Annual Halloween Pumpkin Carving 2012

This year we got together with our neighbors, the Horton's, to carve our pumpkins.  As you know I absolutely despise carving pumpkins but I do it for fun family memories and I have to admit that they do look cool all lit up. 

 

 

 

 

These are our family's pumpkins.  Notice the one pumpkin that is not carved?  Shelby was at her friend's house so her pumpkin was the only one not carved.  Adds something to it, don't you think?  The one next to Shelby's is mine.  They were skulls but it's hard to see.  Then there's Kaylee's, Carson's, Austin's and Curt's.

 

 

These are all the pumpkins, friends and family.  Makes for a nice Halloween atmosphere!

 

 

This is Curt's.

 

 

 This is Austin's that Curt helped on.

 

 

This is Carson's.

 

This is Kaylee's

 

 

Once again, this is Shelby's.  I like it in the dark!

 

Hahahaha.

 

This is mine.  I think it looks better all lit up.

 

Annual Halloween Party at Grandma and Grandpa Nye's

This is the annual Halloween Family Party at Curt's mom and dad's house.  It's usually the Sunday before Halloween.  It's always so much fun.  We joke that if you look in this picture below that Curt and I are the only adults that dressed up...but everybody has to admit that I won the costume contest this year!  Heck yeah...my costume's the best!!!

 

Shelby did the Witch's Brew this year.  Usually it's Curt's sister, Katie.  She passed it on and Shelby graciously did it.

 

Austin hitting the pinata.  Tre broke it again this year.

 

 

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for all the fun things you put together for the family.  You are loved!!!

Carson's First Pinewood Derby

On October 20th was Carson's first-ever Pinewood Derby.  He was so excited.  So was Curt.  They worked on the car for a couple of weeks and Curt even took Carson to his work to help sand it and paint it.  Carson had a great time there seeing where his dad worked. 

 

The big day came and this was the track they were racing on.

 

Carson's car is in the number 4 slot.  It has a dragon head on it.

 

Here he is waiting at the end to see how his car does.

 

Curt and I volunteered to help with the awards.  Curt made the trophies and I made the treat cars that everybody got who participated.  It was fun to help.

 

Carson's car did very well.  In the finals he won most of the races and came in second place.  He was so excited.  Here he is holding his certificate, trophy and car with a BIG smile on his face.

 

The guy who had the track loves Pinewood Derby and had made a LOT of cars.  This was one of Curt's favorite's.  It's very aerodynamic and the wheels are very skinny to help against friction to make it go faster. 

 

Austin's 4th Birthday!

October 23rd is Austin's birthday and this year he turned the big 4 years old.  He is always so excited for his birthday.  He got lots of stuff this year.  He got a big boy's bed earlier so he got some new sheets (Angry Birds, which he loves), some Hot Wheels stuff, stuff for school, new "scriptures", of course clothes and the best of all was Legos.  This has entertained him for hours although I have to admit it's a big mess but worth it.  Happy birthday buddy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Austin's Fire Department Field Trip

On October 17th, 2012 Austin got to go to the Fire Department for his pre-school field trip.  The day before they had talked about stop, drop and roll and different fire safety tips.  That's why he's wearing his "fire helmet".  Doesn't he look cute?  They got to talk to the firemen and his teacher dressed up in their gear so they could understand that firemen aren't scary.  They also got to get into the ambulances and fire trucks to see what they look like on the inside.  He had so much fun and now whenever he sees a fire truck he says, "That's my fire truck," since he got to get in them.

 

Funny Austin

This is one of my favorite pictures of Austin.  Grandma Nye took it when she was watching him while I was at my girls' weekend and Curt had the other kids four-wheeling.  He had a great time with Grandma and now we all have a little momento of that night.  Thanks Grandma!!!

 

Austin's Farm Field Trip

So in October Austin's pre-school went to Black Island Farms for a field trip.  We love this field trip because they take the kids on a tractor ride and the kids get to pick a pumpkin and they teach them about the produce that they grow.  Then we get to play on all the fun slides and things that they have there.  Here is Austin and his two buddies Will and Colton.  It was so much fun and we had a blast.

 

 

 

Austin and the Giant Peach!

So due to a late frost in the spring we lost a lot of our peach blossoms on our peach trees.  So because of this the peaches that did make it were HUGE.  Here is an example of what kind of peaches we had this year.  I didn't want to can ANY of them since we had a TON last year so we just cut them up and froze them for smoothies and peach crisp, etc.  I was just amazed at how big they were.