Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Halloween Fun 2011

This year for Halloween we went trick or treating with Tommy and Sammy.  The boys went pheasant hunting in the morning.  In September Devo and Troy joined Paul's hunting club.  We've enjoyed seeing Terri and Troy a little more often.


 Jill always throws the greatest parties.  She had swamp juice, Frankenstein brains, and a scary snake calzone for the kids.  Sam was the cutest "Blue" from Rio you ever saw.  Tommy was a lego head. Jill loves making their costumes. Paul had the greatest set up for trick or treating with a lighted trailer hooked up to 4 wheeler with music and all.  Aunt Terri and Uncle Toe (The empty nesters) stayed home to hand out candy.  Sam started with them first.  Jake loved trick or treating running from house to house with his pillow case. Sometimes he hit the house twice waiting for the other kids to catch up.


 Carving pumpkins was fun.  Emily pick a complicated pattern but did actually quite well with just a little help from Dad.  Jake wanted to do it himself. After he got started I stopped worrying he would cut off his fingers.  Devo had fun doing some etchings on Jake's dinosaur after he was done.



The school has a parade every year and Aunt Terri help Emmy get ready.  She loved wearing Aunt Terri's big hoop earrings and makeup!  Always fun to have Aunt Terri around to share in the fun.

Monday, November 7, 2011

The Red Barn


We didn't miss our annual pumpkin patch trip!  Love the hay ride, picking out LARGE pumpkins, ice cream, donuts, and carmel apples.


Fall Snow

The first week of October we saw our first snow.  It snowed all morning.  Emmy wanted to go out back and build a snowman after school.  I was sure that it was too wet to stick together but a few minutes later she had rolled her first big ball of snow.  So dad went out and helped her finish.  Jake had just had his tonsils out but didn't want to be left out.  Meet "Steve" as Emily called her snow man.  So glad it didn't stay cold for long.