October In Review.

I love the colors of Fall. I don't like the temperature, but I do love the colors! I love the pumpkin patch in Paul. I love it because you can go and pick out your pumpkins and just hang out. There are no thrills to the pumpkin patch. Just pumpkins. Every kind that you could ever imagine. It is fun to watch my kids pick their own pumpkins out. Such different styles.

Ellie really takes her time and thinks out how she will spend her allotted amount of money. It is usually on lots of little and unique pumpkins and squash.
Emma looked all over the patch and finally decided on a perfect sized pumpkin that she saw at the very start of her pumpkin browsing.

Tate, well the bigger the better for Tate. Not much thought is put into it. Just size requirements. This wasn't his pumpkin. It was Mom's and he was determined to carry the thing all the way back to the car for her.

Bad lighting at the pumpkin patch - can't pass up a good photo op though.

After we got our pumpkins, along came the Mountain View Halloween Parade...

HOTDOG!

That is all I can say about it. Tate has this weird obsession with hot dogs. He likes to eat them, yes, but he also likes to talk about them and write sentences at school about them. Weird - I know, but when I found this costume at Target there was no other option for Tate this year.

Camera shy - Not my kids!

Then we move to Miss Dawn's Preschool Halloween walk...

Giddy-up Cowgirl!

One of the Dad's drove the fire engine over to watch his son walk and it ended up being the main attraction.


Halloween itself was a great day. Kalli came to town and threw a party for all the kids at Tom and Kathy's. She did a great job.

They played some charades...

My cute little Indian Girl.

Then a few relays. Followed by a pie eating contest...

She looked fierce but we all know that she wasn't much competition...

She looked at it a long time before actually eating it - pure Ellie style.

Tate wasn't feeling well and opted out of the pie eating contest. Emma decided not to do it either because she didn't think that she would like the pie. So they were the cheering section. There is Tate cheering Cole on and Emma overseeing the whole event.

Here they are - my Hot dog, Indian, and Cowgirl.

We ended the night at Mom and Dad's neighborhood for some trick or treating and some good soup from Mom. I love her homemade soup at the end of the night. It is one of my favorite traditions. We hung with the Laumb family for the night, and as always they are a good time. We missed the Kidd family and Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Jim, our usual gang. They had a football game in the mini dome. We hope they join us next year. I don't love Halloween. I never loved it as a kid either, but I love that we got to spend it this year with so much family.