cleaning out pumpkins

 We had to do our pumpkins in stages this year. We cleaned them out Monday. And carved them later on in the week, it's just always been too long of a process for us to do everything in one night. 

So here are some pictures of the cleaning.

pumpkin patch

Making our annual trip to pick out our pumpkins. I love watching the boys wander around looking for the perfect one.

 

 

This was the best I could get of Brock cause once he realized it was getting him a little dirty he wanted nothing to do with touching pumpkins.

 

Silly boys asking me to take their picture even though they could barely reach.

The even sillier boys who can reach

Love this set of 3 pictures of Brock trying to catch up

end of october recap (and picture overload)

 I had a crazy (and pretty lazy - although I'm pregnant so I can be :) last couple weeks so I'm cramming a few things into one big long post.

We went to a new pumpkin patch this year. They had a straw maze for the kids that our boys loved. And then we went out to pick pumpkins.

Trey wanted nothing to do with the pumpkins. Every time I tried to get him to hold one, he'd push it away in disgust. 

The boys love finding their perfect pumpkin

 They had fun wagon things to load the pumpkins up in that the boys loved pulling (or attempting to pull for Cole and Peyt) and especially riding in it with the pumpkins.

Seth pulling all 4 boys and all 6 pumpkins

Carving Pumpkins
Easton is making that very unattractive face to show his strong dislike of having to clean out the pumpkins. It took us way too long to force convince him to do it. He started out washing off his hand after each time he stuck it inside the pumpkin. Eventually he did clean it out on his own and hopefully next year he'll remember that it's not going to kill him.

We had cake for my 30th birthday the same night we carved the pumpkins. And Seth really put on 30 candles. So sweet of him, right? Luckily, it was a piece of cake :) to blow them out with all my helpers.

Peyton was Dash for Halloween. Here he is showing off some of his moves.

Trey before going out trick-or-treating

Trey right when we got home from trick-or-treating

Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures of the other two before we went out. Not being smart enough to realize that since it was cold and rainy, they'd rip off their wet costumes as soon as we got in the door. In my defense, I always take pictures of them after we've gone trick-or-treating, showing off all their candy while still in their costumes. Oh well, Cole was Darth Vadar and Easton was Batman, both of which were a couple sizes too big, so I'm sure they'll be them again in a couple years. :)

Wordless Wednesday - Halloween

These 3 pictures show just how difficult it is get a good one of all 4 boys at the same time. Or maybe it's just me needing to get better photography skills.

Easton and Trey look good (I think this was the last one we took and Cole said Trey was getting too heavy)
Easton and Cole look decent
Hmm... maybe Peyton looks alright
Puppy (What all 4 boys have been their first Halloween :)
Superman
Anakin
Obi-Wan
I realized the sun and lighting was bad as I was taking the picture, but didn't want to go thru the hassle of moving the boys.

Halloween Treats

Instead of doing a bunch of little posts about different Halloween things we've done, I thought I'd just make one long post with some of the things we've had fun with this week.

Making, decorating and eating sugar cookies





Crazy Halloween dinner idea that I got from my amazing friend Christie.


Making spider cookies. Peyton was not interested in making it at all, just eating anything I put on his plate.


Making Jack-o-Lantern mini pizzas for dinner, with a friend