Peter Pan and Tinkerbell

 

 

Getting into the spirit:  We bought some lights this year, which Andrew loved... and while playing with the cord, he found them quite shocking!  (He's fine, but I'm hoping he learned his lesson.)

 

Pumpkin carving!  Andrew wanted no part in carving the pumpkins (he has never really been into this part for some reason... which I just don't get considering making a mess and digging is his thing!), but Addison was all about helping Mommy and Daddy.

 

After the initial cleaning of just 2 pumpkins, we only ended up completing 1 of them... we had intention on doing the other, but it molded too quickly!  AND, I never got to light my Tinkerbell pumpkin because it too had mold all inside by the time Halloween hit.  Next year, we will wait until the night before. For the record... I did this one ALL by myself. :)

 

 

 

Halloween Day at School (Superman!)

 

Inspired by our trip to Disney this year, the kiddos dressed as Peter Pan and Tinkerbell for Halloween!  I decided to make their costumes rather than buy something, they turned out okay, but definitely not worth the aggravation.  I think these kids could be in a brown paper bag and look cute though, so consider yourself warned - we took a million pics!

 

 

I got his dagger on Etsy and I LOVE it!

 

 

 

 

Yep! Addison's standing on her own!

 

 

Halloween day, the forecast looked like this:


 

It hasn't rained since April, and it ends up raining on the one day where kids want to be outside!  Luckily, around 5:30pm it stopped raining so we bundled up and headed to the neighbors.  Our neighbors, Abby and Steve had also decided they were doing a Peter Pan theme, because their daughter, Shelby loves Tinkerbell.  They got way more into it though - Abby dressed as Captain Hook, Steve was Smee, and baby Holly was Tiger Lily.  Andrew's favorite part of the night was fighting Captain Hook!  For WEEKS he has been asking us to pretend we're Captain Hook and he gives us various household items to use as our swords.  To have a real Captain Hook with her very own sword was definitely the highlight of the night! 

Tinkerbell Shelby and Peter Pan getting a ride. 
(Andrew got over trick or treating pretty quickly, and Mike had to go back for the wagon.) 

Some extra pics of Addison as a.... dinosaur?  Alligator?  Dragon?  We aren't really sure where this costume came from, but it looked so cute on her, I had to share. 

 

 

Happy Halloween!

 

Pumpkins picking pumpkins

We tried a new "pumpkin patch" this year - Dell'Osso Family Farms - which was complete with a train ride, a tram ride, a hayride and a "Scarecrow" ride... it was a lot of riding around in pretty much the same circles looking at nothing really, but Andrew loved it all!  Well, all of it except the Pumpkin Blasters, where we shot mini pumpkins at the speed of 90 miles per hour at targets... he did NOT like doing that one bit.  The pumpkin patches here are basically fields with pre-picked pumpkins, all looking almost exactly the same, lined up in a dusty field. At least in the past years we had pretty green fields as a backdrop... the drought this year made for dirty kids and bland-ish photos.  And, we didn't even buy a single pumpkin at the first stop!

 

Getting these two to pose is next to impossible.

On the Tram ride...

Andrew waving to the train that goes on the same loop as the tram in the reverse direction.

Waiting in the corn field for our "Scarecrow ride" where we judged scarecrows
created by local schools and girl scout/boy scout troops.

 

 

Andrew freaking out during the Pumpkin shooting...

 

 

Since we didn't buy any pumpkins on Day 1, we headed back to our past "haunt" - Joan's Farm in Livermore. 

Addison was NOT into the pumpkin patch shoot!

Andrew was more interested in seeing how many pumpkins he could fit
into the wagon than on picking out the right pumpkin.

 

 

 

Yee Haw!

That's a lot of cute little pumpkins!