Happy Halloween

This was a very fun Halloween for us! Kaleb loves Thomas the Train, so I thought I was a genius and ordered him a Thomas costume. When it came in the mail I was so excited to show it to him...his response "I don't want to be Thomas, I want to be Spiderman". So, Spiderman he was! Kendall wanted to be Strawberry Shortcake so my mom made her an awesome costume, complete with a prop cupcake! We went trick-or-treating, then up to a Halloween program at the school.

Carving pumpkins

Kendall and Kaleb liked scooping the "guts" out of the pumpkins!



We carved a choo-choo train for Kaleb and a bunny rabit for Kendall! They turned out great!

Decorating for halloween and first snow!

We had a lot of fun picking out pumpkins, corn stalks and scarecrows for Halloween this year!

On Oct 12th we got our first snow of the year! Surprisingly, they remembered what snow was! Thankfully it all melted right away! I don't think we could handle snow on the ground permanently yet!

Making salsa and cookies

We had four tomato plants in planters on our deck this summer. Due to the colder weather they didn't ripen on the plant, so we had to put them in between newspaper in the basement and wait for them to ripen. A bunch of them turned at the same time, so I decided to make salsa with the kids. They really liked dumping ingredients in and stirring.


With the cooler evenings, we have been spending more time in the kitchen and one night made cookies! Yummy!