Back and Forth

Back at the beginning of October, we had a big birthday bash celebrating Mike, Ed, Judy, and Grandmother- their birthdays (and Anne's) are all within a couple weeks of each other.

My squishy niecey!

 

Fortunately Mike likes our pickled peppers- they're pretty spicy!

Teary Tirzah

Ransom's impersonation of Teary Tirzah? :)

Ok, fast-forward- this is our only picture from our trip to the Canyon with my aunt and uncle- a fossilized coral (we thought it looked like snake or lizard skin!). Still fascinating.

And fast-forward to last night!

 The kids came home from Auntie Grace's and did a little cleaning, and a little dressing up...

then we started the pumpkin gutting/carving!

Peter's ready for battle! Ok, I think paintball helmets are creepy. Seriously.

Berea Monkey with 3 little buns- no more, no less.

Anne dressed up as Aravis (The Horse and His Boy) when she was dressed up as "an upper slave".

Even princesses can get their hands dirty.

Aravis and her horse, Whinn (sp?)

 Not exactly sure how jumping off the couch was allowed- I guess parenting looks different behind a camera. :)

I cannot believe what a young man Elijah looks in the picture- 7 years old in just a couple weeks!

Looking forward to making toasted pumpkin seeds today!

 After pumpkin stuff was dinner! We've somehow started a tradition of having bread bowls- this year filled with chili. The kids also got bottles of pumpkin spice soda for a treat and Christian and I got Sam Adams Harvest Spice Ale in honor of Martin Luther. :)

 Our silly pumpkin face!

Aravis's dress finally dried! It used to be mine (from Africa) when I was 8 or so.

Not pictured, but videoed... after dinner we had a treasure hunt for the kids to find packets of candy wrapped up in tin foil...then we watched a good, old school (pretty sure Catholic) Buttercream Gang movie- The Secret of Treasure Mountain. Fun times. :)