Pie Night

Yesterday was the Black (my mom's side) family annual pie night. We were talking last night about how many years we've been getting together to do this, and we decided we're on year 11. It's been awhile and the competition is pretty intense. Pie night originated when everyone's families started getting bigger and people wanted to have Thanksgiving dinner with their immediate families. So the Monday night before Thanksgiving, whoever is in town brings a pie, the kids listen to a thanksgiving story, we cast our votes for the best pies, prizes are received and everyone has a great time. It really is the one time a year I see some of my cousins.

It was complete chaos but a lot of fun.

Yesterday

During breakfast the boys were being so funny and Grant was making Davis do his belly laugh, which is seriously hilarious. I need to get it on video. I did snap some pictures though.

During Davis' nap Grant was playing the snake game while I cleaned. I came into the living room and this is what I found. He had made a dad and mom snake and 4 baby snakes, which were ALL brothers. No sisters. ha.

My friend Lucy came over for a visit with her kids in the afternoon, and for a snack I made them a smoothie. When it was time to leave I helped her carry some stuff to her car and was seriously out of the house for maybe 2.5 minutes. This is what I found when I came back in...Davis dipping his pacifier into Grant's leftover smoothie which he had somehow grabbed off the table. That little stinker.

And these are from the other day. Grant is obessesd with taking pictures and looking at himself. He loves taking silly pictures! So this is what we do while Davis is napping. 

October wrap up

My favorite month of the year...it's usually great weather, the leaves are all in color, it's my birth month, the new school year schedules are finally running smoothly, and it's Halloween, which I LOVE! We had a great October. There are five billion pictures in this post, but it's my only documentation of our lives, so here you go. 

I'm 32! What in the? I still feel like I graduated high school like 6 yrs ago, but it's been 13?? I'm sure my young women think I'm totally old. We started out the day great with an early morning Daylight Doughnut run (which Adam and the boys did while I was still in bed). Awesome photo of me I know. Grant was so excited about the whole thing, I love that kid.

 

Grant had a preschool field trip to the pumpkin patch that we made a family affair. He really wanted me to go, so I called Adam and told him since it was my birthday he had to meet us there:) We were going to try and go the next morning, but since I was going with Grant already I thought it would be perfect to just get our family pumpkin patch outing in during the field trip.

They went on a walk through the corn maze and learned about different kinds of corn. Grant thought it was so awesome that we were walking through the corn plants.

Davis had  great time too.

They had a little farm there that the kids loved.

Birthday pie at Adam's parents house.

It was kind of cold so Vanessa found this giant jacket for Grant who put his brother in it to keep him warm too. Don't know how much Davis liked it.

We carved pumpkins at Grandma's too.

The finished products.

Grandpa was cracking the boys up in these photos.

We went to dinner with my family for my birthday as well. Eric showed up as Mr. T? Really? It's Eric I promise.

Halloween morning Adam made jack o 'lantern pancakes while I was still in bed...love that man.

Grant had a Halloween party at school and wore his costume. I love Mrs. Redd's clown costume. Her nose even honked. All the kids got a chance to squeeze her nose. I really like her.

Keri invited everyone over for Halloween dinner and trick or treating with the cousins. 

 

My contribution...dinner in a pumpkin. In high school, my friend Becca's mom would make dinner in a pumpkin every Halloween. We loved that tradition, and I've been wanting to try it.  My filling was a little different, kind of like a stuffed pepper - ground turkey, brown rice, spaghetti sauce, tomatoes, some parmesan and cabbage. I know it sounds a little weird but it actually ended up being super delish. The pumpkin gets soft and you kind of scoop a bit of it out with the rest of the dinner. Yum.

Grandma Lucy was the cat witch. I thought her costume was pretty good.

Hank as a rooster and Davis as a turtle.

Grant had a blast trick or treating with the big kids. They were literally running from house to house. So fun.

Pierce and Davis assessing their loot.