Evy and Amelia at Sipsnstrokes

Amelia and her mom invited Evy to Sipsnstrokes today for an art class, and they had sooo much fun.  Aren't these Christmas tree paintings amazing?  Tracy and I are so impressed!!

Birthdays and Raking

Benjamin is quite the raker.

Uhhhh, Benjamin?

Apparently today was Rosie's and Old Bear's birthdays, who would have guessed??!!

A few days late on the pics but the Cowles had a GREAT Halloween!!  We had our fabulous friends the Balls over, my parents, and Beth's dad.  We headed out to Courtside for trick or treating (the houses are a little closer together, plus we have lots of friends in that neighborhood) while the three "grown ups" handed out candy and manned the scary music ipod selections... 

Ended the weekend with some fellow adoptive families, learned lots, shared lots, and had a GREAT time!!  It sure is nice that everyone we meet who's adopting from Ethiopia is way cool; that is working out so
nice :-).  AB I hope you are recovering from Benjamin's dentistry skills!!

Morgan and the kids are so talented in their pumpkin carving skills...

Our Egyptian pharoah (he's obsessed with Egypt right now, can tell you anything you would ever want to know), and our gorgeous pink leopard.

Annual Halloween with the Ball gang.