Somehow I have missed an entire month of blogging! Time to catch up. I’m going to attempt October in ONE blog post. Can she do it, folks? Let’s find out.
The Pumpkin Patch
The headrest
The corn box
You’ll notice there are no pictures of Reagan this time. He decided to head off on his own to the “Unique Pumpkin” patch and so I never really got a good picture of him. But here he is with his Green “unique” pumpkin on carving night.
Finished Product: A Creeper Pumpkin
Levi spent almost the entire pumpkin carving night just trying to find the right pattern.
I begged and pleaded with him to just give up and do a normal pumpkin face.
But would have none of it. Sigh.
Five minutes before bedtime he did finally decide on a regular face. On his own.
When will I learn to save my breath?
Cade decided to do just eyes this year.
Finished Products
The carvers were all too wiggly by this point to make for a non blurry picture,
so you only get the pumpkins.
Reagan’s Birthday
After the pumpkin patch but before Halloween, Reagan turned the big 14!
Yes, girls, he can now go to dances. I’m having a very hard time with this one.
Lucky for me, so is he!
After the Pumpkin Patch but before Reagan’s birthday and before I had purchased their Halloween costumes, Liberty and Levi dressed up for their school Harvest Festival.
Personally I thought these costumes were darling and I wanted them to stick with these.
They were costumes we already had around the house.
Unfortunately, frugality did not win the costume contest this year.
Halloween!
Levi, the Dessert Storm soldier
“A Beautiful Butterfly” said the big fat caterpillar in A Bugs Life.
The back of the “Beautiful Butterfly”
The hairdo of the Beautiful Butterfly
The “Nerfer”
He had a big ol’ nerf gun strapped to his back,
He had a big ol’ nerf gun strapped to his back,
as well as an attitude about my taking his picture.
The only picture I got of Reagan’s costume was in the following video. He was a Ranger from the book series The Rangers Apprentice. He convinced us, well, he convinced Rock, to let him hide on the roof and throw candy down to the trick or treaters. I had my doubts (and fears) which turned out to be right. Because it was dark, it did not work out as he had hoped. None of the kids knew there was candy falling from the sky unless it hit them in the face, which did not lead to happy trick or treaters or happy trick or treating parents. Reagan is vowing to reevaluate and try again next year. I am just hoping he forgets about it.
And that was October 2016! Whew!
Short n Sweet 