October 2011

Snapshots of life here in October

 David and Marissa made a huge pile of leaves to jump into.

 Megan and her friends Laura and 

Deanna had fun jumping on the trampoline in their new homecoming dresses from the thrift store.

 Amber and her cousin Nicole at their cousin Mackenzie's wedding.

Zombie Marissa and the Phantom of the Opera (David) on Halloween.

Halloween pumpkins

We found the regular pumpkins very hard to carve this year, but we did our best. Here are the finished products.

Steven's sad face pumpkin.

I don't think he really wanted it sad, but that is the only way the knife would go into the pumpkin; it was so hard!

Amber got very creative with her cinderella pumpkin (this was not made with a kit or anything!)

Marissa and David went with the scary look.

Megan made the best use of her pumpkins unique shape!

Marissa as a hatless witch, David as Darth Vader and Steven as ?

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving

We waited until the Monday before Halloween to carve our pumpkins so they might not be totally moldy by the holiday. David wasn't so sure about touching the guts, but Steven couldn't get enought of it! The kids were all very creative. Amber helped David and I helped Marissa a little. We ended the activity with caramel apples. Yum!
See the resemblance?

The Finished Product on the Front Porch