Pumpkin Carving and Spiders (ahh!!)

 

Lydia and Matthew had fun coloring the pumpkins and I had fun gutting them (for some reason they didn't want to get their fingers all slimy.)

 

Then we made some yummy spider cookies that Michelle shared with the fam. The Halloween cookies were all gone so we ended up using the chocolate filled ones. FYI, pull & peel twizzlers don't taste the best when eaten the same time as the cookie... not quite the same as milk.

showing off our spiders

  

armpit spiders

  

on the head spiders

Cotton Candy

Lydia's school had a fall festival this past week. I didn't really get any good pictures, but I did get one of cotton candy. I learned that my kids didn't like cotton candy that much as Sheila and I ended up eating most of it. But not to worry as I still like it.

Date Night at the Tacoma Museum of Glass

It's not often that Sheila and I get a chance to go on dates, but we got the chance to get away to go to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA. The third Thursday of every month they have a free night, so we went for about an hour and a half.

While we were there they were making a glass sculpture so you could see how it is done. It's a very tedious and interesting process. We only stayed for part as we didn't have a lot of time to stay at the museum.

 

I couldn't take pictures of the different sculptures on display. Some of them were really neat, but most of them were kinda weird. I didn't take the two pictures above.

Outside they had some more glass sculptures that I could take pictures of. These ones are really neat as they light up at night, and the darker it gets the more lights there are.

Picking Pumpkins

Ok, we actually didn't pick any pumpkins (we already bought some) but we did lots of other stuff including a petting zoo, hay bail maze, slide, tractor rides, corn kernel thing (like the ball area in McDonnald's), and a kid play area. We met up with Sheila's brother Josh and his family before they took off to move to Indiana.

  

 

Matt & Cousin Samantha playing on a tractor 

 

Ride um cowgirl! 

 

Ye haw! 

 

Milking the ahh... bucket 

 

Another tractor 

 

Lydia waiting to go on a tractor ride

 

More tractors 

 

Yea! 

A trip to the park

Going to the park is a common occurrence on non-rainy days up here. Here's some shots from a recent trip.

A trip to Bridalveil Falls

Yesterday we decided to go for a little hike in the Washington Cascades called Bridalveil Falls. I thought that the hike was 2.4 miles but as it turned out we ended up traveling 4.6 miles. Lydia did a great job and walked/ran the entire time. Matthew did well on the way up but I ended up carrying a grumpy boy the entire way back (he needed a nap). I think that next time we will leave a bit earlier and try to find a 1 mile hike, that just might be ideal.

Geocaching

There was a little bit of daylight left Monday evening so we decided to go geocaching. Usually we go and grab the cache and take off, but the trail next to the geocache was really pretty so we took a little stroll. Here's some pictures.