October Fun!

As soon as October rolls around I get excited about all of the festivities that come along with the fall season!  We started with a trip to the pumpkin patch one evening.  We’re lucky enough to have one within miles from our house, so we went during the week and were the only people there! 

We fed the goats and picked out pumpkins then headed home.  I had Bible study that night but was so surprised to come home to this on our porch:

The kids were so proud of the “Bat Cat” Daddy made for them!  Our pumpkin was carved and we were READY for Halloween. 

 

 

Good thing because we had LOTS of activities leading up to it.  Friday we went to a Halloween carnival at Ryder’s school.

Saturday we went to a Harvest Festival at our Church!

     

After that we went to another Harvest Party at Penny & Joe’s house!  Then Sunday evening the kids got dressed up again to wear their costumes to Awana.

      

Halloween wasn’t until Thursday so they spent their days wearing crazy masks leading up to the big trick-or-treat day!

And finally Thursday came.  Daddy got bails of hay and loaded up the trailer, decorated it with halloween lights, and hooked it up to his truck to drive us around our neighborhood!  Terry & Peyton came down with Aunt Dee & Michael, plus we had Cameron with us and then several friends from the neighborhood jumped on our awesome trick-or-treat hay ride!  The kids got lots of candy and had a blast!

   

 

So fun! Each time someone asked Ryder what he wanted to be this year he would add to it, first it was a Ninja Turtle, then a Ninja Turtle Cowboy, then a Vampire Ninja Turtle Cowboy, I had to cut him off and tell him NO MORE IDEAS!  We’ll see how much he can build up in his head for next years costume, so far it’s a King & a Wizard!