The Haunted Ginger Bread House.... boooooo!!! ;)

Who doesn't LOVE this time of year?!?!? It's one of my favorites!!! The other day I was going through the Sunday ads and noticed that Cost Plus Market had Haunted Ginger Bread Houses on sale and I thought to myself I have to pick one of these up!! See as a kid I never had the chance to make any type of ginger bread home Haunted or otherwise so as an adult I had to check out what I had been missing. Breann and I went to town and created what I think is an AWESOME house!!!

Breann decorating the assembled haunted house!!

Our finished haunted MASTERPIECE!!! ;)

P.S. Should you try this with your favorite little one here's a tip. Put the house together, put it in the fridge to harden up, THEN decorate it.... MUCH EASIER!!!

Our day at the L.A. zoo!

The other weekend we decided to check out the L.A. zoo, what a great place!! This was Savanna's first trip, Duane had been there a number of times and I actually don't have any memory of ever going to this zoo but I am certain as a child I must have visited in some form of a field trip one would think!! I was very impressed at how beautiful this park is, it is so incredibly large!! Something tells me that I doubt that we made it through most of it but we sure did try! Here are some of my favorite pictures.

It had been a few years since Duane had been there so we had to check out the map first to find our favorite guys!! Here we were looking for the hungry, hungry, hippos!

Savanna Banana checking out the one and only hippo at the zoo! The things was sleeping and hardly moved but she loved it and that's all that mattered!!

The next place we stopped was the Giraffe exhibit. They're sooooo big and tall!

Here are two of the baby giraffes! So cute!!

And last but not least, Savanna on the way home acting like one of the monkeys we saw at that zoo. What a wonderful day!!!

Our second trip to the pumpkin patch!!!

I absolutely love the fall, there is just something about this time of year that is amazing. Tonight we decided to take Savanna to the pumpkin patch just down the street. It was a little chilly but we bundled up and had a wonderful time!!!

Savanna loves all kinds of animals but she especially loves riding the ponies!! She took two turns around the classic pony ride. This little guy was her favorite and the biggest pony of them all!!!

After the pony rides we headed over to the petting zoo where Savanna fed two billy goats!!






I love this picture of the three of us... I always feel strange asking well a stranger to take a photo for us but I just had to, you never know when we'll stop off at a pumpkin patch again this year!!! ;)