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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

October Fest-ivities

...we made our now traditional family trip to the Corn Maze:

Our fearless leader!

Gabe has no time for a family picture, he's seen the exit!

These two are so cute I can hardly stand it!
Don't we all look strangely happy about getting lost in a bunch of corn?


The farm we went to also had a Trike Track with various John Deere trikes and bikes for the "kids" to ride on.

...and this year we got our pumpkins from Grandma and Grandpa's pumpkin farm!  My parents put a pumpkin patch in their lower backyard and got something like 20 pumpkins from it! 

Searching for the perfect pumpkin

Found it!


Gabe picking out Bret's pumpkin - doesn't it look like he's laughing because "Daddy's pumpkin is smaller than mine!" ?

We picked the white pumpkins for mine & Abby's

...and for Halloween, Gabe was a very unhappy elephant.  He did NOT want to wear his costume and whined the whole time I was getting him dressed and ready to go trick-or-treating with Bret.  Abby and I stayed home to pass out candy, and I was attempting to get a few pictures of her in her ballerina skirt when she decided to have a major diaper blowout all over herself and me.  Talk about an eventful evening! 


This is from the day we bought the costume and were trying it on to make sure it fit.  Gabe had the most dramatic slumped over posed the whole time I was trying to get a picture...apparently the idea of having to dress up to get candy is very emotionally taxing for a toddler.

But, of course, once he was back home in his sweats and looking at a pile of candy, all was once again right with the world!
Abby in her skirt when I bought it - didn't get any good pictures on  Halloween.


1 comment:

Rachel said...

GA was a puppy for Halloween (kinda like Gabe's last year). I was so worried that he would freak out when I dressed him in it on the big day that we "practiced" wearing it around the house the two days before. It worked! He even kept the mitten-paws on!