Happy Halloween

This year I had the hardest time trying to decide what to have the boys do for Halloween and I put it off until the last week to try and decide.
Blake ended up being easy though because he could fit into the costume I made for Jacob's first Halloween- a little turtle! Who do you think wore it best?

Jacob at 6 1/2 months in the first two above, and Blake at 4 1/2 months below



Oh and Jacob wearing the shell again- getting jealous he wanted to try it on too and try crawling around like a turtle, haha.
But since I didn't have a lot of time to get a costume together for Jacob I decided it would be easier to just buy him one this year- so we picked a Buzz Lightyear costume! He was pretty excited about it, although it's not the most original for boys his age. At the ward Halloween party I think I saw about 4 Buzz Lightyears...
I'm not sure what Jacob thought of that, but all I kept noticing were how much cooler the other Buzz Lightyear costumes were! And to go along with Jacob's costume, Luke and I casually dressed as Woody and Jessie, which Jacob thought was a lot of fun even though we really didn't look like them at all.



All week I had been preparing Jacob for trick or treating and trying to explain how if he says trick or treat when we knock on someones door, they'll put candy in his bucket. And since he saw me buy our Halloween candy, all week at home Jacob kept stealing my candy, putting it in his Halloween bucket, and then running to show me and would squeal "Trick or treat! I did it!" So he was a little confused, but it was pretty cute. So he got his first taste of trick or treating at the ward party and that was fun, just real congested with all the other kids in the church.
So Halloween night Jacob went trick or treating with his friends Collin and Natalie. I think he had a lot of fun going with some friends, and so did I!

I was so proud of Jacob walking to each house and it was so cute when they'd all say trick or treat! He got the hang of it quick and had a lot of fun! And he got a lot of good candy too!
And this was only the first half! On the drive home Jacob still wanted to go trick or treating but I needed to get Blake home, so I dropped him off at our neighbors the Loughes, and they were sooo nice to take him trick or treating around our neighborhood and back to my house. So Jacob ended up with a lot of candy! I'm not sure which part is his favorite though, the candy or getting to wear his Buzz Lightyear costume- he's worn it these past three days after Halloween too!

And even Blake got to see his little friend Beckett too, so cute! Anyway, Halloween was a lot of fun this year, especially now that Jacob is old enough to understand how it all works and participate in all the fun stuff, but he's still young enough that he doesn't realize I've kept half of his candy for myself! Muhahaha! Happy Halloween! :)

Pumpkin Pickin' and Carvin'

The Saturday before Halloween we went to the same pumpkin patch that we went to last year with some friends.
Jacob picked his own pumpkin off the vine



After we picked our pumpkins we let Jacob run around the hay maze and check out the farm animals.

He was a little too scared to pet the horse.
And he screamed when he saw the turkey walking slowly towards him- it was pretty creepy actually.
But he did finally pet the goats, even though you can't tell on my picture
He liked seeing all the animals and wanted to go back and do it again.


We had a good time at the pumpkin patch!

After the snow we had, our pumpkins froze outside, so once they thawed enough we started our carving. We decided to make them into Angry Bird pumpkins since Jacob likes them so much, and Blake's pumpkin was a little green pig.
And since Jacob wanted to help I let him paint the pumpkins first. And he did a great job helping, but I don't think we'll do paint again. I didn't really have good paint, or quite the right colors. Like Jacob's was the red bird but it turned out more pink. But that's fine, Jacob had fun helping.
Jacob really got into it, scooping out the seeds, and pulling the rest out with his hands..
I love his face here because you can tell it's really gooey but he insisted on doing it all by himself. Oh and ever since we picked out his Buzz Lightyear costume he's practically worn it nonstop haha.

And these are how our two angry birds turned out! Jacob loves them!

First Snow

We already got our first snow of the season on Wednesday! We got about 8 inches total and Jacob had a great time running through the snow... and eating it. This is the first snow that Jacob remembers since he was so young last year, so he was pretty excited. And every day he's been singing Once There Was a Snowman.

getting ready to go outside, he was excited to get all his warm gear on

And he's off!

 Blake had to stay inside with me but he got to watch Jacob play

 I really don't mind snow days as long as I don't have anywhere to go, I have a good book to read, and the snow doesn't stay forever. Since it snowed it's been sunny and warming back up again. So at least it's quickly melting and we should have a nice Fall Halloween weekend!