Peter and Mandy: October and November

So I'm a little behind in updating the blog...

Here's October:

Showing off our cute jammies. Connor and Chloe received these same jammies last year from Abbie, but they were too small for this year, so Mommy found them on sale at Carters and bought some more. The kids were excited to wear them.

We went to this fun pumpkin patch. This is a goat maze.

The kids each got to ride a pony.

And pick out their own pumpkin

Connor also went to a pumpkin patch with his class for a field trip. Mommy got to go along too.

Connor was proud of his white pumpkin.

We also went to a Halloween carnival at school. Connor wanted to be a garbage man for Halloween. I don't know what garbage men wear, so we gave him a construction hat, vest and a garbage bag and he was happy.

In November:
Connor's school had their annual Walk-a-thon. Connor enjoyed running all of his laps.

I think this was the cool down lap

For Thanksgiving we drove to Utah this year. We stayed with Emily and Drew again and their two cute kiddos Colby and Abby. The kids had a blast playing together and Connor keeps asking when are we going to go back to Colby's house. While there, we were invited to an ice cream party, but then it started to snow.

About an hour or two after the snow started, the front yard looked like this:

Connor was so excited, we went outside and watched the snow fall. Connor exclaims, "I've never seen snow fall from the sky before." He's only seen snow already on the ground or manmade snow, so this was pretty exciting. We skipped out on going to the ice cream party and made snowmen instead. Emily had kept all of her kids' snow gear, so she was able to find something to fit Connor and Chloe so they could go play in the snow. We did not pack any snow gear as it has never snowed in the years that we have visited for Thanksgiving. We were happy to have warm snow gear to borrow for the kids.

After building some pretty cool snowmen, the kids eventually came inside and we all had hot chocolate and then got ready for bed.

On one of the days we went to the Museum of Natural Curiosity with Emily and her kids, and Amy and her kids. The kids had a blast and didn't want to go home. On another day we went to the Treehouse were Connor built this cool arch. We took Colby with us and the boys wandered around for quite some time picking out their favorite places to be. Colby played in a school house for a long time. Connor played in a diner and with these blocks. Chloe went everywhere! She finally held still playing with a grocery area with foods, in the diner and in this block area were Legos she enjoyed building.

Look who made two arches with Daddy's help...they were pretty tall.

The kids also did a cute craft-they made a pilgrim and Indian. Connor brought his home and then promptly wrapped them up. He said they were my Christmas present.

Chloe loved the dinosaur exhibit. She had to ride them.

I think this was at the Museum of Natural Curiosity. Chloe loved the climbing areas.

On one of the days we went and visited Uncle Blaine's cows. I believe the two on the left are Blaine's cows and the two on the right are uncle Brent's cows. The smallest calf was born in early November and the momma was very protective. Blaine was out feeding the cows so they let Peter and the kids watch relatively close.

For Thanksgiving we always rent a church gym and get together potluck style with all the families. This year we were in charge of bringing fruit. We made two cute turkey fruit platters and a fruit salad. We found out that cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon are not to be bought in November here. The watermelon and cantaloupe went straight into the trash. The honeydew didn't have much taste, but it wasn't bad, so we kept it.