and the Bean's take first place!

Well the Bean's had another busy week!

Thursday night Presten and I went to the Faith and Action Gala at Rockwoods in Otsego. They had a silent and live auction; along with dinner and presentation. We ended the night with a group called the Happiness Emporium. They put on a very entertaining show for us. My sister came up for the night to watch the kids. Jaxson and Vada had so much fun with her. She even got to come grocery shopping with us on Friday. I don't think that she will be doing that again anytime soon..it was quite the experience for her.

Saturday was a big day! We had our Otsego Park and Rec Pumpkin Day event. I had to be at the event early to get everything set up. Presten had to work so thank goodness Vicky was able to come for a bit to help with the kiddos. I was not able to stay for the whole event because Vada was getting a little fussy, but there were so many people that came that we needed to get another 400 pumpkins delivered! So it was a success!

Saturday night we headed to Chris and Kristen's for their "Fall Party". We had a pumpkin carving contest that we WON and by a landslide! We came as TEAM BEAN and were ready for the show down! It took a couple hours to finish our masterpiece, but in the end it was all worth it! We stayed the night at their house, because we had a birthday party in St. Paul this afternoon. We had so much fun at our first slumber party! They even made us a great breakfast this morning!

Then it was off to Como Zoo for Nishad and Arun's birthday party. It was really nice. They put on a little educational presentation and then we had pizza and cake. It was a such a great way to spend a beautiful afternoon and end the weekend.

My sister met us a Como today to give us a whole bunch of apples raspberries, potatoes, pumpkins and squash from Bill's parents garden. I already made up my first batch of raspberry jam! I will be busy making applesauce this week!

Jaxson had a pretty good week at preschool this week. He even sat for school pictures and went to Spanish with no tears. We are making progress!

Vada has a couple more teeth coming in so she had a runny nose, but that is not slowing her down!

We'll off to bed early tonight! Have a great week! The Bean's!