My little Punk'in

Around this time last year, I was 5 months pregnant with my little pumpkin.
Now my pumpkin is a thriving 8 1/2 month old!
I am very lucky blessed!

Mama pumpkin with her baby pumpkin.  Daddy was suppose to be a scarecrow, but he said it was way too hot to put on his flannel shirt and straw hat (such a party pooper)!

We didn't take Matthew trick or treating this year (because we really don't need the extra candy around here).  We stayed home and gave out candy together.  It was fun to see all the kids in their costumes.  Matthew actually wasn't really interested in the costumes at all. He just wanted to eat the candies himself.

My pumpkin needed to refuel 'cause you know it's hard work passing out candy.

I love my little pumpkin and can't wait until next Halloween so we can dress up again.  Now I need to run off to Tar.get to get a good deal on a costume for next year!  (Just trying to plan ahead and SAVE $$).

Halloween Weekend Round Up

I got to meet my new niece on Friday. 

Jessica Nicole was born on Thursday, Oct. 27th, weighing 8 lbs 7 oz. 

She is absolutely precious!  This is my sister's 5th kid (under 6 yrs old).

I still can't believe we got snow on Saturday! Two days before Halloween!



We got most of the snow, but everyone else got rain.

That didn't stop us from trunk or treating at my friend's church.

It's been a busy month and I'm looking forward to slower weekends so I can start getting things around the house!  Christmas will be here before you know it!

What to do with a 50 lb Pumpkin?

Carve it and put your "pumpkin" in it!!

I finally made something off Pinterest!

Of all the stuff I've 'pinned', this is the easiest to make!
(more like assemble together)

Who doesn't love s'mores??!



Source from Pinterest

One Pin down, tons more to go!

Halloween Weekend

Work has been keeping me super busy so I haven't had time to blog. I'm hoping things will slow down, but it doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon.

Other than a busy work schedule, everything else is going well.  Baby is good, life is good.

We managed to go to the pumpkin patch the day before Halloween.  I was trying to find a pumpkin patch that was reasonably priced that had fun activities for Abbey.  There is a huge one in the area that costs $15 a person on the weekends!  I did NOT want to spend that much money, but Steve convinced me to (it's easier on my conscious to blame the hubby). So much for reasonably priced!

 It actually really was HUGE and did have lots for Abbey to do.  I'm glad we went this year. 

Who knows if the price will go up next year!

After the pumpkin patch, we went to my friend's trunk or treat at church.  It was chilly, but the kids had fun going from trunk to trunk getting candy.

(A unicorn, witch, dragon and spider man) 

I ran into my dear friend Mindy there!  We go way back from when her family served in the Dulles Branch.  I was so excited to see her.  Her family is so awesome! 

Eating chili in the church parking lot before the trunk or treating began!

Nothing beats chili on a chilly night!

Me and my sister on Halloween at a family gathering.

So that was pretty much our Halloween weekend.

This past weekend was very low key.  After a busy October, Steve is happy that all the fall activities are over.  We will be starting on the nursery soon! More to come on that.

Pumpkin Patch and Halloween

We finally made it to the pumpkin patch last Friday. Steve and I were able to take off work early to go see Abbey's Halloween parade at school.  Afterwards, we took her to the pumpkin patch.  It was nice because it wasn't crazy busy so Abbey didn't have to wait in line for any of the moon bounces/slides. 

I love the expression on her face!

More funny faces on the hayride.

Petting the animals with uncle Steve.

(yeah, we weren't a big fan of the smell)

We all got a free pumpkin!

Moving on to Halloween pictures....

Abbey wanted to be Tinkerbell again this year. So we recycled her costume from last year and here she is...

Steve took Abbey trick or treating and I stayed home to pass out candy.  I got to see all the cute little (and big) kids in their costumes and of course, the babies in costumes too.  They were all so adorable!!