Happy Halloween!

We carved pumpkins this year, and we made the mistake of getting three huge pumpkins to carve.  It was a ton of work, there was so much pumpkin guts in them!  Here is a photo of Shawn and Ellie just getting started.

 Here are the three of us with our finished products.  They turned out pretty good!

 Happy Halloween Everybody!!!

Thirty

I guess turning 30 wasn't so horrible...  I'd been dreading it for about 30 years and I survived it without any major battle wounds.  Shawn invited a bunch of people over for cake and festivities, and it was fun to see all of the people that came.  He also made me a cake and decorated it all on his own!  My husband is so nice to me...  :) 

And of course there was a ton of Wii playing going on that evening.  What would be a good get-to-gether without come competitive Wii action?

Greenbluff Fall Festival

Each weekend in October the farming community of Greenbluff hosts it's fall festival.  We just had to go up and be a part of the festivities.  We ate some fresh hot pumpkin doughnuts, picked out our fall pumpkins, and enjoyed the unseasonal temperature of 80 degrees!  It was a beautiful day.  Here are my people resting on a straw bale. 

 Shawn eating a yummy pumpkin doughnut.

 The family

 Here's Shawn hauling away all of our pumpkins we purchased!  We are really looking forward to carving them to display by our door this year.  It's our first time with trick-or-treaters in our new home! 

Sweet 16

Ellie turned sweet 16 a couple of weeks ago (I'm late on the blogging) and she went down to get her license that day right after school.  She was so happy to have passed and now she's an independent woman driving all over town!  Here is a photo of her and her dad at her birthday party. 

And a picture of her super cool cake!  A family friend made it for her, and it was so tasty too!