Costumes

These are the best photos I have gotten of the girls in their costumes so far. Luckily, there will be more opportunity for photos soon!

Jocelyn insisted on posing with the watermelon!

It doesn't look like Reagan is enjoying the hat very much, huh?

She Did It!

Reagan rolled over for the first time today!

Pumpkin Carving!

A new year, a new jack-o-lantern.

I have decided that carving the pumpkin isn't my favorite Halloween activity. I enjoy having a nicely carved pumpkin, and I love the excitement it creates for Jocelyn, but I hate finding the perfect face. Every year I search high and low on the Internet to find a face that suits the pumpkin we chose, and every year I never find it. After searching for hours (well, maybe it just SEEMS like hours) I usually end up sitting and staring at the pumpkin and eventually the right face comes to me. I draw it on with a dry erase marker and then cut it out. I really wish Todd were more artistic and would be in charge of this activity!

Before carving our first pumpkin we sat Reagan on top so you had an accurate representation of how big the pumpkin was. This is the last year we buy a big pumpkin. From now on we will buy a nice, smaller-sized pumpkin.

Todd is in charge if the guts!

"Wow"

Jocelyn is in charge of the seeds.

Since we usually carve two pumpkins, and since Jocelyn started having a favorite character, I will carve her favorite "friend" on the other.

Here they are, all lit up.

Halloween Painting

Trax Farms 2010

I love fall, and I especially love the time leading up to Halloween. Taking our annual trip to Trax Farms is always exciting, especially now that we have kiddos to enjoy it with. This year was especially exciting for three reasons; #1: Jocelyn actually understood where we were going and what we would be doing there; #2: It was Reagan's first time, and #3 Meme and Papa were here to go with us!

I love getting the classic pumpkin pictures!

Jocelyn was really excited for the children's activities, but is still learning the whole waiting in line process. She doesn't want to wait and always tries to skip the line! Here she is waiting in line with daddy for the train (her favorite)

Jocelyn was tall enough for this ENORMOUS slide. She was SO brave climbing all the way up there. When she sat down at the top of the slide I could see that she was afraid, but she still went down!

This was some giant air-filled pumpkin that the kids went into and caught balloons that were blowing around. It seemed silly to me, but the kids liked it.

Then she jumped in the bouncy house!
Reagan pretty much just rode around on Mommy, but she was happy to do so!
Jocelyn also liked organizing pumpkins with MeMe!
It was a really fun day and I'm sad it's over until next year. We may be trying out a different pumpkin patch if we get another nice weekend before Halloween! It's just too much fun to not do again! I hope we can find one with a hay ride that doesn't cost an arm and a leg (like it did at Trax, which is why we skipped it).

Happy Harvest!

Reagan Talks Again (and ALL the time now)!