Trick or Treat

Its carving time...William drew the face

Daddy helps with the carving

Looking good

Annabel and her pumpkin that Miss Amanda helped with

Our pumpkin patch

School Parade and class party

Annabel was so excited to wear her Tinkerbell costume to school

William's Class

Spooky snacks

Halloween

Our Life Group got together for a potluck prior to trick or treating.
Our church really promotes Life Group gathering together and having games and candy for prizes as a way to meet more people in the community.
It was a huge success. We had 6 games and a table with nachos and water.
My favorite comments of the night:
"seriously- this is FREE"
"the nachos are real and it's real warm cheese"
Nothing but the best for neighbors!
Buddies

Our Cuties

Trick or treat

Carving Pumpkins & Trick or Treating

Carving Pumpkins

William was so excited to carve pumpkins!
He liked everything about it but sticking his hands in and taking out the junk.
The Boys carved one and the Girls carved a second.

The boys getting to work

Top off- lets dig in
Well, Daddy can ...
I will watch
William did a FANTASTIC job carving his pumpkin.
He needed very little help.

The girls getting busy. Annabel was just in a funk this day.
She was a bit reserved about the Halloween.
The one part she did LOVE was caring her pumpkin bag.
She was curious!

Pumpkin smile
The kids and their Jack-O-Lanterns

HALLOWEEN- time to put on the costumes
A Cow, A Pirate and a couple of Jack-O-Lanterns
Annabel and her pumpkins

Annabel was less than thrilled to wear a costume.

Arr

Mommy and her trick or treaters!
Man- these kids got so much candy their bags were over flowing.
William counted his candy for about a week.
He was curious why each day there were fewer pieces.
We tried to tell him when you eat one you have one less.
He was also shocked to learn that Daddy took a bag of HIS candy to work.
Oh the lessons of sharing, math, and fun!

Love Creek Orchard

Love Creek Orchard-Medina, TX

This past weekend we headed out to Love Creek Orchard. It is about an hour from San Antonio.

This is a working apple/pumpkin orchard. William had been asking for weeks if we

could go to Apple Hill, (which is just outside Auburn, CA.

We have gone there the last few falls and have had a blast!) Sorry Buddy, we live too far now.

So the pressure was on to find an alternative.

We really had no idea what to expect. We were hoping to find some apple trees, pick some apples off the tree and pick some pumpkins off the vine.

Boy were we wrong.

This orchard was fun but very commercialized-

every variety of pumpkins you can imagine.

They were grouped but type placed on hay bails. WEIRD!

You could decorate your own scarecrow, paint your own pumpkin, hay rides,

tractor rides,hay maze, pony rides, petting zoo, and Banjo show. (kids loved it)

It is near impossible to grow pumpkins in Texas. We tried and failed. :(

We did have FUN! It was a beautiful drive and we enjoyed a day out as a family.

William eager to explore the hay maze

Annabel is off to catch up to BIG Brother

"Where is he?"

Everyone made it out- whew

So proud!

Time to pet and feed the goats

Annabel was eager to feed the goats all by herself

"Here you go"

Tractor ride to check out the orchard

Cute pumpkins!

I'll take this one please

We ended our day with a "Caterpillar Train" ride

They had a ball!
Though this was not Apple Hill it satisfied our fall activity.