The month of October... recap...

As I upload pictures from the camera I'm realizing that I did not tell you ANY of the FUN things we did in October. Somehow I got bogged down in decorating, eschewing the virtues of tomatoes, and stitches. But here are a few pictures. The weekend we went to get Nora some stitches... we were actually visiting Mike's brother and his family. Every year we go up to a great pumpkin patch, then hang out at their house for chili and celebrating Andrew's birthday. It's always fun... and the weather is always the wild card! One year it was SUPER hot and we all wore shorts... one year it was CRAZY windy... and this year it rained on us and sent us scurrying for home (luckily, with our pumpkins already purchased).

Highlights are (depending on who you are)...

...the HUGE variety of pumpkins and other gourd monstrosities to choose from!

...a plethora of cute baby animals to hold and cuddle...

...climbing hay bales...

...jumping hay bales...

...racing your uncle on hay bales... (this is agricultural country after all)...

...and we all enjoy hanging with family...

After the trip to the pumpkin patch we came home and proceeded to get ready for Halloween... Phoebe was a spider...

And Nora was a witch... (a neon orange witch without her hat... but that's Nora... she'll take something and make it her very own!). Notice Phoebe's black hair and Nora's orange hair. Please take extra special note as we will NEVER be doing that again. The baths following these costumes took TWO hours and many tears (at least three of us cried... not really, but almost) to get that sh*t out.


And... as per usual Mike and I dug out old costumes to go with them (actually, my mom did too... but she took this picture for us so she isn't shown here).

We all went into Santa Cruz for a little daytime trick-or-treating...

...and to see other people's costumes!

...and of course, we take breaks to sample the afternoon's effort... and to let me take pictures!

Hope you guys had as great an October as we did!