Donuts and Pumpkins

Our Saturday mornings often seem to come and go by "lounging" around, Owen taking his morning nap, getting ready for the day. But this past Saturday we got up and out of the house by 8:30am and headed for a Donut shop Casey had heard great things about:
Lucy was all too thrilled to have something that sort of looked like a cupcake and tasted just as yummy. Sprinkles of course: I like this picture of her and me. I feel just like her: a little kid sitting on the curb eating treats.
The donuts were actually really good. Not sure it's worth a 20 min drive but still a tasty treat. It's hard to tell in the photo but these two donuts are HUGE. I'm glad Casey didn't eat-it-all. In fact, he wishes there was a donut shop that sold donuts 1/4 the size of these. Hmmm....a lovely idea!
Chilling with dad. Great Saturday morning outing!
We spent our afternoon playing with toys and taking naps. I bought some blocks for the kids and they seem to be a hit!
And in the evening we celebrated pumpkins. We headed to the Kidspace Pumpkin festival (which really wasn't all that great but made for a nice photo backdrop of pumpkins and kids) .Lucy sported a new Fall Leave hairclip. I was surprised these didn't sell too well at the boutique last month. But everyone's into cupcakes! Oh well, now Lucy gets to enjoy it...in every color...
We ran into friends there but the Fackrells are the only ones we got a picture of. Love this shot; Max doing whatever and Mia posing just long enough from tears to look at the camera. Great stuff! And cute family:The highlight of our outing was just hanging out in the pumpkin patch playing with pumpkins. Owen's expression makes me smile:
Owen wanted to drum on each one:
And Lucy wanted to pick them all up:It was hard to catch them both smiling but these turned out kind of cute:
And to finish the evening - dinner at one of our favorite establishments. Our drinks of preference:
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Sunday, we continued with the pumpkin theme by heading to my parent's house.
How adorable is this picture? A little blurry on Ava. But such cute cousins together. The little girls love Jeremy. And how old does he look here? He's growing up!
But he still loves to play their silly games (or they love to play his...). Here they are jumping from the coffee table to the couch as we parents look on, until Gram came around and asked us to stop. Sorry! (but hurry, do it one more time so I can take a picture) The dinner table looked so festive and cute. One half of the group:
And the other end of the table. Can you find Ava?
These pictures also make me smile. How cute is this little guy getting all messy with pasta noodles?
After dinner, we spread out newspaper and carved pumpkins. Since Lucy loves to watch us color these days (instead of actually coloring herself) I had a feeling she'd be into this. And she was! She carefully watched Casey draw a face and carve out the pieces on her very cute and tiny pumpkin:While Casey pulled out all the stringy insides from the pumpkin, Lucy exclaimed over and over "there's the honey! the honey!" She thought the little pumpkin was a honey pot just like Whinnie the Pooh carries around. And the stinging insides were strings of honey. Pretty funny.
Once we put a candle inside and lit it up, she exclaimed, "Happy Birthday!" Then she blew out the candle and wanted to do it seven more times. Funny girl. Jeremy was so funny when I took this picture. At the last moment he posed his hand next to the pumpkin to pretend that he was in-action. He's learned from his aunts and uncles! And this picture is awesome. Ava did not want to participate, but dang it! Eric was going to make sure she had fun:
I guess Ava won. She went back in the garage to play with the Little People.
Here are the pumpkins, all lined up. Eric and Laura even carved some turnips (which are what was originally used on Halloween, LONG ago). They're the little ones in front. From left to right the pumpkins are: Bryan's cartoon face, Jeremy's classic jack 'o lantern, my pumpkin cage, Lucy's mini pumpkin, and Eric's "this did not work out at all" random cutting job. Lucy and her pumpkin. It's hard for me to see myself in my kids sometimes but this picture looks a lot like me when I was her age:
Time to get cracking on the Halloween costumes. Only a few days left!