Pumpkin Day!

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This year we did a more low key Pumpkin Day than we did last year. The costumes still weren't finished so they were priority. Plus, Taylor had a wedding so he left late in the afternoon and was gone all evening. All that to say, we kind of cheated this year and bought a "fake" pumpkin at Hobby Lobby. It was SO much easier. Maybe we'll do a real one on Halloween. Maybe not. Most of what we did had to do with food, so my kids are eating in most of the pictures :)

Pumpkin Pancakes

Pumpkin Sandwiches

Looks good!

Carving the fake pumpkin. No gooey mess!

Helping Mom make pumpkin cupcakes

Pumpkin Pasta dinner. Grammy even sent special Halloween shaped pasta in a care package this year.

Enjoying the pumpkin cupcakes.

Ending the day watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

If you're interested in any of the recipes, click here to go to last year's post.

Another Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

This time it was John Curtis's turn to go to the pumpkin patch with his class. He doesn't usually go on Fridays, but Taylor took him up there so he could enjoy it with his friends.

Fall Photo Shoot

On Tuesday John Curtis and I met our friends Carey, Connor, and Carter at a local market where they sell all different kinds of pumpkins and beautiful mums among other things. I bought some pecans, little pumpkins, and some local honey that is supposed to help with our horrible allergies. Really though, it was just an excuse to take some pictures. As you can tell in several of the pictures, John Curtis has really perfected his cheesy smile.

Sea World in the Fall

Much to Taylor's dismay, I thought it would be a good idea to use our Sea World passes yet again to go check out their Halloween festivities. So we made the trek there and back on Saturday. It was a long day, but the kids had a great time.

Dolphin Cove is always our first stop. The dolphins were especially active that morning.

Next we like to tour the aquarium.

They had a bunch of different houses set up for trick or treating later that night. We couldn't stay that late and the kids didn't know anything about it so they just thought they were great spots to take pictures.

Sophie loves the Shamu Express.

Happy Harbor was decorated in pirate skeletons for Halloween. I'm very surprised Sophie held his hand. JC wouldn't go near them.

Pumpkin fish!

More rides.

The highlight of the day was definitely the Count Dracula Sesame Street show.

They also had an exhibit where you walk through to see a lot of underwater characters. Sophie's favorite was this "beautiful" mermaid. We had to go through twice just to see her. I thought she was a little scary in her blue lipstick.

Friday Night Lights

Field Trip to Pumpkin Patch

Happy Birthday G-Momma!

G-Momma and Poppa came to visit this weekend from Texarkana. G-Momma's birthday was last week, so we spent the weekend playing and celebrating her birthday.

The kids helped make her cake on Friday before they got there.

Playtime with Poppa!
Playtime with G-Momma

They brought their new puppy, Judge and John Curtis loved playing with him.

He finally found someone who has the same amount of energy as him.

For lunch on Saturday we went to Shoguns for Kay's special birthday lunch.
I thought the kids would love it, but as you can see they were a little freaked out by the fire. The adults loved it though.

That night we finally did cake and presents.

Sophie wanted to put 5 candles on the cake.

What a great weekend!