Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!! We hope you have a safe and fun holiday!

What We've Been Doing

I made homemade cinnamon rolls and delivered to friends and took the rest to work. My mama's recipe is delicious!

Went to the fall festival at The First Baptist Church

Played with the newest addition of our household... Tucker James (TJ)

Went to Trick or Treat Street in downtown Augusta, which included a free movie. Dylan and Madelyn both won prizes at the movie.

Go-carting at the Back Alley with friends

Pumpkin Carving

This is the first year I was master pumpkin carver. Since I have very little artistic ability I knew this would be a challenge and would likely end up being a disaster if I didn't have some assistance. Off to Wal-Mart we went to locate a pumpkin carving kit with stencils. I let Madelyn pick out the design and of course she chose one of the more challenging ones, but I was up for the challenge. The end result didn't turn out terrible but there is room for improvement next go round.

Madelyn's favorite part is cleaning out the pumpkin "guts" and cleaning the pumpkin seeds. 

 Getting the pumpkin seeds ready for baking.

 The final product... It says WELCOME... kind of

Pumpkin Patch 2011

Last Saturday Madelyn and I met my sister and niece, Aubrey, at Walter's Pumpkin Patch in Burns, KS. There is so much more than pumpkin picking to do at Walters. It was an awesome day for the pumpkin patch.  Madelyn and Aubrey had fun with all the festivities and DeAnn and I had fun cracking jokes and poking fun.

Here just a few of the pics from that afternoon (in no particular order).

Such concentration as she picked out the perfect pumpkin

 Naughty girls

Madelyn sure would have liked to take this kitten home, too bad she is allergic.

This was so funny to watch in person.

 Jimmy cracked corn... DeAnn came up with a good one when Aubrey got corn in her crack. We figured dad would be proud.