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Celebrating Autumn

Autumn is my very favorite time of year. There is something so wonderful about the crisp mornings that warm up to a beautiful sunny day. The best part of this time of year though is the beautiful colors the trees leaves turn and of course, heading out to find the “Great Pumpkin”. This year Jakob, Madison and myself went with my Mom to a really cool pumpkin patch. They had hayrides, pumpkin slings, catapults, animals, food, hot cider, popcorn, caramel apples, slides and so much more. Even better, we ran into Josh’s cousins Jody & Jeane and their kids while we were standing in line to go the bathroom. It was a party and we all had so much fun finding our pumpkins and hanging out together for the day.

Josh and I were fortunate enough to get out without the kids for a little while this month too. My Uncle Matt threw a party to celebrate my cousin Rachel’s birthday & graduation from college, so we got to go out, have a couple of drinks and visit with family & friends.  It was great, most of all because we were without children! 

Every year Jakob and I decorate cookies or cupcakes.  This year we made some great and tasty Halloween cookies.  Jakob is so creative and baking with the kids is always so memorable and fun!

Halloween is a big deal around here with Jakob. He is a major advocate of pumpkin carving, pumpkin pie, dressing up and like every kid, candy!!! October is always a really fun month for us.  This year Jakob carved a pumpkin with grandpa at the beginning of the month, one in the middle of the month, and then 3 with us on Halloween. Unfortunately our latest pumpkins didn’t come out so well. Typically we spend a lot of time carefully carving our pumpkins, but this year, Madison cried most of the time we were carving. She has been super cranky because her eye teeth are coming in. Needless to say, we carved quick and in that desperate hurry a pumpkin was sadly lost. Oh well, better luck next year!  You can’t win them all

Halloween this year was super cool! We had friends and family join us for pizza, beer, vanilla rum & hot cider and most of all trick or treating. It was a hoot! It was Mahala’s (my cousins daughter) first Halloween and she was dressed super cute as a firefighter! Jakob went this year as BumbleBee the transformer and Madison went as a fairy. The look on Maddy’s face when she realized people were putting candy in her bucket was priceless especially when she saw her favorite…M&M’s.

I know I have already put up a ton of photos, but I have one more set I would like to share. Madison likes to play in my makeup while I’m putting it on. So I decided to take some pictures of her. She is so funny and her hair in these pictures absolutely cracks me up!

I hope everyone had a great October and a wonderful Halloween!!!