Pre-Halloween...

It was so fun decorating for Halloween in our new house! I feel like I finally have enough room for my decorations. ( I love to pick up cheap/clearance things after the holidays and have slowly been collecting things over the years. Also, I've inherited a lot of decor from my mom and Kathryn)

So, we set the mood in the house:

These rats were a new addition, my mother in law sent us up, I thought they were pretty fun! :)

Next on the list of things to do to get ready for Halloween was, of course, go to the pumpkin patch! We went up to Greenbluff with Taylor's pre-school. We got to go on a hay ride:

Me and my guuurl:

Taylor and her two friends, Amber and Lily:

The kids got a pollination lesson in the apple orchard:

It was such a beautiful day!

Then got to pick their very own apple:

In the maze with her friend, Lily:

And her friend, William:

Then she got to pick her very own pumpkin!

The talking pumpkin kind of scared her a bit. Here is her reaction right after it started talking. :) She immediately got up and ran about 20 feet back to listen to it.

Taylor ended up choosing a pumpkin for all of us, that sweet girl!

Tucker also got to go to a pumpkin patch with his class. I didn't go, so I have no pictures. But he did get to pick out a pumpkin and then they had a pumpkin decorating contest in his class. This is Tucker's pumpkin and how he chose to decorate it:

I thought it turned out pretty cute, and he won 'funniest' (?) pumpkin. I went in to help with the party and saw all of the pumpkins and man, I was impressed with the kids creativity! I mean, this was just a kit we bought, but some of the kids went all out! So fun!

We went to our good friends house to paint pumpkins with them. Taylor decided to go black and white with hers with pink sparkles on it! 

Sweet Avery helping Taylor decorate her pumpkin:

I love how Avery's pumpkin turned out, here is one side:

And on the other side, this:

The note just kills me! She did that one all on her own! :)

Tucker's pumpkin:

These two boys have to be the silliest boys I know, and together...sheesh! I love their sweet friendship. Tucker and Owen are BFF's and it's fun that me and Meg have been very good friends since we were 12!!!

It is my goal in life to get Kate to like me. She will never give me the time of day. So, when I had my camera out and she was actually looking at me and smiling and playing, I was pretty excited. Avery was making this face on purpose! :)

I had no intentions of doing any more pumpkins, but the kids found these 'Mr. Potato head' pumpkin kits that they have now. I forgot I got two on clearance last year after Halloween, so we went out and got 2 more small pumpkins and we decorated them Mr. Potato head style. Which was fairly quick and easy! :) My kind of activity!

Taylor's pumpkin princess:

And the kids posing with their pumpkins in front of the house. They are nuts!

But I do love everything about this picture. Taylor trying to be like her big brother, the beautiful fall leaves on our grass, the sun set reflecting on the house. Our new home (where our kids will be raised) and all the pumpkins in our front walkway. I just feel like it is so picturesque. I hope there are many more Halloweens to come in our home!