Pumpkin Carving/ Painting

One of my favorite things about October is carving pumpkins. I LOVE IT!! We decided to buy some finger paints for Porter to paint his white pumpkin with instead of carving it. At first Porter was so careful and used 1 little finger to put a few dabs of paint on the pumpkin. He also had to wipe his hands on his rag every couple of seconds to get the paint off..haha, silly boy.

but soon he got the hang of it and soon his pumpkin (and him) were completely covered in paint. But I think he had a lot of fun. He kept calling his pumpkin, 'The Scary Halloween Pumpkin'.

He also had fun helping Paul and I take the pumpkin seeds and gunk out of our pumpkins.

Here is Paul and his silly pumpkin carving faces. And here I am busy carving my pumpkin.

So I totally wasn't thinking and I had already packed all of our lighters and our matches for the move. Thank goodness for Paul and his creativeness because he turned on the stove to high, put a piece of paper to the burner and lit our pumpkins in no time. I think they turned out so cute. Here they are. I love Paul's pirate pumpkin. We had such a fun evening.

Porter and Friends

Porter's cute little friend Cameron had a little Halloween craft/ cookie decorating party last Wednesday. It was so much fun. Porter loved it. They all made a cute little candy corn magnets to hang on the fridge, and then they decorated Halloween cookies. SO MUCH FUN!! Here's Porter working on his craft, and here is his cute little magnet when he was all done.
And the kids had SO MUCH FUN decorating the cookies. There were tons of fun Halloween sprinkles and lots of frosting...yummy!!

Watching little 2 and 3 year olds frosting and decorating cookies was probably the cutest thing I have ever seen. So much fun!! Thanks so much Cameron and Sara for inviting us!!

Pack's Pumpkin Patch

We were so excited about going to the pumpkin patch this year. There is a very fun little pumpkin patch in Farmington that we found last year called Pack's Pumpkin Patch. We love it there. It has a cute maze for the kids, a huge tractor to ride on, lots and lots of pumpkins to choose from, and HUGE pumpkins to play on. Porter had so much fun running through the maze. He just thought it was the funnest thing to chase Mommy and Daddy through the maze. When he found a dead end part, he would duck down and hide from us. He was so cute! And he got SO EXCITED when he saw all of the pumpkins. He wanted them all. He was so cute picking out the pumpkins that he wanted. Paul had a blast choosing pumpkins for us too..what a handsome guy!! :) Porter thought that pulling the wheelbarrow was the coolest thing ever and pushed it for such a long time. He is such a little toughy. We finally talked him into getting in the wheelbarrow with me and Daddy pushed us for a long time. So much fun! I felt like a little kid again! :) We had such a fun afternoon at the pumpkin patch! I just love this time of year and I love my cute little family. I can't wait to carve our pumpkins tomorrow! :)

I WON A 16GB iPad 2

I just won a free 16GB iPad2 from a contest I entered on facebook with Delicious Buying Group and Castle Creek Homes. Over 1,000 people entered and there was only 1 winner. These usually go for more than $500! Yippeeee!! :) We are going to have a lot of fun with this one! Can't believe I actually won. I never win anything. I'm so excited!! :) Today when I went to go and pick it up, they made me take a whole bunch of pictures with some of the head honchos of the company. It was pretty funny!! Now I just need to decide if I will keep it, or if I will cash it in for the money instead..hmm..!! :)