Fall Festivities

This blog is all about the pictures of this lasts weeks fun. Tristian went to Morgans for her Halloween party, we carved pumpkins, went to carnivals and did some Trick or Treating and Dave, sis and myself thought it would be fun to go to the Haunted House at the fire station here in town. Ya well I am surprised they were able to keep it open after we went through it. I think we might have broke some of the walls and decor....It was fun but I think the best part was laughing at ourselves!! Me and my sis went through there as fast as we could but my loving husband was in front of us and was taking his stinkin' time....lol Just to make sure we saw everything......well that didn't matter cause our eyes were closed and I was hanging on to his coat and she was hanging on to mine. For Halloween itself we didn't know what to dress the kids up in and they were pretty undecided, so in the normal fashion for me, I waited until that last minute and Lala and I came up with Mardi Gras girls for the younger two and Zachie was a SWAT member. Tristian bought his own stuff and we did his makeup and hair, not really sure what he was but he had fun. Trinity didn't get to go this year so there is no pic of her in a costume. As for all these pics they are really out of order and blogger isn't working so well so I am not going to fight with it to get them all in the correct order. So enjoy the order there in!!!

Zachie after getting home and going through the candy. He thought this was funny as all get out!!! Actually we all did!

Sierra (purple) and Savannah (green) finishing up one of the games at the Carnival here in town.

Tristian on his way to the party.....crazy kid!!


Mr. Zachary with all his toys.

The girls showing off before we head out for the night. It was fun getting them ready straightening their hair, makeup, nails, clothes, and coloring their hair. I couldn't have done it without you Lala, Thank You!!

All 5 of the pumpkins that we helped the kids with. Starting at the far left is Trinity, Tristian, Savannah, Sierra and Zachary's.

Everyone making one big mess!! But it was fun! Daddy was helping Zachie, I was helping Sierra and Lala was helping Trinity and others who may have needed it.

Zachie hugging his pumpkin, which is a skull. Thanks for helping Daddy!

Sierra and her spider web pumpkin. By the way my hand was killin' me by the time I got done with it. And note to self, do not use a steak knife to carve this pattern next year.

Savannah with her smiling face pumpkin. She was going to have a haunted house on hers but the pattern moved and it didn't turn out. But when it's lit and dark you'd never know that it was a oops. She didn't even care.

Tristian with his first wolf then cougar then we think it looks more like a bear pumpkin....LOL

And here is Trinity's cat in a boot pumpkin.

All in the dark and lit up!!!

Round 2 of the pumpkin patches....down!

Another Pumpkin Patch down this year. For those who know me I have never been a fan of this Holiday and I don't really like celebrating it at all. So this year we took the kids to two patches and have done more "Fall/Autumn Festivals" then "Halloween" things. This last Friday we went to a great locally family owned Craver Farms in Newman Lake WA. We went through a corn maze, picked popcorn, mini pumpkins, gourds and medium sized pumpkins as well. All for just 2.00 a person, not bad at all!!!

All the kids under one my favorite trees. Hard to get them all to smile and look good when they all want to leave and go do there thing there.....

Zachie was completely wiped out after all the running and walking we all did this day.

Sierra out in the gourds, mini pumpkin and pumpkin fields.

Savannah, Sierra & Zachary loving' on Frankenstein on the hayride to the Pumpkin Patch. Zachie really wanted to ride this particular tractor and he was so happy we got on it. It made his day!!!!

Zachie & Frankie again on the tractor/hayride.....he was talking to him about all his booboo's and band aids.....crazy kid I tell ya.

Loading up the tractor to return back to the farm after collecting all those gourds, mini pumpkins and medium size pumpkins.

Sierra trying to find her perfect gourd......
Zachie could not find that perfect gourd......none of them were good enough for him. Him and daddy walked ALL over the patch.

Savannah stopping through the fields finding all of her favorites. And she did very well. This was the day before she came down sick with another "abdominal migraine" which had her laid up for almost 4 full days. Ugh......we are still learning of what is to much for her and her triggers are. She sure did enjoy her day there though!!

Our youngest and oldest!!! Eating up all the sun. It was a perfect day to do these Fall Festivals.

All five heading in to the corn maze, our first I must say!!!

Sierra showing off her Popcorn that she picked and shucked.

Zachie with his special find in the popcorn field. We have dozens of them and we plan on popping them up around thanksgiving time.

Savannah & Sierra getting the corn as well.

and .....Trinity with hers. We are going to have a ton of popcorn at home, but there won't be any wasting it going on.

Tristian finding his perfect one......

One last pic of the farm, I just loved this tree so much so I got one more of it before we drove off. It was a beautiful sunny Autumn day and all the kids did so great and had so much fun there. We might have to make this place our family tradition! Thank you Carver Farms!!! So now we are homeward bound.....

And then once again how can I not post a blog and not have one of our silly cats pics in it. Here is Mr. Socks (Dad's kitty and the brother to my Ozzy). He is the most laid back cat and thank goodness he is.......Zachary packs him everywhere. Its very rare to find him laying down on his own with out a kid grabbing for him. So this is what pic I could shoot quickly enough. If you notice you can see one little hand reaching for his head.... I had to work quickly because he was just about to get snagged up.

and yes he has 6 toes on each front foot for that reason Tristian says he's his cat because of Tristian being born with extra digits.....lol

I think he was trying to copy Savannah laying out on the couch that day.

Did you know.......

Did you know if you put pumpkin seed in a fish tank that it will grow a pumpkin????? If you don't believe me here's the proof. We found this pretty funny so I thought I'd share it with you all. Our youngest Zachie decided to throw two seeds into the tank when we were carving the pumpkins. I'll keep you posted on the outcome.

The first four pumpkins down.....

Here is the out come to doing half of the pumpkin carving. Our oldest was a fooball practice and is staying the nights this weekend with friends so who knows when we'll get ot cutting his, it will probably be when Dad, me and Aunt Lala does ours. So of course there will be even more pumpkin pics.

Sierra showing off her pumpkin

She was so grossed out by scooping it out...thats my girlie girl

Zachie digging in...he loved it

All of them getting messy

Lala carving out the tops first

Alicia helping us out...thank you so much!!

Savannah's great pumpkin

Trinity's kitty catZachie's final out come....thanks to Alicia and Aunt Lala
Here is the first 4 pumpkins...more to come this week.

Our pumpkin patch

You know you have a big family when your pumpkin count looks like this. More to come when we carve them, stay tuned.