Trick or Treat

On Halloween our neighbors invited us to go trick or treating with them.  They have a little girl who is almost exactly Bailey's age so they all had a lot of fun together. 

Pumpkin Carving

We thought this fall we would try pumpkin carving with the girls.  As you can see by their faces, they weren't fans of the inside of the pumpkin at first.

Ryan had a hard time cutting out the face.  We just used a regular knife and we later learned that you can use special tools to make it easier.  I guess we'll try that next year.  I didn't take a picture of it but the girls were so excited when we put a candle in it once it got dark.

Fall Festival

The weekend before Halloween the church we have been going to had its fall festival.  We didn't know what to expect since this was our first fall festival in Birmingham but it was a lot of fun.  It was definitely very crowded but the girls were happy (mostly).

The girls did the cake walk at least 10 times around.  After a little while Ryan and I jumped in to try to increase our chances and we never won.  Emma Catherine really wanted to keep going but we had to convince her that she was missing all the other fun stuff.

Pumpkin Patch part 2

While we were in Florida, we went to a pumpkin there also.  It had similar activities to the pumpkin patch we went to in Alabama, but we still had a good time. 

Florida

Last week, Ryan was traveling in Texas so the girls and I went to Florida to visit my family and to celebrate my mom's bday.

We had a great week while we were in Florida.  It seems that usually when we are in Florida there is so much to do that we run ourselves ragged.  This trip was much more low-key and relaxed.  We enjoyed spending time with my family and seeing a few friends and celebrating my mom's birthday.

Pumpkin Patch

While my mom was here, my sister came into town for the weekend also and we went to a local pumpkin patch.  It was great weather and we had a really good time. 

Field Trip

My mom flew into town a couple of weeks ago for a long weekend.  After she landed we immediately went to Emma Catherine's filed trip to the pumpkin patch.  It was a very small pumpkin patch but it was good to see the kids in Emma Catherine's class and she was so excited to have her Mia there.