Fall Fun

We have been doing some Halloween decorating this week. We took a second trip to the pumpkin patch with Chris's family last weekend. Leila and her cousin, Chassidee, had a great time running around Spooner Farms together. This visit was quite different from our first. The patch was muddy, the weather was chilly and it was crowded! But we still loved it!

Leila discovered the ponies in the back of the farm. "Yeeh haw!"

After the patch, we went back to Chris's Aunt Lynn's house for dinner and pumpkin decorating. Chris working on his "Star Wars" logo pumpkin.

Leila and I didn't carve this set of pumpkins. We made "Potato Head Pumpkins". I found the kits at Target. Super fast way to decorate your pumpkin! Just perfect for the attention span of a two-year-old!

Then a few nights later, at home, we decided to make haunted houses.

Leila ate more than she decorated with, I think.

Our haunted houses:

Chris, Leila and Erin

Operation Christmas Child

This weekend, my Mom came up from Portland to watch Chris's fall play. It has become a tradition over the last several years that when she is here for the play, we go shopping for Operation Christmas Child and gather all the supplies we need to pack two boxes. Never heard of Operation Christmas Child? It is a Christian ministry organized by Billy Graham's son and it gives toys and hygiene supplies to children for Christmas. Each child receives a shoe-box sized package stuffed with goodies. This year, Leila really seemed to understand that we were buying for others. She helped Mom and me choose which baby dolls, what color toothbrushes, and which Disney character puzzles along with lots of other important decisions. She had an even better time once we got home and started helping us unwrap packages and begin packing the boxes. There is still time if you would like to pack one too!

Pumpkin Patch

Chris and I had Friday off from work, so we took the extra day to visit Spooner's Pumpkin Patch in Orting. The three of us headed out mid-morning and had perfect pumpkin patch weather! When we walked in, Leila was handed a spider ring, which she quickly named her "Pooky Pider Ring" (spooky is her word of choice lately). She had a blast showing her spider ring to the large hay bail spiders throughout the patch. She was also tickled with the slide and the rope maze (we opted for it instead of the corn maze). We came home with three nice pumpkins for our front porch. Leila's is shaped just like Mr. Potato Head...which is what she is dressing up as this year. What a fun day!

Let's go find our pumpkins...

Checkin' out the scarecrow.

Leila was more interested in her spider ring than smiling for the camera.

How about this one, D?

Our treasures: Chris's is laying on its side, mine is the round one on the left and L's is the tall one on the right.

Loading up the car.

Returning the wheel barrow with Daddy.