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I swear, I think I'm the worst blogger ever lately. So, let me catch you up on October! Here's the weekend-by-weekend play -

The month started with our Fall Fling at work. It was tons of fun, especially for the kids. Unfortunately, I really killed the muscles in my back, which has pretty much made for a miserable month. That afternoon, we left for the beach for David's birthday! The beaches at Panama City are beautiful, but honestly, we both agreed that we probably wouldn't want to go back. For one, it was biker week, which made for tons of traffic & noise. Madelyn, in all her appropriate hilariousness, looked at two of the bikers and said, "Yucky, trash." She's such a mess!

Lovey kissy - happy birthday daddy!

Of course, she was inseparable from the pool, even though it was FREEZING! You got used to it after a while though.

For David's birthday, we went to a really cool restaurant called the Boat Yard. Besides the yummy food, the scenery was beautiful! This was one of the tour boats that was parked there.

More pool time in the cute bathing suit that David hated.

We passed this restaurant on the way down. So next time you can't decide where you want to go for dinner...here it is! This is a family joke, so if you don't find it funny...well, sorry.

For the 2nd weekend, we had birthday party fun! Madelyn helped celebrate Aidan's birthday in the bouncy house. Of course, the big kids enjoyed it too =)

3rd weekend - David was able to get Boo at the Zoo tickets again this year, so we had a repeat of fun with friends! Here are our 2 peas in a pod.

My cute little ladybug's first sucker. Yum-o.

And no, your eyes aren't messing up. The carousel this year was in black light. And it went backwards. Talk about messing with your head!

4th weekend - we had a visit from some of my family. They had not seen Madelyn in over a year, so it was lots of fun. Madelyn also got to show off her costume at out church Fall Festival on Sunday. It was lots of fun!

Today (5th weekend), we went to the pumpkin patch at Old Baker Farm. This was our first visit to there. Madelyn enjoyed getting "lost" in the corn maze, seeing animals, swinging, the hay ride, and of course finding the perfect pumpkin!

If only this was a video, you would hear my sweet child saying, "Hey pumpkin" as she pet it like an animal. Too sweet.

Found it!

Got our pumpkins, and we're ready to go!

Tonight, David & I finally celebrated his birthday by going to The Melting Pot - our favorite celebration spot. We had sort of been holding out until they had the French-themed special I've been hearing about for over a month, but as you can see, we didn't really have any opportunity to go otherwise. It was SO worth it!

So that's October in a nutshell. Sorry over the overload if pictures, but honestly I weeded these down out of 239 so just be happy I didn't give you ALL of those =) November is (literally) right around the corner!