Super Hero Friends! 

Now THAT'S sharing a kiss! 

Sometimes "BIG" things mean alot too :) 

Good Morning! 

Who's scarier? 

Glowing success 

Everyone at work 

Work in progress 

An artist at work 

Waiting patiently together 

Sliding 

Slithering.. 

Free (almost) wheelin' 

Feed me too! 

Feeding a pig 

Measuring up to an elephant 

Crammed in the corn maze 

Cat & the Hat + 2 

The return hayride 

My BIG pumpkin 

My little pumpkin 

One choice pumpkin! 

Here we are! 

FALLing Behind

Time just flies for us this time of year. It's been a very busy month with school, celebrations, various activities and change of weather that always brings in the cold season to go with all of that. Just this past weekend, we made a trip to the pumpkin patch to start into some fall festivities. Eric picked out a whopping 22 lb. pumpkin. I think he thought this would provide us with an endless supply of pumpkin pie, but instead it became a jack-o-lantern immediately that evening. "Aunt" Kathleen came over and with Eric's design, it was carved into a large, scary face. Jesse colored one of our home grown pumpkins while Daddy made a little, toothy happy face pumpkin. Eric wanted the big jack-o-lantern to eat the little one, but that didn't quite happen (not yet, anyway).

So, along with this brief note are some pictures from our own personalized harvest festival. Now I think we're getting close to being ready for Halloween and the holiday season that follows. Just to be sure, we're closing out the weekend by cooking up a home grown/made pumpkin pie this evening and looking forward to it being done shortly!

My Kids :) 

And So It Begins!

While up until now it has mostly been Missy and I keeping us busy with church related obligations and activities that is all about to change. The time has come for the boys to start filling our family schedule (or at least one of them). Last night Eric and I went to an informational meeting for a Cub Scout Pack that serves the area including his school. Eric was very excited to see a classmate (Ben) there and Ben seemed equally glad to see Eric. They sat together during the meeting and eagerly discussed all of the neat things they had displayed as samples of items to be earned through the program. They were quite cute as they talked about the uniforms, crafts and activities and what they thought about all of this.

At the conclusion of the meeting we officially signed up. Eric is now a “Tiger Scout” which is the youngest level (for first graders). At that level he must have a parent partner sign up with him. It didn’t take too much arm twisting to get me to sign up too! He jumps right into things with a picnic/fishing derby for new scouts Monday and his first meeting the following week.

Oh, and they will also be starting their (only) fund raiser soon, which is selling popcorn! Hope you’re hungry!

MY ROCKIN' EGG

The boys RACED upstairs to brush their teeth and go to bed tonight - all after me saying "last one up is a rotten egg!" Jesse jumped for joy when he got to the top of the steps and exclaimed "I'm the rockin' egg!!!" Who could be disappointed in having that designation?!?

He also seems to think that "Winnie the Pooh" is named "Pinny" and was very happy to sing "Happy Birthday to Me" several times this evening. 9 days away and the celebration has already begun!?!

I was very proud of Eric, he read two books to his brother all on his own. It was sweet, although he asked for a third one, his request was denied by the kind first grader.

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