Getting ready for Halloween

Only two weeks left until Halloween, so we figured it was time for us to ensure that we got into the swing. We already had our pumpkins sitting near the front door, so it was time to get some spooky spiders webs up and happening, just to scare off those who want to trick or treat!

Anyhow - here is our albeit simple attempt at putting up some spiders webs. Cynfor appears to be scared ...

October already?!

Well, another year heading toward the end in a real hurry. We are not quite sure what happened to summer, but it did appear to sneak past in a hurry. Here we are in Autumn, and getting ready for Halloween - again! 

This will be our 3rd Halloween, so we are pretty much aware of what happens now. The kids still enjoy it, as do we getting prepared for it. This weekend just gone, we headed out to the pumpkin patch and got ourselves two nice pumpkins to carve in preparation for the one night where we trick or treat. 

Here are some pictures of our day. 

Some pictures from things that have happened in the past few months...

Unfortunately we have not been too good at making sure we uploaded all our pictures of things we have been doing. So, below are a few pictures of things we have been up to.




We had a BBQ at our house, with friends from Seattle and other friends from Portland. Here are some pictures from that night - which ended up also being a little bit of a surprise for Darren to help celebrate his birthday!




Autumn has arrived here in the pacific northwest, and here is Jessie outside of the school they have Chinese lessons in just showing off the colour. 


This was at Jenny's 40th Birthday Party. The birthday girl and Tara! (Like the tiara?) 

Although the boys did not win their soccer game, they still had a lot of fun eating Pizza and hanging around after the game! GO IRON! 

Our ripened tomatoes.

So, previously we had pictures of our GREEN TOMATOES, but here we have the ripened version, and lots of them. They are very sweet, and full of flavor. Nice job by Kylie planing them with the kids when they were here, and look at them now. Grown from SEED!

Cynfor's 11th Birthday

Cynfor chose to head out to Skyline Restaurant - which is an old American style "burger" Diner. It is something he has wanted to do for a while, but Jessie was not very happy when she heard. Anyhow, we ended up having a great night - even Jessie enjoyed it. Below are the pictures of our food, and check out the Burger's they were 6 inches (13.5cm) big! Huge! They were great, and we definitely enjoyed them. 

Tuesday was Cynfor's actual Birthday - which as you can see below, he was quite spoiled! The gifts came from everyone. He is still very excited about getting his new stuff out so he can play. He has already used his new boots - and looks forward to using his other things!