Carving pumpkins!

We carved pumpkins for family home evening...the pumpkins from our garden!  Fun!

 Talia quite enjoyed pulling out the guts for her pumpkin.

 Eliza...not so much.

 The girls with their pumpkins...Eliza carved Tinkerbell, Daddy a Y, and Talia carved Mickey Mouse.

 Silly girls.

 Sitting out on the porch...

...and in the dark.

I usually get a little bit more sentimental and carve a good old fashioned jack-o-lantern.  Sadly, not this year...Mickey Mouse wore me out!

Happy Carving!

Beautiful weather!

October has been an amazingly sunny, warm month...and we have loved it!

 One day the girls decided to read books on the swing set...that is until a bee started bothering them!  But it was sweet while it lasted.

Sunday rest...

Daddy's favorite part about Sunday.  This doesn't happen very often anymore but Talia wouldn't miss nursery for anything.  Which makes 1:00 church a little tough on her so she usually crashes when we get home.  And on this particular Sunday - daddy did too!

School Jog-a-thon...

The week of Eliza's school jog-a-thon they had a spirit week.  She wanted to do something with her hair on crazy hair day.

 This is about as "crazy" as our daughter gets - and it took a little convincing!

 We went to watch her run for a little while and I have to say we were very impressed!  She worked hard!  She ran 15 laps - which totaled 3 miles!  Looks like we have a future Hero Up runner!

 She loves her cousins so she was pretty excited to spend some of her time on the track with Bella!

Way to run Eliza!

Fun weekend...

We had a fun weekend getting some fall work done at Cocolalla and celebrating Audrey's birthday a little early.

 We decided to paint the wall before hanging the TV on it.  Having lots of hands made the work go fast!

 I was wondering why Darran kept taking pictures of the wall as we were painting...now I see why.  I apparently missed the big Y on the wall while we were in the process!

 Yeah!  So much better!

 The highlight of the weekend was celebrating Audrey's birthday (and having Jon home with us made it that much better)!

Happy birthday Audrey...we love you!

Harvest time!

We planted pumpkins in our garden this year.  I wanted to grow some mini pumpkins and gourds to decorate with.  Little did I know what we would end up with!

 Talia (with cherry tomatoes in her cheeks) and Eliza in front of our pumpkins.

 This was our first haul - it took us 2 days to pick them all!  

 Bigger pumpkins.

 Gourds, spaghetti squash, some more tomatoes and cantaloupe.

 And this was our second haul.  We had about 150 mini pumpkins and about 45 small to larger sized pumpkins.  We seriously had no idea we would get that many but it sure was fun to watch them grow (and take over our garden).  And after giving lots away I still had plenty to decorate with!

Talia and Eliza are always a big help in the garden!

Happy Harvest!