Princess Elmo takes on the Eden Prairie Mall

Halloween 2011: The Rasmussen's opted to take on the rough alleys of the the Eden Praire mall. We witnessed masked children, frazzled parents and overwhelmed Halloween newbies at the mall. This was a very smart decision on our part. Not only were we minutes from home, Ariya was able to show off her Princess Elmo costume in a warm, relatively controlled Halloween environment while fulfilling her parents annual free-candy quota.

Whoa.

We still don't know who had more fun, mommy or Ariya.

"So... I dress up real cute, carry a pumpkin around & you give me candy? Sounds good!"

Thank you for the candy, huge gorilla.

Pumpkins!!

On Sunday October 30th, Ariya & mommy ventured over to the Horner's to carve our pumpkin with Adam & Ian. We had so much fun! Ian was very busy with decorating his pumpkin while Aunt Kristina, Debbie & I gutted the seeds & gook out of ours for carving.

End result? AWESOME Halloween decorations!

Oh, this is mine? Thanks! 

Ian & ALL of the pumpkins!! 

Uncle Chris has us captivated... 

Adam & his momma - chillin 

Garcon - this  is not what I ordered... 

Spooky Ghosts 

Yes; that is me with my hand in a pumpkin. My mother never thought she'd see the day... 

Fall Fun I l

Loves the slide! 

Home - dominating Daddy. 

MEA day off with the Gargano's!

I love my cousin, Joseph! 

Picasso ain't got nothin on this kid.... 

BIG slide at the zoo

Little girl at the bottom of a big slide! 

OTTERS! 

Brummm brummm - tractor time! 

Hi from the Zoo Farm

Finally - The Elmo Princess Custom has arrived. 

RenFest

My 3 girls - Ariya, Laura & Clare

Everyone needs a little glitter!

Ari & C-Bear

Laura on the super jump

Clare on the super jumper

Holy cow - what a day! I saw EVERYTHING! Knights, Princesses, and other characters - this place is great!

Day Trippin

The first day of October, the 3 of us took a little road-trip down to Minnehaha Falls to take in the scenery and enjoy the beautiful fall day.

Silly daddy!

Such a pretty sight!

Hippy Chick!

Two lovely ladies...

Hard to believe she's only 18 months old!

Remote - you are MINE!

Time to cheer on the Vikings!

Ariya was all pumped for a Vikings game; we won't mention their record but at least we've got team spirit!

Pre-Game party face.

Very concerned about Daddy's fantsy line up...

Just cleaning up after a messy first quarter.

TOUCH DOWN!

We live to fight another day, Team.

Fun pics from the park...



Chillin in the stroller - ready to play!

Here was a fun morning at the park...

Weeeeee! All by myself....

Such a pretty girl!



Holy cow! I love to slide!