Aidan picked out the pumpkin and I carved it. This was our 3rd pumpkin for the season and Aidan is currently at his 4th Halloween party. I finally have an excuse to get all giddy about the holidays - or rather, someone to blame it all on :)
I tried canning for the first time with our apples! I did some spiced apple rings and apple caramel butter. The butter is awesome! I hope to try the apple rings on Halloween in some cider...mmm....
Boys helping me wash the apples.
Lots and lots...and lots of apples....
Jeff took a poor little boy's shark head. Maybe I should let him be a shark next year.
I came out of the kitchen to see this...I love it!
This is my cheese ball. Fresh from the bath.
And cheeseball #2 holding Harry. I mean..uh.....
Aidan refuses to touch the inside of a pumpkin! When he wants to carve pumpkins it usually means "lets watch mommy carve and scrape out pumpkins". Fine with me! I love it!
When mom came up last week she bought a couple pumpkins for the boys so we could have some jack-o-lanterns.
Bob. Such a weirdo!
Well I found a super easy dish online that Jeff is obsessed with. That doesn't happen often. We had it 4 nights in 1 week if that tells you anything. So I thought I'd post the recipe if anyone wanted to try it.
We decided to have a little halloween party last night. It was loads of fun! (but I think we need a big party house next time we buy)
Firs I must state that I find it totally unfair that Jeff fits into his skinny jeans and I don't even own skinny jeans anymore. :( Second - how hot is he?!?!!? Good heavens...
I couldn't really get a picture of the kids because they were so pumped up on sugar and running around and - to be honest - I avoided Aidan's room where they were all playing like the plague. I didn't want to see the destruction.
I looked hot. Admit it. I had a good unibrow going on that you can't see and I stuffed my bum. Aidan was afraid of my makeup so he wouldn't really come too close to me. Thats Jen in the Supergirl costume! It was awesome. Todd was pretending to be horrified...
We have an ugly, old apple tree in our backyard. We never bothered trying to pick any apples because they would all fall off or have worm holes all over them. Jeff pruned the tree last year and we got a ton of apples this year! We went outside to clean up toys and grabbed a couple apples for Bob and we ended up picking apples for 45 minutes! We still have 1/2 the tree to pick. We had a lot of fun too!
Aidan and Harry loved climbing the ladder to reach the high ones.
Jeff found the perfect apple! 
Here was my best apple I picked.
Today's pickin's! We still have double that on the tree waiting for us. Time to learn how to can! :)
Seemed much easier to find small pumpkins and let them paint them. Maybe more messy, but definitely easier!
Thats pretty much Harry's complete pumpkin. Aidan made his a ghost pumpkin.
