Can you stand any more pictures?!?

Introducing Minnie Mouse...

The first two pictures were from dress up at Gymboree. The third one was from Halloween night. I couldn't get her to look at the camera.

Alyssa had a blast trick-or-treating. She just loved running around outside and taking candy from strangers....um, yeah, I don't know if that is such a good thing...LOL! She wore herself out and got a nice stash of candy for mom and dad...hee hee! Of course we are going to share some with her. She just loved carrying her pumpkin bucket and Halloween light around.

And she learned a new word yesterday...cookie!! It is so cute and we kept telling her that she was getting cookies at the houses so she was running around saying "cookie", "cookie".

And finally I got a "before" picture of our back yard. It is kind of dark because it gets dark around here at like 5:30 now since the time change and I took it when I got home from work today. In case they come tomorrow to start working.

I keep thinking about how the last three years at this time we would have a 3 foot swimming pool of leaves in our back yard from the huge tree that we cut down. I am soo glad that we don't have to rake those up this year or any other year from now on!!!

Oh yeah, and I totally know we are going to have almost no yard left after we build a garage. But, my thoughts are, if we have enough room for a kiddie swimming pool and a small swingset, we are set. Plus, there will be more driveway room for riding bikes.