Pumpkins!

Here are the pumpkins we got this year. We started out with just 4, then added two more and ended up with a total of 6 pumpkins and 1 gourd. We had a cute little arrangement on our front porch. Oliver and Thomas have been practicing counting the pumpkins each time we go in and out of the house. Fall it is a great time of year and pumpkins make it extra fun! We even have bed time books we read about pumpkins. Our favorite is, "Too Many Pumpkins." We know practically the whole book from front to back and we can quote lines out of it we read it so much!

Pumpkin Painting

This year the boys had a play date with some of their friends to paint pumpkins. It was nice out so they had a little picnic lunch and finger painted their pumpkins outside. Look how cute they were!

Happy Halloween!

The boys and I giggled so hard while we were making this. We decided Grandma Patty made a good mad scientist. :-)

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My Birthday Weekend Task

Well this weekend I was tasked with creating an R2D2 stroller costume. Here are some photos of my best try so I hope you all enjoy this. Ill also post them on facebook for others to see and/or comment on.

Chalk Time: Featuring Oliver & Thomas

The boys love to spend afternoons or mornings coloring with chalk out in the driveway. This is an almost daily event for our household and we do this so often that we go through buckets and buckets of chalk each year. Right now because there has been no rain in quite some time our drive looks like someone has used it as their graffiti art head quarters. There are so many things covering our driveway that today we literally had to color new pictures on top of old ones! The boys don't seem to mind the plethora of rainbow colored Crayola chalk everywhere. To be honest I don't mind it too bad either. Not sure how the neighbors feel but I think it adds a nice friendly vibe to the neighborhood!

Art Exhibit #1: Thomas and "Oliver" the Train

Art Exhibit #2: Rainbows

Art Exhibit #3: The creature in your nightmare

Exhibit #4: Heavenly Gardens and Critters

Exhibit #5: Halloween Spectacular!

Exhibit #6: Pumpkins of the Chalk

Exhibit #7: Helicopter-Spacecraft-Machine-Thing (appropriately named by the artist named Thomas)

TOO MANY PUMPKINS!

Life's a bowl of....apples?

September was a very fun filled month for our house. It wouldn't be a good September without a few trips to the apple orchard--it's a tradition! This year we made 4 trips to the apple orchard in total and I am sure we will squeeze in a couple last chance trips this October too. We go to Wilson's Apple Orchard north of Iowa City. They have tractor rides on the weekend, a picnic area, apple treats to taste and of course an impressive collection of apple trees covering the entire apple orchard. We love to go as a family and literally just get lost out in the orchard and the boys love being able to taste all the yummy apples and treats.

So many apples later...here are some pictures from our most recent family trip. On this trip we got to show off the orchard to Kim, Reid and Jessie since they came for a special visit that weekend.

Little apple farmer, Oliver is excited to go pick some apples!

Waiting for the tractor

Smile--TAKE ONE

SMILE--TAKE TWO, only one kid is smiling! Gotta do it again!

I said smiiiiiile--TAKE THREE, okay I give up!

Family Portrait-- Christmas card photo perhaps?

Tractor Ride!

What's that mom? You want an apple? Let me see here, I just have one apple left in my basket and I took a bite out of it. Sorry I ate the rest!

Brent and Thomas

Oooooh!!! Apples!

Come on Oliver, there are more apples this way! Hurry, we have to get the good ones!

Oliver and Thomas

This one tastes just right!

Taking a big bite!

Yum!

And for my last magic trick...I will make this apple disappear in 3...2...1!