Pumpkin Carving

We had tons of fun digging into pumpkins this year. My mom always hosts such a fun pumpkin carving party and she did it again this year. We kick off the evening with a very yummy meal and follow it with getting creative with our pumpkins. We thought it would be fun to get Jacob a pumpkin this year as well, however, that just meant that Mommy and Daddy had to carve three instead of two. Silly us! We also got to have hot spiced cider and bob for apples. To finish it off we all displayed our pumpkins on the porch and stood amazed at our creativity as we lit the candles.

Jacob's scary face

Ewwww gross

What's in the Daddy?

All lit up

Pumpkins

This past weekend we went out to Maris farms with the whole family to pick out which pumpkins would be lovingly carved into beautiful masterpieces. Jacob was his usually happy self and it was fun to place him in the wheelbarrow and navigate him around the pumpkin patch. Along with getting pumpkins we also enjoyed their mine shaft slide, yummy roasted corn and great corn maze which my brothers loved running ahead and getting lost in. What a blast the fall can be and thank you God for such an amazing place we live in to enjoy all the seasons.

Mommy's little pumpkin

Oh how I love my Dad!

Jacob loves Granddad as well

My amazing great big family

Our coffee lover

This is a very late post but Jacob was given a minature starbucks apron from a good friend of mine Candy Spradling and we took him to one of the stores and took a few pics. Unfortuneately they wouldn't let us take a picture of him by the counter. Thanks so much for the fun apron Candy! These pictures were taken this past June.

Aunt Julie visits

Mike's sister Julie was able to come up for a couple of weeks and stay with us over the weekend. This was her first trip up to Washington since Mike and my wedding and it was so much fun to be able to relax with her and show her around Gig Harbor. Jacob also loved having Aunt JuJu up because he knew that he could get anything he wanted whenever he wanted it with is aunt being here. Julie we had so much fun with you and I'm looking forward to seeing you over Thanksgiving. Thank you for staying with us.

So happy to see Aunt JuJu

Downtown Gig Harbor with Cliff and Dana