October Is A Time for Pumpkin Patch and Halloween

We had a busy October. This year we got to go to two pumpkin patches. One in Utah (a real one) and then one here in Arizona the following week. For those of you not aware of Arizona pumpkin patches, you take a hay ride down to a field where they have several pumpkins nicely cut and organized on top of hay stacks. It makes it for an awesome picture background, but not really a pumpkin patch.

Karen treated us to a day out at McDonalds' Ranch. The kids loved spending time with their cousins and doing all the fun things at the pumpkin patch. I think their favorite was the petting zoo. Christopher was fearless and pretty much touched any animal he could. We ended up getting 3 more pumpkins here and now I have a whopping total of 7 pumpkins to cook, puree and freeze. I'm so excited about the thought of having pumpkin ALL year long!!! One of the pumpkins we bought was over 30 lbs!! That baby is HUGE. Not sure what we were thinking, it won't be easy to have to cut and cook it all.

Halloween this year was fun. The boys where superheroes. Drew insisted on wearing Christopher's Spiderman costume from 2 years ago  even though we bought him a brand new Ben 10 Humungasaurs Alien costume. Christopher was Ben 10Spider Monkey Alien. Clarissa, Cory and I were hippies. She was the cutest hippie. She totally understood the whole trick or treating business this year, and refused to skip any houses. This little girl ate so much candy. She always had something in her mouth the ENTIRE night.

We had our friends, the Timothy's, come out and trick or treat with us again this year. The kids got an insane about of candy, as usual, but this year I have somehow managed to hide the candy from the boys without them noticing. Kelly and Karen also joined us on Halloween day. Karen was so helpful and volunteered to stay behind at the house to pass out candy. I was grateful for her help, because it allowed me to fully trick or treat with the boys for the first time.