Carving pumpkins and Halloween

The girls chose to use patterns to carve their pumpkins this year. They spent a lot of time on them, but they turned out awesome.
Big A really had to dig deep to get all the seeds out.

This was the first time using any kind of pattern. It was interesting and time consuming, but the girls had a good time and the pumpkins turned out good, so it was worth it.

Here the girls are with their pumpkins.

Semi-glowing pumpkins.

We made some Halloween food this year. We kept it pretty simple. Mummy dogs and jack-o-lantern fruit.

We had an Angel, A witch and her black cat this year. And a few friends as well.

Denver Museum

The day that we planned to go to the Denver Mint (where they make the coins) and the Denver museum, little C had gotten sick over night and had to stay home with KP. They told us to go ahead and have some fun without them. It was sad though because we planned this trip to the museum because it has a cool planetarium in it and little C is really into space right now and would have loved it. Here is some pictures of the day.
Allison has the whole world in her hands...

Brooke is trying to dock the space shuttle. It was much harder than it looked.

The Denver skyline behind us.

Brooke found some Big Horn sheep.

Then they wondered what they would look like with antlers...

Then we happened upon some dinosaurs..

Watch out for saber toothed tigers..

We couldn't get pictures inside the Denver Mint (security reasons), but it is a good place to go if you are ever in the Denver area. We actually got to see some gold bars which they store there at the mint.

Fall Break in Colorado

We drove to Colorado for Fall Break. The girls survived the two day trip in the car. They have always been good travelers. We are fortunate to have both KP's parents and my mom within 15 minutes of each other.So we divided our time between them and family that also live close by. We did a lot of things and couldn't put them all on here, but here is a glimpse of what we did.

Little C couldn't get enough of picking the apples off the apple trees at both grandparents houses.

We drove up to Estes Park and looked in (and bought in) the shops there. We couldn't have asked for better weather while we were in Colorado.

The girls had fun on Grandpa's tractor. Big A usually drove, the others enjoyed the ride.

We went to a fun pumpkin patch that my sister recommended in Broomfield.

We are ready to go cut our pumpkins from the vine!!

Little C found her pumpkin first. She didn't take too much time.

Beautiful B took a little longer to find the perfect pumpkin.

And Big A took the longest time looking for "The Great Pumpkin" but she found it! It was so heavy that she almost dropped it when she picked it up.

Goofing off with my brother and sister.

My little pumpkins..

More painting picture fun..

KP was showing off some hill billy looks.

They had some inflatable slides and jump houses there that the girls enjoyed.

Beautiful scenery to take pictures.

The girls enjoyed playing with their cousins.

We have a large family and when we gather round it is always a good time!

A few things before Fall Break

Little C had a fall party in her class before the two week break this year. I helped with the cookie decorating station, so I didn't get many good pictures of little C doing the other stations, but she had a good time.

The school also had an awards assembly that day. Middle B got to emcee part of it as a duty for student council. She ended up winning an award herself. Here is a picture of her handing off the microphone after her part. I videoed her part so I don't have any pictures of her doing it.

She also won the GAB award which stands for "Going Above and Beyond". We are very proud of how hard she works in school.