October fun...

Going back to October right before Halloween Steph, Javier, all the kids and I went to a little roadside veggie stand to pick out pumpkins we were going to carve. The kids had fun picking out pumpkins on a cold windy day, or the adults had fun, the kids just wanted to get warm...Anyway, we shot a few pictures of the kids in the wagon and by some pumpkins. It was a quick and short visit but served the purpose.


Here are the pumpkins after we are all done carving them. I carved the cat with a pattern, Jav and Steph carved the center face with Boo, and Ryan carved the haunted house all the way to the right with a pattern. The last couple years we have begun to carve pumpkins with friends and it has been fun so I want to try to keep up this tradition.



This year Ellie didn't want to dig in and empty out the goop from the pumpkin like she did last year. Hudson, here in the red shirt, wasn't quite sure what to think about touching it. Eventually he did put his hand in and used a scraper to try to get stuff out. It was so cute watching him. Then there is Nathan who would crawl by the pumpkin but wasn't sure about touching it. He would get his hand so close but not actually touch it. He was hesitant but with encouragement he finally stuck his arm in and touched the slimies.

I realized my pictures are out of order. So this is the picture of the kids in the wagon at the pumpkin stand we went to. This blue snow suit with eyeballs stuck to the top was his halloween costume as Cookie Monster this year. It was great to have more than one child to celebrate the holiday with.