One of the many wonderful things we’ve found since moving into our home is that we have a Christmas tree farm right down our road, which makes finding the perfect tree a simple task! This year the weather was almost warmish and the Littles thought they were going to run all the way to the tree farm, Gramma caught them and loaded them into her car. Abbie and Chandler found the fun seats!

We all searched for our version of the perfect tree.

Maya found her favorite tree and decided to pose there until someone would take her picture!

If you’ll notice we had a couple tree-bugs sneaking out the back of our family photo ~

Maya stayed posed while the rest of the family smiled in front of the tree they chose

Mom had all the kids join around the tree she picked out, which she later realized wasn’t the perfect tree because it leaned to one side very badly and did not like to stay in the stand!

After all the posing, the boys got to work sawing through the trunks while the Littles pushed on the trees and said, ‘timber!’.

The girls helped haul the trees toward the vehicles.

Once the trees were on the strapped down to the vehicles leaving the neighborhood, we had cocoa & peppermint sticks. A family-fun-filled day. It was perfect.

Our pretty pumpkins turned into Jack-O-Lanterns. Our children into characters… a day filled with excitement in anticipation of CaNdY & Trick-or-Treats!

Abbie spent the evening with her friends. They spent enough time trick-or-treating to get a bucket filled with treats and a toothbrush! Then the girls spent the rest of the evening hanging out & having fun together.

James decided to retire the vampire and head out as a Fly Fisherman. It was awfully cute to see him lugging the giganormous bucket door to door.

James was dealing with an ear infection on this night and was excited about going out… we decided to head to the high school where he could be warm & cozy indoors and knock on lots of classroom doors!

These are some of Abbie’s friends who handed out candy dressed as volleyball players.

When James knocked on this door he was tricked or rather treated by Miss Ebie!! Miss Ebie is the owner of Country Friends, the school James has attended for the past 3 years. What a fun surprise to see Miss Ebie.

I had to get into the photos cause I dressed up too!

Our Jack-o-Lanterns lit up our front walk well. They were quite creepy!

Abbie’s Cyclops

James’ Creepy-Creeper

Josh’s Mischief Grinning Pumpkin

Stacie with the Fall Leaves Pumpkin… we can’t all be scary!

A frightfully~fun evening.

Grandpa Steve invited the kids down for a Halloween Party at the Elks.

James and Amara were thrilled! Maya was happy to go, but she wanted nothing to do with costumes! Stephanie and I had found her the cutest little garden nome – though she put up a fuss with the whole thing & won. She wore a festive little t-shirt instead! Her Mama, however, was all about dressing up! Stephanie makes herself into a pretty-cute & friendly witch!

The Littles had lots o’ fun decorating their pumpkins. James’ pumpkin actually won a contest.

The 3 Amigos.

Stephanie ~ the friendly witch, Jessica ~ a tiger, Stacie ~ Ruby, our cat

Pumpkin Buckets filled with Happy Meals – a sleeping baby… on our way home!

A day full of FUN and a little candy too…

Saturday morning we made our annual trek over to Bi-Zi Farms, a local pumpkin patch, to search for pumpkins, sip on warm cocoa, look at farm animals, find our way through mazes, enjoy a hay ride, and take part in some good old-fashioned fun! It’s become a tradition since moving down from Alaska to visit this pumpkin patch… only this year we were late arriving at the patch only 24 hours before the BIG day! The plus was very few people. The minus… well, we had to really look for that just-right pumpkin!

We found them no doubt. Though we did spend lots of time looking through this…

Though after searching we each found something great!

James was the first to make his find – the BIGGEST pumpkin!

I found the smallest pumpkin -

Abbie searched and searched. She didn’t want a too-big or too-small or too-tall or too-squat pumpkin.

Josh chose this one, but set it down… misplaced it and ended up with something even better (or so he says!)

With our perfect pumpkins, we walked up the hill to catch a tractor ride back to the festivities.

All smiles on our hay ride!

Abbie was a great sport heading through the little-maze with James

Grinding Corn

and this was super-cool… It pulls all the kernels off and spits the cobb out the other side.

Once home and warmed up, we turned our pumpkins into Jack-O-Lanterns!

What a mess… but a fun-filled day for sure!