Pre-Halloween

There is always so much going on a around Halloween.  Sometimes I think there are more activities than Christmas.  Rhone and I visited Fall Fest with our neighbors.  Rhone and Aiden had lots of fun running from one thing to the next.  Rhone really loved the big slide.  He figured out that he went faster if he slid on his tummy.  We also went to our church Harvest Party.  Of course, Rhone wouldn't dress up again- so I didn't get too many pictures there, but he did love the hay ride.  Rhone and I spent Sat night with our friends and then at the Halloween carnival on base.  Since Ben was gone, we invited some of our friends over whose dad is deployed to carve pumpkins with us.  We made little personal "monster" pizza's with olive eyes and red pepper mouths.  We also decorated cookies and carved pumpkins.  Rhone was not interested in gutting the pumpkin, but he sure did love that little safety knife.

Rhone on the big slide

He is looking so grown up here.

Using his "map" to navigate the corn maze

Wagon ride with mom

Picking an apple from the orchard with Aiden

The boys decorating their pumpkin cookies.

This is his "cheese" face

These 3 kiddos spent a lot of time carving tiny "moles" on our jack-o-lantern.  They shared so well.

The hay ride at our church activity was a real Amish wagon pulled by horses.