Getting ready for Halloween!

It's the weekend again! A lot has happened in one week and we are definitely ready for Halloween! As Dylan gets older, Halloween gets more fun. He is so excited about dressing up, pumpkins and all the decorations. My mom was in town and joined us at Tolmachoff Farms last Sunday to go pumpkin hunting. She squeezed in between the two car seats while Dylan read her a book on the way over. :)

The pumpkin patch was SOOO HOT! We were excited to participate in all of the fun activities, but found ourselves zipping through pretty fast because everyones' cheeks were getting pinker and pinker. Some day we'll do this in "normal" Fall weather.

Ava's driving, but she's not watching where she's going. :)

Dylan was given the job of picking out our pumpkins.

He lined up 5 large pumpkins in a row and said we all got one. :) Love the thought, but I'm not spending $50 on pumpkins this year. So...we got one big one and a couple smaller ones along with apple butter and canned apples to make cobbler. Yummy! Randy waited in the wagon.

Then we added the hot and tired kids to the wagon and headed home.

My mom stayed until Thursday. We spent the week shopping at some of our favorite places...Target, Michael's, Joann's and Old Navy. Of course we shopped the sales and I had coupons! :) Joann's was giving 70% off on all Halloween items. FUN! Of course I had buy a few items. I really don't have a lot of Halloween decorations, but now that Dylan has so much fun with holidays it will be more fun to decorate.

These were on the window by the front door, but one morning Dylan decided to redecorate. :)

We didn't carve the pumpkins until later in the week. He was more interested this year than last year. :)



Every night we need to go outside and turn on the jack-o-lanterns.

I should have taken the picture a couple of days ago. They are wilting in the 80-90 degree weather. Ooops.

What was Ava doing during all of this? She's a happy observer. :) We did have her try on the pumpkin headband though.

Today we were going to go to the kiddo Halloween party hosted my one of the families in our mom's group then to a hockey event in costume. Unfortunately, Dylan has croup. :( He was better today, but still sounded like a sea lion. Yesterday he was on the verge of tears most of the day because he just hurt. Today he was in better spirits. I do like his tone of voice while sick though...a whisper. :) I'm sure he'll be back to his energetic self by Monday. He has to be...he's been wearing his costume for three weeks now! We can't wait for Halloween!!