Halloween fun begins...

It's only the 19th of October and we have already had lots of Halloween fun. This past weekend we went to the campground for the Halloween festivities. Reagan went down Friday night and planted magic pumpkin seeds. She spent the night and visited the pumpkin patch the next morning to find the magic pumpkins that had grown over night! She even picked out one for Alex. She hung out with Nana and Poppy all day playing games, single handily supporting the cake walk (thanks to Nana and Poppy) and painting the pumpkins for her and Alex. She also carved some pumpkins with Nana and Aunt Kathy. Matt, Alex and I joined in the fun later that afternoon for the chili cook-off, dinner, costume contest and trick-or-treating.

At the cook off, Matt and John Cox were 2 of the 3 judges. It was a blind test taste and they ended up picking dad's as second place. We had lots of fun with that one. Apparently dad needs to do a better job picking and paying the judges!

After dinner we dressed the kids up for the costume contest. Kids came out of the woodwork it seemed like. I wondered if there would be any other babies and there ended up being about 15! Alex took home 2nd place as a baby robot. We were pretty excited since there was some touch competition! Reagan had a ton of kids in her 7-12 year old age group so unfortunately she didn't win but she still had a good time as a devil cheerleader.

On Sunday the 4 of us headed out to Boyd's Orchard to find our pumpkin to be carved. It was a beautiful but very windy day. We again tried to mimic one of the pictures Matt has of Reagan as a baby. She is standing behind 2 pumpkins propped up on them with her arms. You can see our attempt below. It turned out pretty good but Alex wasn't so sure about it. Turns out he had a right to be concerned. Right after we took the picture, the pumpkin in the front right started to roll. It was a slow roll but he ended up on his belly on the ground and was NOT pleased. He let us know that he did not appreciate that at all. I was right beside him the whole time (you can see me in the picture) so I wouldn't have let him get hurt. I had to laugh a little at how upset he got over being on the ground. Needless to say, we didn't attempt the pumpkin picture again and will just stick with the one we got before the tumble.

Here are some pictures from the campground and the orchard:

Daddy and the baby robot during the costume contest.

The devil cheerleader!

Baby robot!

Cheerleader and robot.

Hanging out at the orchard.

The pumpkin picture, right before the tumble.



Family picture!