Halloween: Part 1

 Every year I have ideas for Halloween but as it gets closer I realize I don't want to spend the time or money on our costumes that we will wear for 1 night. Max loves to dress up and I knew the boys were going to want to start picking their own costumes soon so I decided in May that we were going to do  Mary Poppins theme. It would be so simple because they could wear clothes they already had. We got the movie from the library and it turned out that both my boys loved it! They were already familiar with most of the music but we have been singing it constantly for months. So we really hyped it up about how they were going to be chimney sweeps for Halloween. They were completely excited about it. Anyway, we finally made it happen and we of course had to take a million photos!

The Friday before Halloween we had a church party. We had grand intentions of going to a roof top for photos but by the time we were all costumed up, and Max found his hat that Charlie lost. The light was fading and it was almost time to go to the party. (Don't worry, we still got our rooftop photos...just wait for part 2) So these are from our yard.

Luckily. there is an outdoor fireplace on one of the houses we manage so we had a lot of fun with that!

 

And the light was fading quick...but the graininess adds to the effect right?

 We made our way to our church Halloween party and had a blast. I didn't take many photos but we did win a prize for the family costume award and Charlie was so excited that he said he wants to be a chimney sweep every year...I just told him, he needs to trust me when I pick out his costumes!

Stay tuned for many more Halloween rooftop photos...

Pumpkin Patch

I got to attend the Lee Farms Pumpkin patch with Charlie as part of his preschool field trip. I haven't been to this farm in years but it is always a popular one for field trips. I'm the official photographer for Charlie's class, so I was taking photos of everyone, I'm just mostly including the photos of Charlie. We got there a little bit early and played around while waiting for the rest of his class and the younger class.

 Once his whole class was there, we made our way to see the animals. We saw rabbits, cows, a donkey, horses, dogs, chicks, turkeys, chickens, goats, pigs, and itty bitty baby piglets. Somehow, very few of those animals actually got in photos.

One of Charlie's favorite parts was feeding the calves!

They also got to see how cider was made and then try a cup.
 And then go into another barn to check out all the types of pumpkins they have at the farm.

They all got to go through the small haymaze that ended in this slide.

We then got to walk through the corn fields and pick out a pumpkin. The pickings were slim which was strange since they had so many glorious pumpkins in other parts of the farm. We each got a small green pumpkin and boarded the hayride to go back to the main part of the farm.

 

And this is Charlie's class and the younger class.

After most of the kids left, Charlie and I lingered a little longer to play on the tractor. We then went to the store to get some cider and warm pumpkin donuts. Which we took home to share with Max and Miles. Miles was certainly excited when he woke up from a nap and got a doughnut as a snack!!

It was a fun time that I was glad I got to have with Charlie. We had intentions of going as a family but it just didn't work out and Miles (and Max) were gypped out of a pumpkin patch trip this year. We all had pumpkins though and 2 of them were our first successful pumpkins we grew in our garden. So that's pretty exciting.