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| Two flying horses. |
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| The whole gang. Ryan was actually just on his way to an air soft war, but he looked dressed up to me, and I'll bet you wouldn't even realize he wasn't in costume otherwise. Two flying horses, one ninja with flames, one skeleton, and a partridge in a pear tree! |
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| Tra-la-la...getting candy in the rain! |
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| Carving pumpkins in the kitchen. |
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| Halloween night-heading out. |
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| Being silly. |
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| These cows were here to greet us at the parking lot. There were a lot of them and they were moo-ing and making me nervous. I don't know cow behavior but all I could think of was how Reagan was wearing a red hat and that they could charge or something! We didn't visit with the cows for long. |
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| The hayride out to the pumpkin patch. We didn't catch the horse-drawn trailor this year-darn! |
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| Reagan didn't love the pumpkin patch as much as I thought she would. She didn't like trying to step over the vines. I remember when Alyssa felt that way, and now it is no problem for her! The pumpkin harvest this year was poor due to weather, but we were more after the adventure anyway! We picked one large pumpkin from the patch, and one goard for Reagan, which she called "her pumpkin", and we purchased the rest of our pumpkins from our local IGA-we like supporting local business:-) |
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| I liked this chair with the pumpkins around, and thought it make make for a good photo. I think I take after my Dad in this way! |
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| Repeat caption above.....isn't this a cool pumpkin launcher! I thought this might make a good photo as well. |
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| We love our down-home farm pumpkin patches, found in Oregon and Washington. Our family got in on this traditional pumpkin shoot/launch. Matthew got to select the pumpkin, and Mike was the "big guy" anchor in the set up, and he was the guy who launched it! He did a great job, and sent the thing flying....the remains were fed to the pigs by the kids. Our kids loved that part! Mike's childhood friend from Fresno was at the patch as well-our second year running into him there (Mike Williams), who you can see in the above photo (far right). We got to catch up with him and his parents, who were visiting from Fresno. Small world! |
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| Ready to launch! |
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| Pigs like pumpkin! |
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| What visit to the pumpkin patch is complete without a trip through the hay maze?? |
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| Also not complete without a ride on the ponies! |
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| And the best part of all....I wasn't sure if we would make it to the pumpkin patch this year in between our busy schedules and weather being right, but we made it and finished up right before the rain really let loose! Yeah! |
