Halloween

Thursday night we carved pumpkins which was an interesting activity with Zack and Austin. After Aaron cut the top off we gave them the spoons to start gutting it and apparently they are already very frugal boys and didn't want to waste the inside so they thought they would eat it instead. When they finally got a little taste of it in their mouths they weren't very impressed, it was pretty funny!


They both were really mad that we wouldn't let them hold the knives themselves and they would definitely not go for holding it with us (our independent minded children!) so that made the rest of the carving experience interesting. Austin had a hard time getting past it and cried a lot of the rest of the time. After we were done they decided to try eating the tops of their pumpkins like apples, until they tasted them and then they decided it wasn't that good of an idea.


It was an adventure and will probably be a few years before they can do most of it themselves, but it's a fun tradition that me and Aaron have been doing since we were dating.


This morning we started a new tradition and had pumpkin pancakes with apple cider syrup for breakfast (yum!). Then me and the boys headed outside for a photo shoot, it's not easy trying to get them to smile and take the pictures!

I just had to include this one because Austin was so cute helping me rake the leaves in to place.

Zack
Austin

Here is my little Yoda. Disclaimer: We did not decide to have Austin be Darth Vader because we think he is evil. Those were the two costumes that Aaron liked and Zack was picked to be Yoda because he is smaller and his face was rounder which we thought looked cuter with the Yoda ears plus the Yoda costume drove Austin crazy. In Aaron's words "Darth Vader isn't evil, he just strayed off the right path for a little while. We love our boys equally and think they are both wonderful!!

Our cute Darth Vader


Here is how our boys really felt about the photo shoot. Austin HATED his hat!! I told him I would give him candy if he left it on so most of the pictures are of him with a sad face saying "cany."


Then we had our traditional potato soup in bread bowls for dinner. I love having traditions! My boys getting ready to go trick-or-treating for their first time. They didn't really get it, but I'm sure next year they will be running from house to house. Either way after only about an hour we got more than enough candy!