First Vikings Game!!

When we found out we were going to have a baby, we spent a lot of time tracking down Elizabeth's athletic jerseys. She had her Viking's jersey long before I think we knew she was going to be a girl. She now fits in it well but since she is so skinny, I have a feeling we won't need to scour the Twin Cities for a new one anytime soon.

We still have our season football tickets but she won't be going to games for a long, long time. She really likes to watch the games on TV though...mostly because I think there's a lot of action to see. She usually has other activities to attend to so she doesn't watch too long. Usually it has to do with dumping the dog's toy box over (see toy mess behind her).

Sever's Corn Maze

We took Elizabeth to the local corn maze in Shakopee, MN this year. Jason and I have been saying for years that we were going to go and walk the corn stalks, get lost, get sunburned, and spend hours trying to get out. That didn't happen because they pretty much dummy-proof it and give you a map. Elizabeth thought it was pretty cool and they have a ton of stuff for little kids at this place. They have a petting zoo that had goats, lion cubs (no petting allowed there), ostriches, llamas, spider monkeys (no petting went on there either...those things are mean), kangaroos, and some horses. Sadly with all the other cool animals that she won't get many opportunities to pet often again, she decided the goats were the coolest. She had seen goats one other time when we took her on her first zoo trip so we think that spawned her new interest in goats. We will likely own one someday now and I hope it eats the grass so we don't have to spend time mowing it again (that's a joke, I wouldn't know what to do with a goat). She also got to see the pig races, the giant corn pen that you could play in, and a big slide.

Elizabeth's Halloween Costume

So we have spent days and hours thinking about the perfect Halloween outfit for Elizabeth's First Halloween. We decided to go with an animal theme since she will probably want to be someone or some character the next few years. We wanted to make sure she wasn't going to dress up as some mainstream animal, so we chose this: