My favorite little pumpkin of "2008"

I just had to put these pics on here because they are some of my favorites. Matt and I took these of Ellidy last year around Halloween and I love them. She loved sitting in this pumpkin chewing on it. She got so mad when we took her out and she couldn't chew on it anymore. I don't know if she liked the taste of it or because it was cold and felt good on her gums, maybe a combo of both?! Anyway if I need something to make me smile, these definitely do it for me!

Carving pumpkins

We started out by going to a pumpkin patch and picking out some pumpkins. Iailey thought it was great that she had so many options to choose from. She did a great job picking out the perfect one. Then we were off to Matt's mom's to carve the pumpkins. Many years ago Matt's brother Stacy gathered us all up and got us started carving these fun pumpkins which has now become a tradition every year. We all look forward to it. We always have a great dinner and then carve the pumpkins. It's a great time together.

Lisa and Damon

Lucy and Stacy

Grandma Rhodehouse busy with all the little ones while we carved pumpkins.

Ellidy and Lucy enjoying snacks while we carved pumpkins.

Alex loves the dip! Can you tell? Loved the messy face, so cute.

Sweet baby Lola sat in the highchair and was such a good baby the whole time. She just watched what everyone was doing.

Grandma Grace was so sweet and brought treats for her Great Grand kids and Grand kids for Halloween because she wasn't going to be around on Halloween day. Thanks we loved the cookies!



The final result! They all turned out great!

Mine is the bat.

Matt's is the cat (for Ellidy because she loves kitty's) and Iailey's is the smiley face next to the cat. Easton had a birthday party so he didn't make it out to carve pumpkins this year, we have one at home for him that hopefully we'll find the time to carve at home.

We always have to light them up and see how they look. The kids get so excited when they are all lit up.

Have you ever been this tired?

Not to long ago I received this cute email, that said "have you ever been this tired"? Then it had all these cute pics of kids and animals and the funny ways they fell asleep. The other night Ellidy had one of these moments. I was holding her on the couch and she fell asleep. All of sudden she wiggled out of my arms, I let her go because I thought she was waking up. She stood up, looked at the couch and just laid her head down (while still standing) and fell back asleep. I thought she would wake up after a couple of minutes, but she didn't she just stood there asleep. The kids and I were laughing so hard and that didn't even wake her up. I had to get a picture and the flash is what finally woke her up. What a sweet tired little girl.

Parade & Football

The Rams are now 6-0! They will go into the playoffs as the #1 seed. Way to go Rams! Hopefully they can keep up their momentum and win the playoff game.

Iailey was in the ISU homecoming parade this weekend with DSDS the company she dances for. She had a lot of fun. It was of course at the same time as the football game. So Tawna and I dropped the girls off, watched them go through at the first of it and then hustled over to the football game. Thanks again Kristi for picking up the girls and bringing them over to the football game for us afterwards.

Sassy little Iailey.

Iailey, Lexi, Jensyn, and Masi

Jensyn, Iailey, and Lauren