Spooky Dinner 2012

We had our annual spooky dinner on Sunday.  Boston has had an OBSESSION lately with all things "spooky" from wanting our house to look super scary, to watching scary movies (Monster House..over and OVER),  to crafting anything spooky.  So he was completely enthused when I bought this face paint for all of us to put on for our Halloween dinner.  Boy was he in heaven!

 I realized while cooking that I had NO IDEA where I had tucked away my black plates bought SPECIFICALLY for this event each year.  I was SO bugged (and even more annoyed when I found them a day too late) and had to settle for the wimpy pumpkin paper plates!

 We had some pumpkin puke

 A little monster potion

 A few bones (they didn't turn out as good as last years), teeth, and mummy dogs

 And of course the beloved brains and eyeballs

 Our zombies don't look to thrilled to be eating this but TRUST me they ate it all up while listening to our added Halloween spooky music (that was the icing on the cake this year)!

Hudson has even learned how to scare and say "ooooooooo" any time he sees something scary like a ghost or monster.  Gotta start them young!

I love Halloween!

The Patch

On Monday, we made our annual trip to the local pumpkin patch.  I love getting some good fall pictures each year.  It's crazy to think we've been doing this for the last SIX years with Boston.  He has seriously grown up SO much from his first year at the patch....time flies!

I pulled my boy's pictures from their first pumpkin patch visits....

Hudson at 10 months

Now:

Hudson continued his pumpkin or "pumpum" attachment and needed to sit and test out quite a few pumpkins.

Bubba at 6 months:

Bubba now

 (he's also decided he wants to grow his hair out hence the NO SPIKES in all the recent pictures...don't know how I feel about it quite yet)

Hudson doesn't mind stopping and saying "CHEEEEEESE" for the camera...most of the time.  He found his pumpkin that he stayed attached to the whole night!  It also appears that daddy rolled his sleeves up WAY too high.

We were also lucky to have these sweet, beautiful triplets tag along with us this year!

Hudson DID NOT want to sit still on my lap for a picture

because he spotted this wagon instead

The boys didn't want to cooperate for a picture with Kent either...

Instead Hudson went back to the wagon

And Boston went back exploring but luckily let me snap a few pictures as he went.

Apparently big bro convinced Hudson to get in for a ride

But then it was time to go and THIS little man was NOT happy about giving up his wagon even if he DID get to keep his pumpkin

While Hudson got mad, Boston decided to model his pumpkin choice for me.

It may have been tough leaving the patch but everyone was content when we hit up Menchie's for some yogurt!  Who doesn't love yogurt (except when they are out of your favorite flavor...)?

Hello 70's

A few weekends ago, one of our good friends hit the big 4-0!  Since he was born in the 70's, his wife thought it would be HILARIOUS (and it was) if we all dressed up in 70's clothes and went to dinner!  I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time!  I found Kent and I matching outfits which made it even better! Sad I don't have a group picture of us all...

 We had a yummy dinner at Taste of Texas where we had MANY stares from people wondering WHAT in the WORLD we were doing dressed up like that.  Chris (the birthday boy) said it was single handily his most EMBARRASSING moment (as he walked in to check on our table all by himself in his BRIGHT GOLD silky shirt and black bell bottoms)!  Oh it was HILARIOUS!  Sarah bought this beautiful cake once we had finished off our meals.  I LOVE it!  I'll have to keep this cake maker in mind for future events!

After dinner, we hit up the bowling alley where we even got asked by people to take their picture with us!  This was seriously, a memorable night! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS!!!

Pumpkin Picking

Boston has been asking to get pumpkins for a few weeks!  He kept asking me to go get some while he was at school and to surprise him when he got home.  I really enjoy going and picking our pumpkins out together as a family and this year I wanted to do something a little different then our usual local (somewhat disappointing) pumpkin patch.  My friends suggested we hit up Dewberry Farms.  I had heard of it but had never gone and after our experience, we will DEFINITELY be going back.  We had a BLAST!!!  There was SO much to do and SO much I didn't get pictures of us doing.  Swinging into the hay was one of Boston's favorites!

 And of course, Hudson never thinks he's too small to do anything!

 I think the boys could have bounced on these pillows for hours if they weren't distracted by wanting to try everything else there!

 Being the "man" that he is, Kent was very interested in shooting the corn with Boston at the targets.

The boys raced around the tracks and Hudson was determined to steer on his own.  Let's just say the grass became his friend.

What's more fun than a tractor pull?

 Kent and I used to do the corn mazes EVERY year before we had kids in Idaho.  It was one of our favorite things in the fall.  This is the first corn maze we went through as a family.

 And we realized after being in it for a bit, that unless we take a short cut out...we could have been in there for awhile...

 Boston raced down these giant slides over and OVER!  At first he was unsure and wanted Hudson and me to ride with him

 But after his first time down he wanted to go on his own.  Let me tell you, carrying a rug up that hill trying to drag a 21 month old behind you was NOT a simple task.

 The little kids area had plenty to entertain the boys too!

 Hudson's ABSOLUTE favorite part was seeing the farm animals.  He kept yelling and smiling the WHOLE time. 

 We waited until the very end to find our pumpkins so we didn't have to load them around with us all day.  We took the wagon ride out to the "patch"

 Attempted a few pictures (which amidst the boys excitement didn't happen...I'll push for good pumpkin patch pictures before October is up),

 And Hudson found it necessary to SIT on every pumpkin he could.  He has a mild obsession with pumpkins.

 We got our pumpkins and headed back to hit the road home but not BEFORE Boston spotted the horses.  He picked the BIGGEST horse (if you knew Boston you would understand his obsession with being BIG) to ride.

 Then he headed back with our four pumpkins in tow (the metal one was a gift) and 2 exhausted boys (and parents).

 At the end of the day, we had two happy, yet dirty boys that needed a MAJOR scrub down!