Kenzie's new dollhouse!

Our little girl is lucky to have such an awesome Aunt and Uncle!  Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Craig surprised Mackenzie with a gorgeous, hand crafted doll house that is out of this world!!  The craftsmanship and interior design in this doll house rivals anything we have ever lived in.  In fact, I think it should be more appropriately referred to as Kenzie's new Doll Home!

She has been quite busy playing with it, situating her tiny dolls throughout the home.  Jackson has also been enjoying it, although we don't need to put that out there for public consumption, as he would be upset about the hit to his rep!

Thanks so much Cheryl and Craig!!!

Family room, with hand stained hardwood floors and custom crafted fireplace mantel (and tiny Werner family portrait)

Mid century era kitchen

Nursery

Master bedroom with Juliet balcony

Entryway with ornate floor design

Bird's eye 

Shake roof and brick chimney

Street view.  Covered porch for drinking ice tea and listening to the ball game on the radio

 Wired for electricity... real functioning lights!

It even comes with its own view of the lake from the backyard!

Tinkerbelle and Captain Hook

The whole family had a swell time this Halloween.   We joined our next door neighbors, who were all dressed up as ranch-hands of one form or another (cowboy, cowgirl, cowgirl princess, farmer's wife, and suburban dad with a fedora hat mean to be something of a cowboy hat.)

Steph and I dressed up as ourselves, accompanied by Tink and Hook.

Mackenzie likes Halloween.  Jackson loves it, talks about it constantly, counts the days down, sings about it, generally obsesses about it.  So she had a fun time, he had an epic time.  They got a pretty solid haul of loot, and we were lucky enough that the one dry window amidst a week of rain fell right during trick or treat prime time.  In general, it was a perfect evening, with only two "Halloween Problems":  I got pixie dust all over my jacket from carrying a little fairy home from trick or treating, and later that same fairy cried because her cheeks were tired from chewing skittles.

 Happy Tinkerbelle with her light up wings and pixie dust!

The dread Captain Hook!

The full squad of trick or treaters ready to get some loot!

Enjoying the spoils from their adventure...

too many skittles = tired cheeks = crying fairy :(