Halloween Festivities

Our Fall festivities leading up to Halloween included the Pumpkin Patch, pumpkin carving, and then finally, the big night of Trick-or-Treating.

Pumpkin Patch

Checking out the chickens

 Pony rides

 A little help from Mimi

 "Driving" the antique tractor

 The yearly attempted pumpkin picture...I must say this one isn't too bad compared with previous years

 Hayride

 

 My silly boys

 Pumpkin Carving

Ben and the boys moved the messy part of cleaning out the pumpkin onto the deck. While Ethan couldn't wait to stick his hand in the pulp, Caden much preferred watching from the sidelines so that he could keep his hands clean.

 Then they moved to the kitchen table for the carving. Daddy said he would carve both Ethan and Caden their own pumpkin so each boy got to pick out what they wanted their pumpkin to look like and Daddy set to work.

 Ethan chose Star Wars R2D2 which was an extremely intricate design so Mommy started on Caden's pumpkin silly monster face(which was much easier, by the way). The boys' quickly lost interest and decided the iPad was much more interesting :-)

 After a while, Ben had had enough of the tedious little poking and cutting, so he decided to pull out the jigsaw.Yep, that's right, he sure did. I wasn't too thrilled at this idea because I could envision pumpkin splattered all over the kitchen and breakfast area. And while it was fun to watch and he enjoyed the much quicker way of carving a pumpkin, after a few slices into the pumpkin he ultimately decided to return to the more traditional method of pumpkin carving. And I must say when it was complete, it was quite a masterpiece...too bad pumpkins have a short-lived life span after they're cut.

Halloween

Finally, the day came and Mimi was able to come into town to go trick-or-treating with us for the very first time! Spiderman and race car driver Lightning McQueen were quick to show her the ropes.

 

Once the boys got tired or walking we returned home and spent the rest of the evening passing out candy to trick-or-treaters that came to our house. This is one of Ethan's favorite parts of Halloween :-)