Fall is here

Fall is here and so are our fun fall activities. We all love this time of year and everything that goes with it... smells, colors, family gathering and just enjoying ourselves. A couple weekends ago we went to the Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival or as Gavin called it "Punkin Fest". Gavin got to ride a horse, go in a bounce house, try pumpkin fudge for the first time (YUM) and pick out a few small pumpkins for himself. We will be going to pick out our family pumpkin this weekend since we usually carve two pumpkins and just love visiting the pumpkin patch. This past weekend we had a few friends and their kiddos out to carve and decorate pumpkins, the day turned out wonderful and it's so nice that our friends and their kids can all come together and have a great day. All the kids ended up painting pumpkins and Braden, Kim (for Katie), Jason for his kids and myself carved a pumpkin. We also made chili and cookies for everyone to enjoy as they pleased. Josh's grandma was so kind to give us some pumpkins from her patch and we thank her for that. I definitely think this will have to be an annual gathering at our house since it turned out so great and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. We truly have some creative and wonderful kids. I didn't even think, until Sunday morning, about taking a group picture of the kids and their pumpkins but I did get individual pictures so I'll post them below. Warning... lots of pictures!!!

getting ready to ride a horse... he did NOT want to keep the helmet on but loved riding the horse so quickly forgot about it.


riding the horse... you can't see in this picture but he was smiling from ear to ear most the ride

oh yea, we had to bribe him to get him out... ha
working hard... missing a few people in this picture

These are the last few pumpkins at the end of the day. Gavin's is the one all the way to the right... blue of course

Gavin being creative...

Lyla being creative...

I asked Braden if he was making a spider and he said "no, I'm just doing stuff". Love is imagination.

Katie be creative...

Calli being creative...

finished product...

the pumpkin I started and Jim finished carving... team work!!!