Whew, what a weekend! I knew our October would be busy, but man, it is BUSY! We already had Saturday afternoon tickets to the circus and Sunday morning tickets to the pumpkin patch, but then we added in Friday afternoon tickets to Saturday Night, and somehow fit in normal weekend stuff too. I’m beat but feeling happy 😊 And now we are headed into Dempsey’s birthday week, so the fun (and chaos 😂) doesn’t stop here! Our almost-four-year-old is equal parts frustrating and amazing right now. I am either arguing with him about something or just staring at him in awe. I love him very much 🥺

Joey and I saw a 3 PM showing of Saturday Night on Friday and we both really liked it! There were a few corny/tedious parts but for the most part, it was just a blast. I thought they did such a good job with the casting and even though you know the outcome of the show, it was still exciting to see all the chaos of opening night. I need to dig into Lorne Michaels career a bit more now though. I just listened to a podcast on this one and the panelists were NOT fans, but hey, I was 😂 Picked up wings on our way home and had a good dinner with our babies before they went off to bed and we watched Thursday’s episode of BB and half of GBBO.

Started Saturday with the breakfast of champions: ketchup packets! Don’t ask 😂 But then we had waffles for real breakfast, Joey and I both went on a run, Joey did laundry, I made some chicken noodle soup and then we all got cleaned up and headed out. The circus is back!! I think Lydia had the best time out of all of us. She was PUMPED!!!! Dempsey was a little less interested than we had thought, but he still had fun. I’m glad we went. Back at home, aforementioned soup and then we took a walk around the neighborhood looking for Halloween houses. Watched the rest of GBBO after the kids went to bed then went to bed ourselves.

Sunday at the pumpkin patch! Dempsey was off all morning, so he didn’t want to ride the barrel train or go in the jump zone but Lydia had a traumatizing little ride 😱 Both of them had fun in the pumpkin patch though and seemed better from there. Dempsey picked out some white pumpkins for us and Lydia’s selection process required standing on all of them 😂 Afterward, I took Lydia to jump and Dempsey took everyone else through the corn maze before our snack break. The mini donuts were amazing! We had to drag all three children our of Cinderella’s pumpkin carriage at the end but Dempsey got a picture with the princess and he said that was his favorite part 🥺 Lydia took a car nap on the way home and then the rest of the day was a blur of chores (got my car washed inside and out, plus I took both car seats outs and really cleaned them!), followed by a good dinner of root beer pulled pork sliders and steak fries. The babies watched a Minnie Mouse Halloween cartoon then got baths and went to bed. Joey and I watched the Big Brother finale and I’m soooooo happy with how it ended! I’m looking forward to this week/weekend and I hope you all enjoy it too!