We tried so hard this year to get some good family pictures outside. It seemed like nature was against us. Either it was raining or we had the sun against us. We developed a couple of these, but they didn't turn out so well, but we thought we'd post them anyway. Maybe next year. =)
This year we decided to have the kids carve their own pumpkin. What a mess that turned out to be! They tried carving different types of things on them, but we learned the pumpkins were too small. We ended up having a lot of different jack-o-lantern faces.
Maybe next year we can buy a couple big ones and see what types of things there are to carve on them.
What a beautiful month it was. The weather was mild, warm and mostly dry. I love to see the leaves change colors and start to fall off.
Our family has a fun tradition to go pick out our own pumpkins from a local fruit farm. The kids love to walk through the patches to find just the perfect pumpkin to be made into jack-o-lantern. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful afternoon.
We had a lot of fun and were able to take a lot of cute pictures.
You may ask where is Jake's individual picture? Well that is a long story. A couple of days later, I had my camers sitting out on the counter. When I was busy working on scout stuff, my sweet little Clarissa, who was suppose to be sleeping, got a hold of my camera and in a few minutes deleted all 95 pictures and videos off my camera. Luckily, a friend of mine told me the next day that as long as you don't take anymore pictures you can get them back. Well I didn't even think I could get them back and had to use my camera that evening. Well it turns out that if your camera card is deleted, you can get them all back for FREE!! The only problem I had was that I had already taken about 2 dozen pictures, so Jake's pumpkin pictures were covered over by the new pictures. I was also unable to get back the videos.
So if any of you have sweet little inquisitive children like mine, here is the web site that helped me get my pictures back, http://www.download.com/Art-Plus-Digital-Photo-Recovery/3000-12511_4-10513647.html?tag=mncol;psum . Thanks Jolene for telling me about this!!
Now, we move into the month of October.
Caleb was so excited to go on his 1st field trip. We have a local orchard near the school that allows school groups to come and tour their faciltiy.
They first took Caleb and his class on a long walk out to the orchard where they were able to pick some apples. Then they walked back to the building to learn about the different types of apples and they sampled different kinds. They were then given a tour. During the tour they learned how all the apples are washed, stored and even saw how they turn apples into cider. I think the best part of the field trip was the homemade donuts and apple cider. Yummy!! The day was a great success!
This year we decided to plant a small garden. When I say small, I mean small. Last fall we had to do some repairs around our egress windows so we had to pull out all the lilies that were there. Instead of replanting them, since we have lilies everywhere else, I told Matt we should try our hand at gardening in the Spring.
So this past Spring, we planted some tomato, cucumber, squash and zucchini plants. We have really enjoyed the little bit of produce we got from it. It is so rewarding to pick something that day and have it on the table that evening for dinner. Well we had tomatoes coming out of our ears so after talking to a couple of my friends, I decided to try my hand at canning.
I got out the cookbooks that Mom gave me when I was a little girl and decided to read up on the process. After doing that and receiving positive encouragement from my supportive friends, I decided to go for it. It was easy and a big success! I can't wait for next year so I can do some more tomatoes and maybe I can try my hand at something else.
Look Mom, I did it!!
