Fall Family Fun

We have kept ourselves very busy lately with different fall activities!

This was at Family Night at the pumpkin patch at Carter's school.

The kids enjoyed the bounce house the most, and picking out a pumpkin to take home and carve.

On the hunt for the perfect pumpkin.

  Daddy carving our pumpkin the next night

"Whoa!"

Looks pretty good to me!

Enamored with our glowing jack-o-lantern

The kids dressed up in their costumes and enjoyed playing games at our neighborhood fall festival.

And we also enjoyed fall festival at our church..... 

games, hayrides, live music, and best of all, trunk or treating!

This car was the cutest decorated as the house and the characters from the movie Up (complete with a bundle of balloons!). This was my favorite, but there were so many fun and creative trunks. It was so much fun walking around looking at them all, and letting the kids do some trick or treating!

Carter and Carson

 The kids enjoyed painting and decorating pumpkins at a MOPS playdate last week, too.

As I said, we've kept so busy with all these fun activities, even with some illness going around our house. Hey, it wouldn't be fall without some yucky stuff creeping its way in, right? Unfortunately, I caught strep last weekend and spent the entire weekend nursing myself back to health. I did quarantine myself well enough those few days, though, that I managed not to pass it onto anyone else in our family, luckily. But then, the first day I started feeling myself again, I was attacked by horrible sinus/allergy problems. And everyone else was not lucky enough to escape those...... all 4 of us suffered from that in the last week. It's been a symphony of sneezing, nose-blowing, coughing, and some really hoarse voices around here! And, as if that wasn't enough, I was the lucky one who caught a stomach bug yesterday. So far though, no one else has shown any symptoms of that at all, and I think I can finally say that we are all on the mend, and hopefully we'll all be 100% this coming week. Eric has been amazing the last 9 or 10 days while all this has been going on. He's single-parented many of the last several days, and I cannot say how much I appreciate that man and what he does for all of us. All the time, of course, but especially when I'm out of commission. I hit the lottery with that one. :)

Looking forward to a fun Halloween, and hopefully a healthy November!