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.