The pumpkin patch- not

Pumpkin patch? Okay, well, it's more than what we saw in Asia.

Our adventure to a pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin wasn't all that I had hoped or remembered. I guess we went to the wrong one. It was mostly a farm store that has rows of pumpkins for customers to choose and buy. They only do hay rides on Sunday and this is the only way to get out to the real pumpkin patch. I guess we could have gone someplace else, but time was running out and we really just needed to buy them so we could use them to decorate our front porch and eat the seeds!

A couple days before Halloween we carved two of the pumpkins. Owen and Noah really enjoyed this but Payton and Gray disliked the smell so they chose not to carve theirs. We may still carve theirs but use a drill to poke wholes into it to make a fun pattern.

Hope you all had a fun, safe Halloween. We did.

The Saturday before, we went to a neighborhood party and a trunk-or-treat at the church. Gray was a scarey, skeleton faced monster, Owen was a muscle man, Noah was Skeletor and Payton was Batman. (Our neighbor Sarah is tinkerbell. She is the same age as Noah eventhough she is about the same height as Owen. Owen looks funny here, like he is going to sneeze from Sarah's fake flowers.)

above at the neighbors -Tiffany, Steve and Anna's party

The is the night of Halloween. Michael is Jango-fat, Payton is Spiderman, Anna is Ariel, Owen is a painted face goul, Aiden is the red Power Ranger, Noah is the muscleman pirate, Sarah is tinkerbell. Gray couldn't find his skeleton mask from the other night so he ran home and changed into his Raven's jersey and shorts. He was a very, cold Raven's fan. He had the older children literally running from house to house collecting candy. He met up with another friend, Tyler, and had a great time. They all had a great time!

I was at home, sick with a cold and ready to pass out candy but no one came! Well, not no one. However, for the whole night we had two groups of 8 and then later one little girl on her own with her dad. I was over prepared. So, for a while, I left the big bowl of candy on the driveway with a note ("take a handful") and I joined the boys. It was good I did. They were all enthusiastic about this major event- their first door to door trick or treating night!