Can you believe it is November? These first few days have met me with exhaustion, detoxing off of the last month of extreme busyness. I know Josiah must be feeling it too, he slept in until 9:30 this morning after taking a 3 1/2 hour nap yesterday. Needless to say we've been taking it easy and are regrouping ourselves.
October was a very busy month for us! Between Josiah's birthday and all the Harvest/Halloween activities we were going at full speed and then some. This is my personal favorite time of year and often the last chance to get outside before the weather changes and we took full advantage of it! I mean, who doesn't love going to the pumpkin patch twenty times? Okay, maybe not twenty, just two.
Because there was so much that went on I will use this to highlight the holiday festivities. You can check out the entry devoted to Josiah's 3rd Birthday from earlier in the week.
Baggenstos Farms
Sherwood, OR
This was our first trip to the pumpkin patch. We joined Auntie Jenny and cousins Emery & Luelle. This is also where Auntie Jenny tooks Josiah's 3 year pics!
The Pumpkin Patch
Sauvie Island
We went to another pumpkin patch with lots of our friends for a full day!!
Josiah, Mia & Cousin Zoey
May, Mia & Josiah on a mission!
Kindred Spirits!
Josiah LOVES his baby cousin!
An attempt at a group shot...yeah.
Mommy & Son
Storytime & Boo Bash
We spent the Wednesday morning before Halloween at the library (in the mall) at storytime and then the afternoon trick-or-treating downtown Camas at the "Boo Bash".
Partial group shot after storytime.
Josiah & Emery riding in style!
At the Boo Bash with friends Mia & Eli
Dairy Queen was handing out free cones...yummy!
Harvest Party
The Well Community Church
We went to the the Harvest Party at our church for the third straight year. They had this the Friday before Halloween and we had some of our good friends join us.
Taken at the photo booth.
(Nate couldn't join us...it was Poker Night @ Red Rocket!)
May, Mia & Siah
Attempting to eat a doughnut hung from a string.
Bowling with "Miss Mandi".
"Fishing" for a prize.
"What do you feel?"
Lifelong Friends!
Mikayla, Josiah & Mia
Halloween Party
Grandpa & Nana's House
Grandpa & Nana have a Halloween party every year (the night before this year). They always have a "theme" but I don't require Josiah to dress up specifically for their theme, honestly he has no clue who Julius Caesar is. Josiah was kind of burnt out on his fireman's costume because he had been wearing it for three weeks straight between his birthday and Halloween so he decided to take a break and wear his Ducks football jersey (he found the hat in Nana's play room).
Go Ducks!!
Halloween...finally!
At Cousin Emery & Luelle's House
This was the 2nd annual trick-or-treating extravaganza at cousins Emery & Luelle's house. All of their cousins from both sides come early and eat pizza and good snacks before heading out. This neighborhood is the perfect neighborhood for trick-or-treating and it didn't disappoint again this year. Heck, a full sized candy bar even found its way into the buckets this year.
Group shot before heading out!
"Trick or Treat"
The boys, especially Emery, were enamored by this dancing/singing skeleton.
All of a sudden Emery is dancing and singing "Super Freak" with the skeleton...it was priceless!
"This is FUN!"
These two could have gone all night. Everyone loved their costumes and instead of putting a piece of candy in their buckets, they were putting handfuls!!
See that Thomas the Train bucket? It was full to the top!!!
I don't know why I found it necessary to take a picture of this. After Josiah went to bed I dumped it all out his bucket and there it was, a big pile of candy!
(He'd forgotten about the candy by morning and hasn't asked for it BUT daddy found the stash!)
