October was such a blessing-packed month and we had such a blast spending time with family, celebrating Ashtyn's birthday, and doing Halloween/fall activities.
Halloween shopping!
We didn't buy the masks, but the kids loved looking at all the Halloween stuff.
Our Halloween decorations after cleaning off the porch.
Growing up, I remember putting up Halloween decorations on our stairs and now my own kids love doing the same. As we do Halloween activities or crafts throughout the month, we can add them to the wall.
😂😂
Oliver is the cutest.
When Oliver struggles with sleep and needs Mom snuggles, I just try to soak in these moments before he grows out of them.
Watching Scooby Doo with her Scooby Doo.
Playing Pickleball!
Ben and I loved taking the kids over to the park with pickleball courts, especially with the beautiful weather we had at the beginning of October.
Ashtyn's 12 days of Ashtyn leading up to her birthday, where we give her a little gift each day leading up to her birthday for 12 days. All the kids love the new tradition.
Ashtyn made a cute little countdown chain to her birthday.
Pumpkin pancakes for Halloween time!
Halloween is getting old enough to get excited for holidays and it's really fun!
Ashtyn loves finding and taking pictures of praying mantises.
Rylee drew the alphabet like the one on the wall and then hung it up 💗
Parker was drawing her emotions.
Ashtyn has decided she wants to learn cursive, so she has been having Ben and I show her how to write each letter and then practicing on her own.
I was helping the kids make skeletons out of Q-tips and thought I could draw a skeleton for Oliver on the paper. This was the face he made 😂 I ended up making him a skeleton out of Q-tips too.
The skeletons turned out really cute! We did a mini skeleton unit study and this was part of it.
The kids had a lot of fun with our unit study and I actually learned a lot too.
Our sweet neighbors brought a haunted house kit for the girls to put together.
We also took advantage of the warm weather to paint outside.
The girls each got a wooden box for their 12 days and we finally painted them all.
A fun fall activity we did was trace leaves onto coffee filters. Then we colored them with washable markers and sprayed them with water to blur the colors together. They turned out really cute!
Another fun thing in October is that we got a new couch!
It was long overdue.
It was quite the project putting it together.
It was a bit of a splurge to buy a new couch and we don't like it as much as we were hoping we would, but we like it way more than our old ones.
Oliver playing in the box!
I was trying to get him on camera from what he was doing earlier (he was saying "beep beep vroom vroom" and pretending he was in a car) but this was cute too.
Our couch!
Right after getting our couch, I got pretty sick with a cold. I ended up missing my cousin's wedding because of it. When I started feeling just a little better, I made an apple pie and it was delicious!
Our movie night in because Mom and Dad were feeling sick.
We watched The Ghost and Mr. Chicken and had ice cream and pie for dessert.
About a week later, when my mom was visiting, Oliver got sick.
It wasn't a terrible one, but he had a little fever for a couple days and had a cough.
Then Rylee got it and it hit her hard. She got an ear infection, had a low-grade fever for a few days, and had a cough.
Then she got well enough for Halloween activities and that must have wiped her out, because she got worse again for a couple days before getting over it.
This year, the bugs have been crazy.
Ben found this fly in our garage, we've never seen a fly this big.
The last secret project!
It's bitter sweet.
One week when we got home from church, we found this snake in our driveway.
We chased it into the weeds in our backyard to try to keep it from getting run over.
Parker made these pumpkin cookies all by herself and loved it!
They turned out really yummy.
We also got to go on a hike with Chris and Ashley.
We also found a longer one we can try another time!
Oliver loved the sand!
Laughing at tractor videos on YouTube with Grandpa 💗
We started watching Scooby Doo at Halloween time and now it's Oliver's favorite show.
It's cute how much he loves it.
Playing Dad's guitar 💗
Parker dressed herself up and wanted a picture.
Our dryer started giving us issues, so Ben and his Dad found this stuck up inside it.
Fixed our dryer!
Ben sold some of his other Pokemon cards to buy this Charzard card that he wanted.
Oliver wants to work like Dad!
Rylee 💗
Ben has been playing a lot of Pickleball and has gotten a few minor injuries from it.
This was his worst one, right on his knuckle.
We loved having cousins with us for the end of October!
Ben and I went out on a little B Fruity date during Oliver's nap while Melissa was home with the kids.
I got to try their pumpkin crepe and it was yummy!
I got to try their pumpkin crepe and it was yummy!
Oliver discovered the "car" at the park and he loved it!
He spent so much time on it.
Chilling at the park while we played pickleball!
The boys were dragging the big water bottles around and it was cute!
Oliver loves pickleball!
The park!
Morning snuggles with cousins!
Thomas loves playing piano!
Ashtyn and Lizzy looking up cheer moves to practice.
Jonathan is learning to like me even when his mom isn't around 😂
Leaf time!
Jonathan was so excited about the leaves.
What's in the leaf pile?
Park days when the weather was still warm!
One of my kids' favorite Halloween activities is to make "witch's potions" with baking soda and vinegar and it was extra fun with cousins.
Carving pumpkins!
It was extra crazy and extra fun with eight kids this year.
All the kids except the toddlers drew their own designs and I love them.
The older kids also carved their own.
One of our favorite traditions is getting a picture of each child with their pumpkin, making the same face as their pumpkin.
And sugar cookies!
We were wanting to make them anyway, so we decided to make them for our ward trunk or treat.
We also had a bunch of yummy, tart apples, so I made a couple of apple pies for the trunk or treat as well (I made one to take and one for us to eat at home). Rylee was sick the morning of the trunk or treat, but we managed to get her there to do it. She was so excited for it, I couldn't bring myself to keep her home. Ben stayed with her in the car during the dinner and then she was able to go trunk to trunk and was super happy about it.
Giant balloons from trunk or treating!
And painting pumpkins! Rylee was feeling pretty sick this day as well.
She painted her pumpkin and then lay down and slept the rest of the day while Melissa took the other kids to the Mayor's Walk (a trick or treating our city does with the shops on Main Street).
Our porch was full of pumpkins this year!
I loved seeing the kids draw themselves in their costumes!
We ended up getting matching dresses for all the cousins from Costco and they are super cute!
Playing gymnastics class with their dolls 💗
This was our Bingo for Halloween/fall and it was fun to do so many fun activities, especially since we got to do a lot of them with cousins! We finished off the month with Halloween fun, which has enough pictures to warrant its own blog post. It was a great month!
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