to go on a hike after that. So, we had our picnic, went on a short walk then on a nice scenic drive to see men in orange with gutted deer in the back of their trucks. It started to rain anyways. It was a bust, but on the good side, Sadie took a nap on the way there and on the way home.

Happy Halloween

We spent Halloween at Grandma and Grandpa Sperle's new house in Napoleon. Trick-or-treating was kind of a bust, but they got enough candy to last several months anyways. You'll have to thank Auntie Paula for the pictures because I forgot my camera!! Sadie went as as a very scary witch. She loved having her face painted, but she hated having her face washed! Luckily her witch costume was large enough to wear her winter coat underneath it. Sadie was pretty tuckered out and fell asleep at 6:00!The cousins: Miss Napoleon, an M&M, a witchy skittle, a witch, a knight and a jelly fish!