September means all things fall - back to school, fall decorations, and pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread! It has been a great transition to the school year so far and the girls are doing awesome in the 7th grade. We kicked off the month with a Midei family visit, celebrating Thanksgiving all together on Labor Day weekend since we couldn't get together later in the year. It was great to have everyone together and spend time together. We mostly just spent time together, playing games, catching up, but we did an immersive V8 activity into NASA which was pretty neat. Not too many people can say they went to space over Labor day!
September flew by after the Midei visit because of school and all the activities. October is the family's favorite month of the year. It begins to feel like fall, we eat pumpkin bread every week and of course we have two exciting birthdays to celebrate! We decided to go big to celebrate the girl's 13th birthday and they wanted to do Harry Potter/Universal Studios. We also added two days of park hopper to make the trip even more fun. After our 3 days of crazy and exhausting fun we will head to see Grammy and Poppy in Florida and they have lots of fun things in store.
October is a big month in our household. This year we celebrated Aubrey and Avery turning 13! It is hard to believe they are teenager already. It was a big birthday celebration and definitely will have life long memories. Their big gift was an iPhone. They were super excited. The school schedule changed and included a fall break so we decided to take advantage and let them pick what they wanted to do. They chose Universal Studios. We added on two days of park hopper passes which allowed us to hit 4 parks over the weekend riding all the new rides and the best of the best. Then on their birthday we ventured over to Universal Studios and lived it up for the day. It was a great long weekend celebrating their birthday. We then traveled to Grammy and Poppy's house for a vacation from our vacation. They spoiled them big time all week. It was a week long celebration and even I was spoiled too with a special manicure and facial. The kids enjoyed playing pickleball, bocci ball, time at the pool, cards (poker, blackjack, canasta), and the getting the royal treatment. We also enjoyed time with Aunt Dee Dee, Uncle Mike, Aunt Maida, Uncle Ron, James and Dante. It was good to see everyone. In October we also enjoyed pumpkin carving, fall pictures and last but not least trick or treating. Aubrey was a cow and Avery was an angel. October is by far our favorite month of the year and we sitll have two birthday party celebrations in November!
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