Baby Shiloh - 3 months old

Pumpkin Party!

Last night we decided it was finally time to carve the pumpkins that had been sitting on the porch since our Pumpkin Patch Adventure a couple of weeks ago. It was so much fun! We drew out the designs we wanted to do on paper first, then sketched them onto our pumpkins. After that, we hollowed them out and got to carving. Then, when we were all finished, we roasted the pumpkin seeds and had a delicious bedtime snack! I love fall!

Here are a few pictures from our evening of pumpkin carving fun:









Autumn wanted her pumpkin to look like a cat. I helped her a little with sketching it out, but she carved almost all of it all by herself! She was very proud!

Bear had a little more help... He drew out his vampire pumpkin idea, but I did most of the actual carving. It was his idea to add the fake blood to the fangs! : )

This tiny teeny mini jack-o-lantern is Shiloh's. So cute!

The big pumpkin that was supposed to be Jason's ended up getting kind of smooshy and disgusting on the porch before we got around to carving it, so we decided to share!

This one is Norah's. I don't know if you can tell, but the stuff on the top is supposed to be her crazy hair!

And a pumpkin family portrait...



Now I am off to come up with some sort of last-minute makeshift costumes for the little bits, and also hopefully to take a few pictures of Shiloh at the studio at some point today. He is 3 months old now, believe it or not, and long overdue for some new photographs!

Awesomeness.

Somehow Autumn had no trouble whatsoever getting into character for Nerd Day at cheerleading.

Pumpkin Patch, Round 2!

Well, like I said, the following weekend we decided to take the whole crew out to McGarrah Farms for some pumpkiny fun. Mom and Dad were back in Mena, and Jason had a wedding to shoot, but Jamie and I decided that surely we could handle it, so after an eventful morning involving sleepovers and football games, we loaded up all the kids and headed out into the boondocks towards the pumpkin farm. We got there and very quickly realized that the pumpkin patch is a lot of work! Especially when you go there with a pregnant lady, a newborn, a 2-year-old and 2 very adventurous big kids.

We managed to make it through the corn maze unscathed, although Bear was scared to death (and I don't much blame him), and we even managed to pick the pumpkins for our Jack-O-Lanterns and cart them back to the front all by ourselves. Let me tell you, though, we were really missing Papa for this part! : ) I even managed to pick a pumpkin and carry it back to the wagon while nursing the baby, which was no small feat. Looking back at the pictures, I can see that this is probably not normal behavior, but somehow, for us, it was just another day in the pumpkin fields!

Here are some pictures from our afternoon adventure! The first one is of Jamie at 14 weeks pregnant... She was just barely starting to have a little roundness then, and she is 16 weeks now, and really starting to pop out there! She even gets to find out if it is a girl or a boy on Saturday! I can't wait!!! Oh, sorry, back to the pictures. : )

Pumpkin Patch, Round 1!

This year we ended up making not one, but TWO trips to McGarrah Farms for back to back weekends of pumpkin patch adventure! The first weekend, Jason, Norah, Shiloh and I headed out there with Garner and Papa. We picked pumpkins for our fall porch display and ended up having so much fun that we made plans to return the following weekend so the big kids could join in on the fun as well! Here are some snapshots from the first weekend we went, on Oct. 2.


















Pumpkin Patch, Round 2 pictures to follow directly!