There's No Such Thing as a Witch....Or is There?

 On this beautiful Friday morning, Shauna, Lyle, Caylee, Hailey and Angela loaded into the van to visit Gardner Village.  We had to prove to the girls that the witches are getting ready for Halloween.  We didn't have to look far before we found a witch and then two and more!

You wouldn't believe all the things witches can do!  They play baseball, put our fires, play the piano, dance, fly, ride bike, dance and many other things.  Here's a picture accounting of the things we saw and heard. 

There were witches who knew how to play baseball

And witches flying through the air on bikes and broomsticks

One witch asked us to sit and talk for a while

Do witches really eat hot dogs?  This one does.

Witches taking flying lessons and not doing very well

Fire-woman witch

Playing a great song on the piano!

Rowing across the lake.  With dynamite???

 

Funny story.  All of the girls wanted to see what was inside a funny little outhouse next to a building.
They go walking down the path to open the door when Lyle says to them,
"Are you sure you want to open that door?
Something might be in there."
Every girl stopped in their tracks, and Hailey turns to Lyle and says,
"YOU open the door, Lyle!"

So, Lyle opens up the door!!
But, there was only wires and electrical things in there.
It wasn't scary at all!

Pumpkin Painting

After going to the pumpkin patch there are so many things to do with our pumpkins.  The first thing is to paint them!  Painting on a new medium is way too much fun to stop at just a face, so we all painted every inch of the pumpkins.

It started out as pumpkins of many colors but quickly turned to black pumpkins.  Aren't they beautiful??!!

Pumpkin Patch!!!

I think going to the pumpkin patch is one of my favorite things to do!  And, luckily we live so close to several! This is our second year going to the pumpkin patch.  We're going to definitely make it an annual outing!  Besides pumpkins the farm had goats on the loose this year.  The farm boys were trying to heard 3 very stubborn goats from one place to another.  Needless to say, the goats did NOT want to go.  We tried not to laugh as the goats ran past us and dashed away from the boys trying to herd them.  I think that little show was as much fun as picking our pumpkins. 

The other little tidbit of information that is becoming strikingly clear....if you have more than 2 children in any given picture, you can pretty much guarantee none of them will look at Shauna and say cheese.  So, I've tried to pick the best (and I took a LOT I can't place here), but in the end, there was more to look at that was more interesting than the lady holding the phone camera.

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Fall

This week we've been talking about all the changes that come during the Fall season: changing colors, changing weather and temperatures, changing activities.  We went for a short neighborhood walk to discover some changes and found leaves already falling on the ground!!  Of course, we had to make our own fall trees!