*falling*

Fall fun! I love the fall. On Columbus Day weekend we went to this really cool thing in NY called "The Great Pumpkin Blaze" . It's near Sleepy Hollow on the Hudson River. They carved 1000's of pumkins and made them into structures including dinosaurs, a gigantic spider web, discoing jack 0' lantern skeletons, etc. It was amazing. However, my camera isn't amazing. So trying to get a good pic of these things is pretty much impossible. So here are a few mediocre ones. I had to laugh because most of the time our eyes were glowing more than the pumpkins eyes (see demon Jared in the 2nd picture). (Trav, notice the large orb next to Jared's head... yikes!)

The next pics are from a local grocery store that has all kinds of fun stuff year round for kids. We love it! Right now they converted one of their parking garages into a haunted house. You take a hay ride down (pulled by a tractor) and they drive you around their spook house. It has all kinds of spooky things (skeletons/ghosts) and some not so spooky things (mickey mouse) It was perfect for our kids and perfect for the parents (cost $1 each.) Then we went and picked out our pumpkins for this year. As you can see, we found some that we just couldn't live without.

On the hay ride...

We'll post some pictures of the fall leaves soon... it is so beautiful around here this time of year!! We love New England. Things I love about fall... Looking up into the trees and watching the leaves fall like rain, watching the busy squirrels collect acorns, piles of leaves on the side of the road, pumpkin butter, Houses decorated all spooky-like, checking out Halloween books at the library, pulling out sweaters, soccer games on Saturday, the smell of pumpkin guts when you carve a pumpkin, and kids who are so excited about Halloween they can't decide what they want to be. Mia is going to be a ballerina or a witch. Sam is going to be a skeleton, pterodactyl or bat. Eli is going to be a dinosaur or a tiger (they are even indecisive for him!)

Happy Fall, All!