While dinner was cooking, Marin, Riley and I decorated pails with Halloween stickers, Hannah Montana stickers, Disney princess stickers, jewels and more!
When dinner was ready, we lit candles and had “wine” and challah for Shabbat.
Then we decorated cookies and finished the trick-or-treat buckets.
Decorating our Halloween cookies
Before we knew it, it was Marin’s bedtime. It was very nice to spend time with Fara and Hunter- between camp and the holidays in Florida, I had not seen them since July. We had lots to catch up on!
Saturday was rainy and grey. David and I spent pretty much the entire day cleaning out our loft and storage closet. I know it’s usually called “spring cleaning’ but we weren’t able to get to it until fall- so this was our ‘autumn attack’ on our junk. It was a dusty activity but very productive and ultimately successful. We made several trips to the dumpster and managed to create a lot more ‘living space’ in the loft area. No pics of this activity- it wasn’t a pretty sight.
While we were cleaning up our place in Maryland, wedding preparations for Hayley and Shawn were in full swing in New York. Saturday morning was their Auf-Ruf in Dix Hills.
It would have been a lot of traveling if we had gone up to Long Island this weekend and then to NYC for their wedding next weekend, so we did not attend. However, Shawn’s sister Alana sent me this picture from the event so I could post it here. Thanks so much!
Our reward for all of the housework was a (somewhat belated) birthday dinner for David at Capital Grille with Becky and Aaron. Our last visit to this restaurant was not a good experience at all, but this one more than made up for the last time. Our meal and service were excellent, and the wines we had were fantastic. I will post pictures of dinner soon.
After our big night out, we slept in on Sunday morning. In the afternoon, we made yummy grilled chicken nachos and headed to Clarksburg to watch football with the Baeckers. While the boys spent the rest of the afternoon tracking their fantasy football scores, Becky and I went to Larriland Farm for apple picking and their Fall Festival.
In addition to pumpkins, hayrides, a straw maze and haunted “boo barn” for children, you could pick your own seasonal vegetables (including apples, beets, spinach and cauliflower). In their barn, they were selling fresh apple cider, sweet potatoes, several varieties of squash, jams and fudge. There were fresh kettle corn and apple fritters as well! Becky and I stuck to the apples and had a really nice afternoon outdoors.
We returned the Baecker’s place to watch the Giants game and put our apples to good use. Check out the apple cake we made- it came out pretty tasty!
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