Jared finished our dining room floor. It is SO nice not to eating over carpet anymore!
This month Jared has been working on our kitchen. It took a lot of scraping and hard work to get the linoleum up, and now he is busy tiling. As you can see we've had an interesting time with moving our fridge, washer/dryer, stove and dishwasher around.
We took a family trip to Country Mercantile which had lots of fun harvest day activities. The girls enjoyed climbing the haystack pyramid and crawling through all the tunnels.
They also loved the kid-size haystack maze.
We managed to get lost in the corn maze. Here are the girls cheering that we finally made it out. Yeah!
The girls taking their first roller coaster ride. You can see them in the last car hanging on for dear life.
The bouncy house--Nathan loved the frog on it.
Some nice person gave us their extra tickets as they were leaving, so the girls were able to take an airplane ride too.
After all the rides we took a hayride out to the pumpkin patch where the kids picked out their favorite pumpkins. Abby liked the one with warts.
Maddy picked out this cute little white one. She called it her baby pumpkin (she has a baby obsession right now).
We asked Nathan to pick his favorite pumpkin so he went and sat on the biggest one he could find. We picked one slightly smaller since we had to pay per pound for the pumpkins. Jared picked up a pumpkin and guessed that it was 25 pounds only to find out when we brought it in that it was actually 41 pounds.
Our little pumpkins riding back to the van.
On the 21st we were excited to have Craig and Jessica come up for a weekend trip to go to the temple since the Boise temple is now closed. We enjoyed spending time together and playing games. The kids had fun decorating pumpkin sugar cookies with their cousin Courtney, and they were fascinated with their cute cousin Kayla.
Nathan's first time decorating cookies with us. He wasn't worried about making cute faces; he felt it was more important to have candy cover every last bit of frosting available.
Abby had a Harvest day party at school and came off the bus wearing this spider hat. She ran to us and tried scaring us all.
Our ward had a chili cook off, costume parade, and a trunk or treat. It was fun to see so many people in the ward dressed up, and the kids loved all the candy.
Jared spend the night before Halloween doing some pumpkin carving while the kids drew pumpkin faces and played with Halloween stickers.
This year Jared tried a new pumpkin carving technique where you don't scoop out the middle, you just carve the face into the skin of the pumpkin with clay pottery tools. Jared turned a giant zucchini from our garden into Frankenstein and made Maddy's white pumpkin into a happy face.
Abby wanted a traditional jack 0'lantern with a cat, so Jared carved her this.
Here are the kids all ready to trick-or-treat.
Abby was Ariel and couldn't stop dancing around singing "Aaaaahha aaahhaaa . . . "
Maddy insisted on being a baby this year so we put her in footed PJs and gave her a binky and a bottle. The funny thing is that she was my only child who as a baby would never take a binky or a bottle. She enjoyed crawling around and saying "wah wah." She insisted she couldn't walk for trick-or-treating since she was a baby, so she ended up riding around with Nathan in the wagon.
Nathan growling like a bear.
Jared finished our dining room floor. It is SO nice not to eating over carpet anymore!
This month Jared has been working on our kitchen. It took a lot of scraping and hard work to get the linoleum up, and now he is busy tiling. As you can see we've had an interesting time with moving our fridge, washer/dryer, stove and dishwasher around.
We took a family trip to Country Mercantile which had lots of fun harvest day activities. The girls enjoyed climbing the haystack pyramid and crawling through all the tunnels.
They also loved the kid-size haystack maze.
We managed to get lost in the corn maze. Here are the girls cheering that we finally made it out. Yeah!
The girls taking their first roller coaster ride. You can see them in the last car hanging on for dear life.
The bouncy house--Nathan loved the frog on it.
Some nice person gave us their extra tickets as they were leaving, so the girls were able to take an airplane ride too.
After all the rides we took a hayride out to the pumpkin patch where the kids picked out their favorite pumpkins. Abby liked the one with warts.
Maddy picked out this cute little white one. She called it her baby pumpkin (she has a baby obsession right now).
We asked Nathan to pick his favorite pumpkin so he went and sat on the biggest one he could find. We picked one slightly smaller since we had to pay per pound for the pumpkins. Jared picked up a pumpkin and guessed that it was 25 pounds only to find out when we brought it in that it was actually 41 pounds.
Our little pumpkins riding back to the van.
On the 21st we were excited to have Craig and Jessica come up for a weekend trip to go to the temple since the Boise temple is now closed. We enjoyed spending time together and playing games. The kids had fun decorating pumpkin sugar cookies with their cousin Courtney, and they were fascinated with their cute cousin Kayla.
Nathan's first time decorating cookies with us. He wasn't worried about making cute faces; he felt it was more important to have candy cover every last bit of frosting available.
Abby had a Harvest day party at school and came off the bus wearing this spider hat. She ran to us and tried scaring us all.
Our ward had a chili cook off, costume parade, and a trunk or treat. It was fun to see so many people in the ward dressed up, and the kids loved all the candy.
Jared spend the night before Halloween doing some pumpkin carving while the kids drew pumpkin faces and played with Halloween stickers.
This year Jared tried a new pumpkin carving technique where you don't scoop out the middle, you just carve the face into the skin of the pumpkin with clay pottery tools. Jared turned a giant zucchini from our garden into Frankenstein and made Maddy's white pumpkin into a happy face.
Abby wanted a traditional jack 0'lantern with a cat, so Jared carved her this.
Here are the kids all ready to trick-or-treat.
Abby was Ariel and couldn't stop dancing around singing "Aaaaahha aaahhaaa . . . "
Maddy insisted on being a baby this year so we put her in footed PJs and gave her a binky and a bottle. The funny thing is that she was my only child who as a baby would never take a binky or a bottle. She enjoyed crawling around and saying "wah wah." She insisted she couldn't walk for trick-or-treating since she was a baby, so she ended up riding around with Nathan in the wagon.
Nathan growling like a bear. 
4 comments:
Amazing pumpkins and adorable kiddos!
good job on the floor and jack-o-laterns Jared. Adorable kids!
Congrats again! I loved how the pumpkins turned out. It was so fun to see you guys.
The floor looks amazing, you have a beautiful home, I like how you set the tile diagonal, it looks very elegant. The pumpkins are top notch, the costumes so cute I love the Country Mercantile activities, it reminds me of the Pumpkin Land family activities we did over fall break very similar.
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