Halloween wrapup

Happy Halloween! The boys got all dressed up tonight and hit the town. Andy was the only Iron Man we saw running around and everybody thought he look really cute. Jake's costume came out pretty good and he even ended up scaring a couple of his friends.

Pumpkin carving

We have a love hate relationship with pumpkin carving. We love the idea of picking out our pumpkins, we love picking out our pumpkin design, and we even love the idea of carving our pumpkins. Each year we try to involve the kids. This was Andy's first year of actually being allowed to be awake while we carved... his contribution in the past was sleeping. Well, while he didn't help per say, he did take great joy stabbing the tops of the pumpkins with the little saw. Jake did his very best to clean out his pumpkin, but really when all was said and done he ended up watching Andy while Steve and I cleaned and carved. And four pumpkins later, we loathe pumpkin carving and we're glad that it's over. Steve's got a sore forearm from cleaning the insides and I've got friction burn between my thumb and finger from the saw. Alas, it's done and we have the evidence to prove it.

Another year, another set of pumpkins.

Us staying in touch with you

We are horrendous with staying in touch with everyone. This is our attempt to stay in touch with you to stay in touch with us... see where this is going. :)

I can't believe we are in the final stretch of 2008 and I can't tell you what we did the first three quarters of the year. I can tell you we have some fun stuff coming up that makes this our favorite time of the year. Starting with Halloween. We went to the pumpkin patch a couple of weeks ago with our good friends, the Blankenship's. And we are gearing up for Halloween. Andy is going to be Iron Man while Jake is venturing out of doing cartoon characters and is going to be a scary clown.

More to come later...