All Hallow's Eve

We packed a ton into this Halloween day and evening. Heather went back to school this week for bits and pieces, but we're glad she's able to go to some of the school day. We've been off our schedule the past six weeks, so today we played catch up.

First up was visiting a pumpkin patch. The girls care not about this, but since it's an annual tradition, we popped onto the lot at our local fruit and vegetable stand for a picture. I wish their pumpkins weren't so pricey! We found our pumpkins at Walmart one day when Heather was home. Super affordable and not bad looking.  We carved them in the late afternoon. Kelly was the master carver and oversaw the carving. The girls, and Kelly, too, did an outstanding job on their jack-o-lanterns!

I did some last minute decorating for our neighborhood Trick-or-Treaters, and the girls got decked out again in their costumes.  Madi and Kenzie joined Heather in our neighborhood while Jenna went with friends in the Greenbrook neighborhood. Ironically, our neighborhood was the place to be. The older girls collected about six pounds of candy each, some candy being full size bars! There isn't much activity in our neighborhood, but the neighbors still hand out candy. The result is handfuls of candy being distributed. After traditional candy trading, Heather did share a lot of her candy with Jenna which made Jenna's not-so-great stash a little more tolerable. What a nice big sister she has!

Happy Halloween!

p.s. - Girls, will you still come home to Trick-or-Treat when you're in college? I'm going to miss this terribly!

Pumpkin Patch

Can I just start out by saying...wow.  "Time flies" is the understatement of the day for me today.  How did these girls get so grown up?  Wasn't it just last year that we packed up the family and headed to the farm for pumpkin patch family night?  If our favorite farm was still around, we'd probably be there, but it would be different.  My girls are young women now and they'd probably be too big to ride the ponies.  Sniff.  I find myself flooded with memories of their little bodies riding the ponies, petting the animals in the petting zoo, fingering the hay on the hay bales, watching the pig races and running through the corn maze.  What special times those were!

Anyway, it's now two days before Halloween, and we hadn't been to a pumpkin patch.  We got a tip from the Holbrook's that Bruce's Produce had a little makeshift patch with great prices.  Check out the size of the pumpkins that we got!  They don't look as big in the photos, but they were heavy.  All three were $15.  Can't beat that!