Fall Activities

Last week was a busy one around here. On Monday Makele had her field trip to Black Island Farms. She was so excited that I signed up to chaperone. Riding the bus:

On the "hayride" (don't know why they call it that - no hay was involved) out to the pumpkin fields.


We started out in the kiddie corn maze and somehow got off course and ended up going through the bigger mazes. It might have been due to the fact that the girls cut through the field... I was getting a little worried we might not find our way out!

On Wednesday, we had a Halloween Carnival at the church. I almost fell over when I saw this shot - they are actually all looking at the camera and looking pleasant (if not a bit cheesy in Jack's case)!
I made Aiden's costume with a lot of help from Taryn. She made one for Dustin and gave me the pattern she made which I just adjusted down. She also provided all the material - not too bad, right?
Taryn also sent me a link for these shirts Jeff and I are wearing. They were relatively easy to make and the kids loved them. It's probably the first time I have done any kind of dressing up since the kids can remember.
Thursday Jack had his party and then a parade around the school. He looked so cute in his Luigi costume. I had fully intended on putting together his costume myself, but I could not for the life of my find overalls that fit him. I found some girls' in Savers that had Harry Potter stitched on the front of them. I bought them thinking I could somehow cover that. When I pulled them out at home, I realized I had missed one important thing - they sparkled all over! Jack wasn't too keen on that, so I finally just gave up and went and bought the costume.
Thursday night Makele had her school Fall Festival. The kids look forward to it every year. Aiden was a madman running from room to room and getting into EVERYTHING! Thank heavens Jeff was in charge of coralling him, because I couldn't keep up with him! When we first got there, a little boy about Aiden's age who was dressed as Elmo saw Aiden and got all excited. He said, "Buzz! Buzz!" and grabbed onto Aiden's wings and started pulling him around. Aiden freaked! I mean he loves Elmo, but I think that up close and personal encounter was a little too much. He might not ever look at Elmo the same! ;)
On Saturday we went to pick out pumpkins. Once again Aiden was running around everywhere, and more than once Jeff had to stop him from running into the street.
Wow, this picture is impressive... ;)
We carved pumpkins Saturday afternoon. The kids kept asking when we were going to do it, but then when it came time, they cleaned a couple seeds out and were done. Jeff and I ended up doing the rest. Although they did line us out on how they wanted them carved. Thank heavens for that, I don't know how we would have done it without their direction. ;)