Trick or Treat - Take 1

We went with our MOMS Club friends to a local senior community to go trick or treating a day early :) We bring the goodies for them to give our kids and leave them extras since they will be having an open house for kids tomorrow (actual Halloween Day). Anyway, it was pretty fun and the kids had a good time. Plus it gave me time to let Jason practice saying "Trick or Treat" and "Happy Halloween" (and "Thank You" of course, but he is already a pro at that!).

Saying "Yeeeee Haaaw!"

collectin candy is tiring work for a cowboy and his horse

Enjoying some loot when we got home

Fall Makes My Heart Sing!!!

I know I keep posting pictures of Fall leaves, etc, but it is just so darn stunning right now!! It seriously takes my breath away.

Not that you can see any pretty leaves in this picture though, ha ha ha (no, we didn't wake up in San Francisco either)

But once that cleared up, I was able to see the gorgeous Fall leaves all around us!

Jason and I went on our walk when Makenna was at school yesterday. He was tired, and kept trying to give me dirty looks. His new dirty look is the furrowed brow, with his piercing eyes beaming little rays of death at me. Or he tries to roll his eyes, thinking that if he can't see me, I'm not really talking to him *snicker*.

mean muggin' with his furrowed brow...

What. EVER. Mom

he's trying to give me his furrowed brow look here, but my silly faces are making him break his meanie concentration

SCORE! I got him to smile!

and like I said... he was tired. This was about 2 minutes later


After we picked up Jerome, we headed to Salmon Creek Park again. The plan was to go for a walk, but we got sidetracked with the playground by the pond ;) And now it's getting dark so quickly - booooo.

I only got a couple shots before my camera died

Ok. Now I love California. I've lived there 3 separate times, and have nothing but love for it. Same goes for Maryland. I have lived there twice and think it's beautiful. But seriously? How can they compete with this??


Now I hope your heart is singing too :)

Last but not least... today

Here's a typical Monday for us :)

Went to the playground behind the house

hahaha


then to Lewisville for a walk after Jerome got home. We've been really lucky with such great weather, we are trying to go out and enjoy the Fall leaves as much as possible!

getting ready to jump in the pile of leaves we made

so puuuurrrrty

Misc info from the past week

Ooops - I should have done this first tonight, but was too excited about the kitty so I skipped over the past few days :)



Let's see - the day after the walk at Salmon Creek I posted about, we went for a walk on the Columbia River. For those out of towners, this is the big river that separates Washington and Oregon. It's about 5 minutes South of Jerome's work, so an easy jaunt after we pick him up from work.

But before all that, we went to playgroup to play with our friends, and on the way back we drove the backroads which are always so much prettier.
A barn on the way


and one of the blueberry farms we go to in the Summer - I love love love how they get all red in the winter! I think we need to start a blueberry farm.


Jason loves his birthday present!




and later that evening, at the river

3rd Annual Pumpkin Party

Woo Hoo! We had our annual pumpkin carving contest and it was great :)

I wish more people had showed up so we'd have had more pumpkin entries, but it was a gorgeous and perfect Fall day so it was just nice being outside and watching the kids play. We need our family closer so they can come to these things too :(

Lots of pictures from the party so go to the bathroom now, and get your drink and snack. All settled? Good, here we go:

The party site:

Pumpkin Paaaarty!


Jerome up to his elbows in pumpkin guts


Jason's pumpkin (for some reason I don't have one of Makenna's with her alone - I have some great ones of all the kids and their pumpkins, but I'm trying not to post pictures of other people's kids on here ;) )


I found a way around it - cut all their heads off! This is about half of the kids' entries

The kids made a huge pile of leaves and were playing them - and they had so much fun! I'm trying to find some with only my kids in them, and it's hard to get any that show the looks of pure glee on their faces, so just take my word for it





Jason doing his tribal yell in excitement. I was totally expecting him to start pounding his chest


Makenna doing her answering tribal yell














Jerome's bloodshot eyeball pumpkin

my goofy dude pumpkin

and my other goofy dude... oops, I mean, my other pumpkin

We had a great time and hope our guests did as well :) We look forward to seeing everyone next year.