Enjoy your pumpkins! (warning: this will make you laugh out loud!)

Mac and Kolby last weekend after we carved pumpkins.

Happy Halloween! Our playgroup had a party yesterday. Talk about crazy! The kids had a blast! The girls were all some form of princess/mermaid/disney character (with one exception, the little ladybug sitting next to Mac) and the boys were all animals - penguin, zebra, dinosaur, bee and Tigger. So super cute!

Our little matching penguins. They are so cute!

Addie at the pumpkin patch in the hat I made for her.
A family of four!

Oooohhhh... I can't resist her sweet cheeks!

Our little penguin. He's actually thrilled with his costume, despite the look on his face. He also LOVES candy! When we were talking about Halloween today, I asked him if he remembered what he says to people on Halloween. His response "I want candy, please". Hmmm. We'll have to keep working on it!

They are both penguins! Addie was less than thrilled with the hat, but she got over it.

Mac rides a horse!

Mac finally rode a horse. He's been talking about it for months. He loves going to his friend Brennan's house to visit the horses, and has gotten slightly more comfortable with them, but I really thought he just liked the idea of riding a real horse, and that he wouldn't actually do it. Lee Farms is a pumpkin farm near our house. After a failed attempt to ride the ponies there this summer (we went - no ponies until October!), I was determined he would at lease get the chance to try. So Saturday, we went. They had the ponies. Mac said he would ride, if he could ride the white one named Bubblegum (a story for another time). Thankfully, there was one white horse, and the lady said Mac could call him Bubblegum (but her name was actually Misty). I bought some tickets, and Mac confidently walked up to the horse and let the lady put him on! When I asked him if he wanted me to walk next to him or if he wanted to do it himself, he told me he'd do it himself. wow! So Curt, Addie and I watched from outside the fence. Later, Mac told us he'd like to ride the ponies again, "a brown one this time!" So we got some more tickets, and he rode a brown one. Curt said the look on Mac's face was "No big deal. I ride horses all the time!" So cute.

Mac with the pumpkins and Addie in the Ergo with Curt.


Nursing baby pigs. Now that's a tough job!

We wear a lot of crimson in our house!

Curt is a huge Washington State fan, despite their record this season.

This past weekend, Curt, Mac and Papa headed down to Corvallis to watch OSU and WSU.

The weather was great!

Blog day ONE - I've finally managed to come up with a title/address that was not already in use! Check back for updates on what's happening in our treehouse.
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