Getting Ready for Halloween

 We have been doing Halloween activities recently.  Harper and I made gingerdead cookies last weekend.  They were spooky and delicious!  We took a bike ride through our local cemetery which is beautiful in the fall.  On Thursday night, we carved our pumpkins.  We are all ready for Halloween now!

   

Skeleton Gingerdead Cookie

  

    

Elmwood Cemetery 

   

   

   

  

Sleepy Boos fell asleep.

   

It was fun to carve pumpkins with the kids.  Ethan did not like touching the pumpkin guts.

   

   

   

   

   

All finished! 

   

   

High Shoal Falls in the Fall

It was sunny and cool today, the perfect fall weather for a hike!  We went up to South Mountain to hike High Shoal Falls.  We have not been here since Harper was six months old.  It was a beautiful day to be outside!

    

  

Pandemic Family

  

We realized that Harper is officially too big to ride in a backpack.  This was her last rodeo.  

   

Luckily, she has started to enjoy doing her own hiking.  She walked the entire way back to the car.

   

   

   

    

     

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

High Shoal Falls

  

    

   

My snuggle bug

   

   

   

Big hiker

   

   

Knights Pumpkin Patch

We made reservations to go to the Knights Uptown Baseball Stadium for a pumpkin patch.  It was an outdoor, mask required event that I have been looking forward to for a month!  It was super fun to be out on the field and pick pumpkins.  Harper ended up picking a monster pumpkin that Alex was nice enough to lug around.  We had a great October morning!

   

Out on the field!

  

Socially distanced pumpkins

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

  

Harper sat on most of the pumpkins.

  

  

   

   

   

   

They had food and drink vendors up in the stadium.  I had a warm apple cider and the kids had cookies (for breakfast).

  

   

   

  

    

The kids wanted to be carried home... in addition to the three pumpkins.  So we had Alex go get the car while we waited in Romare Bearden Park.  Harper and Ethan collected acorns for Poppy.