Sunday, October 26, 2008

Octoberfest!

October is a very busy month for us. Between all of the birthdays, anniversary, fall things to do, and halloween - we are more than busy having fun. My mom likes to get all of the grandkids together - sometimes at different times - but more than often together to do a bunch of fun things. This year, we had to split it up a bit, but we had a couple of fun full days of activities for the kids.

The first thing we did was take the kids to the pumpkin patch. Nothing beats watching the kids run through the pumpkin fields looking for that perfect pumpkin!


























And of course, we had to take some pictures with the scarecrows and the cutouts.












And what trip to the pumpkin patch would be complete without a couple of runs through the little corn maze?















Having way too much fun!



After we decided we'd had enough fun at the pumpkin patch, we headed back to Nana and Papa's for some fun decorating! We:

1. Decorated cookies,




2. Decorated gourds,




3. And then painted our pumpkins - of course blue for Zach's and pink for Haileys!


























And if that wasn't enough fun for one day, we had a birthday party for our cousin Ashton and then we got in our costumes and trick-or-treated! Nana and Papa always like to see the kids in their costumes, so we get all dressed up and then trick-or-treat members of the family in the different rooms of their house. The kids have so much fun!

Our firefighter and beautiful princess!






Trick-or-treating!
















What a fun day we had!

6 comments:

Carrie said...

How fun! Those are great traditions for your kids to always remember. I'm totally biased, but I LOVE the firefighter outfit! That's my kind of costume!

Kylie said...

Yes, indeed it was fun! You got some WAY cute pictures.... I'm sad I missed the pumpkin patch, it sure looks like you guys had a fun time!

Thelissa said...

I love the decorated gourds! Those were so cute! What a fun idea. I keep watching for new ideas and I think I will adopt that one!

Parker Family said...

I am so glad you got these posted, I kinda feel like I have slacked and haved blogged about anything fun, too busy! Hopefully only one more month of craziness and then life will slow down a little! Very cute pics, thanks for sending me the other pictures too! Loved them all!

Anonymous said...

Fun! Your kids costumes are too cute!

Kelsie said...

How fun ... I love the decorated gourds. And I bet the kids have so much fun trick-or-treating at every room in the house! :) Cute ideas.