Happy Fall

Much fun was had this pumpkin season.  In addition to visiting the pumpkin patch/hayride/maze I wrote about in a previous blog post, we did other fall-ish fun type activities like...

...we painted pumpkins.

I'm not sure what is considered 'too many pumpkins' to have at one's house in the fall, but I believe I counted  21 in our house this season...either painted, carved, and just sitting around as decorations.

I've gotten rather good at not helping to make them looks pretty and perfect.  I'll help if I'm asked, but I just smile and take pictures if I'm not.

...we rode bikes dressed as a mushroom named Toad.

...we had fun with friends at our church's fall festival.

...we carved faces on pumpkins.

We had a lot of seeds from those pumpkins and roasted all of them; most salted and some cinnamon sugar.  We sent two small baggies to Chris and the rest were gone in a few days.  The boys loved them.  Well, their mama did too.

From left to right: Gabriel's T for Toad, Anna's smiley face, Christopher's M for Mario, Leah's sad face, and Matthew's L for Luigi (hahaha, backwards)

...we ate Halloween themed food.

orange pancakes

grape/kiwi spider, mandarin orange pumpkin cups, and a jack-o-lantern quiche

If you could see it in my mind, you'd be more impressed.

...we played 'Pin the Nose of the Pumpkin'.

...and we went trick or treating in the neighborhood.

I was a little nervous doing this part on my own.  I took the girls in the wagon and the boys ended up going ahead of us with a friend who has a cell phone and while I was a little frantic when the girls and I got home and the boys were still out, I remembered (duh!) about the friend's cell phone, called them, and found out they had gone down a side street that the girls and I has skipped, so they were a bit behind us.  

Happy Fall!