Pumpkin night

About six years ago I decided to start "Pumpkin Night". The idea is that each year we have something made with pumpkin for dinner (& dessert if time permits) and we carve our Halloween pumpkins. This year for dinner we had Pumpkin, barley, sage soup along with some everyday things....homemade chicken fingers, and veggies. The soup was a hit! After cleaning up dinner it was time to carve the ginormous pumpkins!Zander asked me to "carve a mommy pumpkin with lips and eyelashes." Then he ate the parts of pumpkin that I had just carved out. Luckily Chase, Trey and Layton are old enough that they can do all of the carve themselves so I don't have to halep much. (Carving pumpkins is not my favorite thing to do) I carved a quick face on McKay's pumpkin and then we let him have a butter knife and go to town on his pumpkin. He had a blast sticking the knife in and pulling it out. Unfortunately there wasn't much left of his pumpkin, but he was happy so that was all that mattered! Once everyone was done carving their pumpkins we had to light them so we could see what they looked like. Everyone did such a good job with their pumpkins and more importantly everyone had fun!We finished off the evening by decorating cupcakes. It was another great 'pumpkin night'.

finished

After a couple months of having a hole (two actually, but who is counting) in our backyard we finally got the firepit finished!! Once Matt got the hole done it didn't take much time for us to get the seating and ring done. We finished it last Saturday (landscaping still not complete) and broke it in by roasting hot dogs and smores.

*Note to self and anyone else who might be interested--do NOT buy the giant marshmallows from Winco again. They were a huge mess, but gave us a good laugh*

Sunday Drive

It was a beautiful day Sunday (upper 70's) so we decided to go for a drive after church. We went to Palouse Falls and had a picnic and then hiked along the river. What a beautiful place it is. It was quite scary walking right along the river because it was straight down to the river at parts. Trey tripped on the path and went head first down the side of the hill....luckily he only went a foot or so. It scared me half to death though. It was a fun day!