Pumpkin Carving!

This year was Olivia's first hands-on experience with pumpkin carving!

Last year she was just a couple months old so she just got to watch.  This year she got down and dirty and helped clean the pumpkin out!

 Daddy is pulling the insides out and Olivia is putting them back in!

 She kept sticking her hands in the eyes and mouth of the jack-o-lantern!

 My favorites!

I love Fall and the Halloween season!

Pure Happiness!

If you follow me on Instagram you might have seen this picture...

 My first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the season! And it was great....another reason why I love Fall!

Pumpkin Patch Awesomeness...

Last October our pumpkins got smashed (and not in the fun way either!)  A month or so ago we noticed that we had a vine growing right next to our house with our hostas. 

We thought, hey maybe some of those pumpkin seeds planted themselves... so we decided to let it grow, just to see what it brings. 

Sunday morning I walk outside to see quite a few yellow flowers...we may have a few tiny pumpkins by October!

I guess that is truly makes the best out of a previously bad situation!  We shall see!

Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween this year! Probably the best one yet.

Crazy how it has changed in the last few years....before we would get all dressed up and go out to the bar with friends...this year we got Olivia all dressed up and took her around to our friends houses.

It is true what they say. Kids do change your life.  For the better.  I can't imagine living without her - she is amazing and motherhood is fantastic.

 

This is what she wore to daycare!

 Banana!

 I just love her and can't wait until next Halloween!


Embracing the camera with The Anderson Crew

Really? Who does that?

So woke up this morning and noticed that there was a pumpkin in the street right by our house.  So I meander over to clean it up off the street and notice that it is our pumpkin!

We had three little pumpkins that the in-laws grew in their garden and a bigger one that we were going to carve for Olivia. 

So I take a glance up at the door steps where they are and someone had decided to smash our two big pumpkins all over our front steps.

REALLY? Even when I was younger we never did that, and we did some questionable things.  What makes a person think that smashing other people's pumpkins is ok?

I am glad that Olivia is just a small tatertot and doesn't care.  I can imagine as they get older and they have their own pumpkin and if it got smashed they would be upset. I know I would be.

Moral of the story.....don't smash other people's pumpkins.  Not cool.