Halloween

we spent halloween at the crass's as we do every year now, for the past 4 or 5 years. our small group does hot dogs, smores, drinks, and candy for the neighboorhood, and we take off to a little trick-or-treating. since it was raining and cold, carly and i stood under the tarp while nathan and caleb went trick-or-treating. you can see the driveway lined with our small group's pumpkins, and an up-close of the one nathan carved.

The Pumpkin Patch 2009

Last week, nathan took a long lunch and we headed to the pumpkin patch at oakes farm. this has become a family tradition at our house and this was our third year going. it took us a while to get there becuase we took a wrong turn... but we eventually made it. this year, we nearly had the place to ourselves. the first thing caleb wanted to do was slide downt he enormous slide they had built. he climbed the stairs and slid several times and then got brave. he decided to go down on his belly and smacked his chin on the ground as he came out - and then he was done! so, then we took the hayride to the pumpkin patch, all by ourselves. and i couldn't decide on a few pictures, so you'll have to look at all of them :)