Pumkin Party Part 1

When I got our Halloween decorations out at the beginning of the month, there was also Brooke's plastic pumpkin she uses to go trick or treating. I was explaing to her about Halloween and that later we would go to a pumpkin patch to get a pumpkin. I think that was too much for her little brain to handle. Brooke coverted "pumpkin patch" to "pumpkin party" and she started carrying around her plastic pumpkin and calling that her pumpkin party. So a pumpkin party is not an event, it's a thing. When we go somewhere she says, "oh, I need to get my pumpkin party" and she'll run to get her plastic pumpkin which she has stuffed full of random objects like a dirty shirt, her sippy, some toys, scraps of paper etc...I"ll have you know those pumpkins on the left are some that I made in young women's when I was 12! Yep, pretty proud of my craftiness.

Earlier this month, Blake shot his first bull elk. We was pretty excitied. It's not much for horns, but it's meat in the freezer.Do you think Brooke has any idea that she is sitting next to a dead animal? She's not her father's daughter for nothing!On October 15 it was the annual Oktoberfest. Steph and her family came out to visit, plus Blake's cousin & family, and the neighbors came out to celebrate with us. Jane, Brooke, Amelia, Josh, Kennedy, Kassidy, Kaitlyn (triplets!!), Alexia and Ben in front

We took a hayride to chocolate rock. The kids had fun stopping along the way to get clues for for the treasure hunt.After the kids found the treasure, I was the mean mom who had to inspect Brooke's treat to make sure it was okay. I love how brooke is looking up so expectantly at me.The kids found a lizard and Brooke was beyond excited to touch it. (Please ignore her chocolate mouth)And this is the "Hey Courtney! Let's get a profile shot!" And these pictures of B. kill me! We went on a trip over the fall break this past week (that will be the pumpkin party part 2 post) and I got some snowboots for Brooke (you know, for like the 5 times she'll go outside this winter). Brooke LOVES them. She wanted to wear them right away...and her snow hat...and bring her halloween bucket...and keep wearing her puppy back-pack (or pack-pack is how B. says it) She was very proud of herself. We had to get her picture taken next to our small fruit tree. Hopefully someday it will be huge and we'll say "Do you remember when our trees were that small?!"