The Nelsons

Erica, Elsie, Evan and Emily (wow...four E's! How funny!) went door knocking today for the DFL. It was fun, but Emily must have been jinxed. Almost every door she went to no one was home (and two were watching the football game and wouldn't answer the door) and she almost fell down a flight of stairs - twice. It just wasn't her day. In the end, no injures, except to her pride.

Tonight we visited Bill Habedank's 100 Pumpkin Display here in Red Wing. It was amazing - its free with a canned food donation or monetary donation to our local Red Cross, and it is simply something worth seeing. Most people go see it on Halloween, but we thought we would skip the rush of people and go enjoy tonight instead.

For those of you that have seen "Pretty Red Wing," here is the classic view of the Mississippi River from Baypoint Park.

And of course, the display wouldn't be complete this year without some political pumpkins. Here we have the DFL symbol, Obama, Franken, Sarvi and Wollschlager. Amazing. They looked even better up close.

And Evan now has a rash around his mouth. Poor little fella. We thought it was from teething, but the doctor wasn't sure. He gave us some hydrocortizone cream and hopefully that will do the trick. (Oh, and it's definitely not an allergy - I was worried we would have to find the kitties a new home, but the doc said they weren't the cause.)

Sitting on the couch with my buddy, Jonas.

"C'mere Jonas!" (Jonas looks scared.)

And a silly picture with mom. A great end to a great day.