Happy Halloween!

The kids loved going trick or treating this year. Emma was especially excited, she was running from door to door and leaving all the other kids behind. Chris ended up walking, actually running, with Emma while me and Sarah walked with Ethan, Jack and Jacob. I was told that Emma hit every house. They ended up getting a lot of candy and had a ton of fun!

Carving pumpkins

So we never made it to the pumpkin patch and ended up getting a bunch of pumpkins from my parents! We had lots of fun carving them and the kids chose some designs they wanted to do...well actually they had me do the tracing and cutting. Not so fun but it worked out ok. Jack didn't really care so I just did the classic jack-o-lantern face. He was happy!
Ethan had me do a spider on his pumpkin...not so easy becuase the pumpkins were small.

Emma's was more complicated because she wanted a mummy with some smaller detail...Chris and Jeremiah wanted to be perfectionists and they really did end up looking good.

We took them all ouside and lit them up to see the end result. I must say they look very nice! They always look better when it is dark and the candle inside shows the design.

"Can we go on a picnic?"

We were going to go to the Chili cook off at the church on Saturday but Alana was sick and we didn't want to take her out. Emma had the great idea that we should go on a picnic. That would be awesome except for the fact that it was really cold! So we compromised and had a picnic in the kitchen on the floor. She wanted Taco Bell so that was what we had. We ended up having fun and Chris even made them some cake for desert!

Fun, Fun, Fun

Friday night we took the kids to the Ice cream social at Conneaut school. They had a lot of fun playing games, winning prizes and they even got their faces painted. Jack was too scared to get his face painted, I don't really know why. Emma got a butterfly and Ethan got a snake.

"FORE"

So we took the kids to the driving range over the weekend and they loved it! I wish I would have taken my camera because it was a beautiful day! We plan on going again so there will be picture of them golfing soon!
Emma and Ethan have their own set of golf clubs so they had fun trying out all of them. To my surprise they actually did very well with some instruction from Chris. Jack even had a little putter and was practicing on the green hitting the balls. I helped him swing a driver and he would get so excited every time we hit the ball. I was so worried that we were going to come out of this activity with a missing tooth or someone bleeding from the head but we were accident free! Who knows maybe someday one of the kids will be a pro golfer!! Chris would love that!

Finally Figuring things out!!

Ok so I think that I have finally figured out how to make this page pretty! The reason I have not told people about our blog is because I just have not been able to find time to actually work on it! Well lets hope I can figure out how to keep this updated and put pictures on! That's all for now but I will post more soon...hopefully!!