We had a fun halloween, complete with trick or treating downtown at all of the stores (unless your a teenager whose too cool for that and you stay in the car) followed by a "Harvest Party" at church complete with crock pot soup potluck, game stations, pie eating contest and lots of candy. Here is how the dress up went down, Dad-Mohawk Punk Rocker, Mom- Baby, Isaiah-Soccer player, Annecy-Zebra, Kenya-Queen Esther, Elijah-Football player

 

 We grew our own little pumpkin patch this year and got 12 huge, waiting to be carved Jack-o-lanterns.  We had a few friends over and here is the end result.  Amazing!!!  Tadd and Isaiah (anti-slime guys) even gritted their teeth and cleaned out their own.

We took a trip to Dusty's Nursery, for a scavenger hunt through the corn maze, then a mix of crazy and cute pictures.

 

 We spent the Thanksgiving day serving lunch at the food bank. Then over to friends for dinner, But
we spent the day after Thanksgiving, sleeping in till lunch time and then waking up ready to deck the house with all the Christmas decorations we could muster.  We started the day off with Santa Claus pancakes, putting up the tree, all while never leaving the comfort of our cozy PJ's.

I love family, do nothing days!  Looking forward to more to come with the holidays around the corner.

The rest of vacation

I promised more vacation pictutes, so here is the last of them.

 

When we got to the condo, we had to do first things first!  Get swim suits on, fill the jet tub with bubbles and see how high you can get them.

 The thing about thrift shopping is that you don't always find a treasure, so you make the best of it by finding the weirdest thing and putting it on.

While hiking to a waterfall we found this hollow tree stump and the kids (of course) needed a picture in it.  We took a nice one and the one they really wanted to take.

 We finally got to the waterfall and it was so worth it.

 We got a chance to go to crater lake, the day before it snowed to much they did not recommend anyone going.

Right outside our condo every morning, deer would gather and wait to be feed.  The kids had so much fun feeding them out of their hands.

We had so much fun and can't wait a whole year to do it again. Did I mention I love my family!