Carving Pumpkins

Saturday night my family got together to carve our pumpkins. This year the garden did really good and we had enough pumpkins for everyone to carve one. Kenlee loved the pumpkin guts last year but this year she was a little more reluctant to put her hand into the pumpkin. I am not one that really enjoys the gutting part either so we tried it together. I will still do it but it

is definitely something I will hurry through.

We are both a little grossed out.

Eventually Blake took over the gutting responsibility while I took pictures. Kenlee was more willing to get involved when daddy was having fun with it. She always has to be like daddy. Its pretty dang cute.

After the pumpkin walk I decided to try making Kenlee a minion from Despicable Me. I painted the pumpkin so that it looked like Kevin. He turned out pretty cute if you ask me. Blake carved an AWESOME batman signal. He always carves one of the coolest pumpkins. When I finally got around to actually carving my pumpkin I had put a lot of time into painting Kevin so I did a normal jack-o-lantern face.

All the pumpkins that were done that night. From left to right: My jack-o-lantern face, Tiffany and Brock's haunted house, Karlee's scared jack-o-lantern, Mom's jack-o-lantern, Blake's batman signal, Kenlee's Kevin minion, and Nate's angry bird.

Pumpkin Walk

For fall break we decided to attended the Pumpkin Walk. Blake had not been since he was in 5th grade and I haven't been since I was little. Kenlee didn't know what to think about it at first but when we finally got around to scenes that she recognized she LOVED it! The first scene that Blake loved was the Angry Birds. Blake has liked this game forever and thought that the pumpkin piggies were hilarious.

Of course we had to get a family picture with the piggies....

Lately Kenlee has really started to like football. She calls it "daddy's ball." When she saw the football game scene she ran past one other scene and started yelling "daddy's ball." Blake was so proud of her....

Thursday we decided to borrow several movies from April so that we could have a movie night while Blake was off. Kenlee borrowed Despicable Me. Ever since she watched it she has been obsessed with the minions. She calls them her babies. If you ask her what her babies say she will stick her tongue out and act like the minions. So when she saw the Despicable Me scene she got so excited, she tried to convince us to take one of the minions home.

She also likes to watch Phineas and Ferb with my brothers....

I thought that the Winnie the Pooh set was really well done and so Kenlee and I got our pictures in front of Pooh Bear. She also likes Pooh Bear so that was a bonus...

Of course we had to take advantage of the cute character cut outs at the end of the pumpkin walk. Kenlee insisted that we take a picture at everyone of them so these are just some of my favorites.

We had such a great time at the Pumpkin Walk and I think we will try to do it every year as a family activity.

Sugar n' Spice and Everything Nice

That's right, its a GIRL!! We had our ultrasound on Tuesday and found out we are having another little girl! We are so excited that Kenlee will be getting a sister. This little one is just as active as Kenlee was in her ultrasound so if that says anything about their personalities we have another active little girl on the way. The poor ultrasound tech had a hard time capturing the pictures she needed to because she was kicking and rolling all over the place. Everything is looking great, she is a happy and healthy little baby. She still measures exactly to her March 8th due date (she is very determined to be born on our anniversary.) We are working on names for her but probably won't name her officially til she is here and we can see what she looks like.

Sorry the 4-d pics are sideways, I couldn't get them to turn.

We are officially at our half way point in this pregnancy. I am 20 weeks today! I don't feel like I look too much bigger then my 16 week pictures but I finally had to break down and buy maternity pants cause my belly band was not working anymore so I know that I have to be bigger. I am feeling pretty good, we have been able to keep my hip pain down so far and I am able to sleep now because I have retrained myself to sleep on my side.

Kenlee is slowly catching on to what is going on. We have asked her for the last two weeks whether she wanted a brother or sister and every time she told us "no just me." I asked her again Monday night ( the day before the appointment) and finally she anwsered "no just a baby." It was so cute. Also we have been telling her that the baby is in mommies tummy and she finally will say hi to my tummy and blow it kisses for the baby. I LOVE to watch her do that. She is going to be such a great big sister.

October Fun Beginnings

These are some of the fun holiday projects that we have done so far. Our first one is painting baby pumpkins. Kenlee loved painting her baby Mmms (which is what she calls her baby pumpkins). She was able to paint four of them, two for grandma to use as decorations and two to take home for her to decorate with. I did fear that this project may get a little crazy with her just freely painting but she did soooo good. She calmly painted her pumpkins, the only issue was that she wanted her paint brush to play in the rinsing cup of water too much.

Our next project was Halloween Sugar Cookies. Blake had last Saturday off so we took advantage of the down time and made sugar cookies or hot kitties as Kenlee loves to call them. I had her pick out the cookie cutters when we were shopping a week earlier and she loved the kitty cut out the most. We had a ghost, a moon, a witch, a cat, a pumpkin, and a bat. Kenlee helped cut them out of the dough and then later helped to frost them.

Can you tell which ones are Kenlee's beautiful masterpieces? Hint: she LOVED the sprinkles most of all :)