Happy October 31st!

From our house to yours, we hope that you have a fun and safe Halloween!

 

 

We will be spending it with these little pumpkins♥.

creating: painting pumpkins

Enjoying some paint time while the Little Miss naps.  In honor of the season, we painted pumpkins!

 Then he had fun  mixing all the colors:

 "Mom!  Look at all the color swirls!!!"

The very proud artist:

weekend recap part two: our neighbor's annual costume party

Saturday night, after spending the day at our favorite pumpkin patch, we headed home to attend our neighbor's annual costume/halloween party.  We decided to be soap and a loofa:

I made it myself.  I was SO excited how it came out!  (It's a tube dress pinned with 20 yards of fabric and I wore a strapless tank top and leggings under it.)

Pretty much our entire neighborhood comes, as well as their family and other friends, who we have gotten to know over the last few years. We have so much fun eating yummy food from the Taco man and dancing to great music.  

The girls start decorating their house in August... They go all out!  

They were the characters from the Nightmare Before Christmas.

We had so much fun and can't wait for next year!

Great party, Lisa and Maria!  We love you guys!

weekend recap part one: pumpkin patch with our Mia and Papa

On Saturday, we headed to out to Redlands for a little family time and to visit our favorite pumpkin patch.  (It's the one we took Kit to the weekend he met my family, back in October of 1998...♥)

It's a really special place for us and it has become a really fun tradition with our kiddos!

Here were some of the highlights:
Looking at the all the pumpkins!

 A pony ride for Ryder:

while we all watched: 

Sawing a log with a group of forest rangers: 

And of course getting lots of pictures: 

She was NOT about to put her kettle corn down:

 The girls:

 And ending our time at the petting zoo and feeding the animals:

We love every chance that we get to be together and we love that we live close enough to have these special moments on a regular basis.

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After that, we headed home to go to our neighbor's annual halloween party.  Can't wait to show you pictures tomorrow!

Pumpkin patch

Yesterday we went to Tanaka Farms and enjoyed some family time walking through the pumpkin patch and corn maze, and just had fun being together!

It was a great day!

pumpkins and leaves...

Once I start decorating for the fall holidays, I just can't stop.  We have been adding small touches of pumpkins and leaves, little by little and it has made the house seem so much more festive.

We changed the centerpiece from summer to fall:

We bought a small bag of pumpkins at Trader Joe's and the kids had fun putting them with our big pumpkins on the front porch.

and on our front bench:

I also picked up these metal pumpkins from Etsy and the place I like them best was our bedroom.

In the spirit of pumpkins, we also have stocked up on one of our family favorites: Trader Joe's Pumpkin pancake mix.

They don't even need syrup...

Little miss loves them!

My goodness, I love this time of year!