Fall Fun

There are always so many fun things to do in October! First up was Stephanie and Adam's pumpkin party. They always do a great job with a hayride, games, crafts and best of all a huge leaf pile!  I was shocked they had leaves this year.  Most of the trees were still green and full when this party happened a little over a week ago.  Adam somehow made it happen :)

 

 

Katie and Josh's cute boys, Zander and Vinny!

Next up, pumpkin painting!  We had fun getting our pumpkins all ready for the upcoming pumpkin festival.  Grady made a train of pumpkins and Layla decided on a pumpkin carriage similar to last year.  She wanted to make some slight adjustments to the design :)

 

Grady sat and painted all of his pumpkins.  He actually stayed with the whole project, beginning to end.  What a difference from a year ago.  The giant leaps from year to year always amaze me.  And makes me a bit sad.  Last year he was still a baby.  This year...he is all two year old :)

 

Layla is helping Ryan draw out the design here.  She knew exactly what she wanted.

 

Grady added some beans to his coal car pumpkin

My hard workers!  Layla was working on a train track of Popsicle sticks for Grady's pumpkin train and Grady was getting the train wheels ready to hammer into the pumpkin.

And the hammering begins with Pat from Handy Manny!

 

And Layla worked hard on her painting.  It was wet for quite some time :)  

I will snap a photo of the finished products before we take them downtown for the contest!

And lastly, I have one picture from our carving night with our friends, Lincoln, Ryker and Mason (and their parents!).  The kids give their input on the carving design and scoop out a few seeds and then off they run to go play while the dads get busy carving.  Grady and Mason accidentally switched pumpkins in this picture :) 

We hope you are having a fun fall!