Sorting Laundry

One of the things that I love about our new house is having 1st floor laundry..and I'm enjoying the front load washing machine too.  It's been easy to involve the kids in helping with laundry this way.  Here they are learning how to sort the laundry into darks, lights, and whites. 

 They help put the soap in and then love to watch their jammies go round and round.  

Halloween 2012

Our town had Trick or Treating the Thursday before Halloween.  We were much earlier than everyone else, but the weather was the best ever!  It was 74 degrees and sunny...perfect for a wagon ride and trick or treating!  

Here are my little trick or treaters!  

My sweet little butterfly and silly little elephant :)  

 In the wagon and ready to go

 Daddy made their job easy  

 Trick or treat

 I love the wings and elephant tail  

 someone is guarding her candy well...

 Hey there Dumbo :)

 At home we had milk and pumpkin cookies with Pop and Nana...what a fun day!  

Fall photo shoot

This was another one of our beautiful October days...we were already outside playing, so I grabbed a few shots of my cuties.  

Walking down the driveway together  

Hannah

 Isaac

love this one of my Ikey

 Pure joy

 Leaves!

Pumpkin Carving

We had so much fun carving pumpkins together.  Our trick or treating at our new house was early, so pumpkin carving was too...we were glad to have nice warm weather to enjoy!  

Hannah was so excited...here are some of her brainstorming sketches (including a picture of the Holy Bible).  

It was so nice outside that we were able to take the messiness to our back patio :)

 Hannah wanted a Hello Kitty pumpkin, and Isaac wanted Cookie Monster...good thing their Daddy is an artist :)  

 We sorted and cleaned pumpkin seeds as we pulled them out.  We dried them and roasted them.  This is the recipe we used ans we all agreed they were the best pumpkin seeds we've ever had!  

 Hannah's Hello Kitty Pumpkin.  

 My kiddos and their pumpkins  

 all lit up  

More Cousin Time

We had the privilege of getting to see Cody, Erica, Eli and Cal during their family vacation.  They stopped in for an overnight.  It was fun to share our new house with them and enjoy the playtime.  

The boys loved riding around on the "bike"

 They were able to join us for pizza and movie night.  Hannah and Eli decided it should be a pajama party :)  

Cousin Time!

We LOVE getting to see more of cousins Ethan and Abby.  On this day, we got to spend the whole day with them while Auntie Beth was at work.  What a day it was!  :)

Imaginative playtime  

 Fall tree paintings with q-tips  

 Here are the finished products

 Hannah

A Day at the Pumpkin Patch

We took an AWANA family field trip to the pumpkin patch.  What a fun time we had!  

Isaac went straight to this little pumpkin.  It was so cute to see him pick it out and try to carry it back.  

 Hannah's was a little bit bigger  

 Playing in soy beans!  

 Seth led the kids in worship  

 and we had snacks.  

What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon!