Trick or Treat.....

The boys had so much fun running from house to house getting candy from all the neighbors. This year I was told by Kurt to stay on the sidewalk while they went up to get their candy.  Our boys are growing up :( :(

The boys wanted mommy and daddy to dress up for trick or treat night. So as you can see I'm  Thomas and Daddy is a fisherman.   We would also like to say thank you Nana for passing out candy so we can trick or treat together as a family.

Pumpkin carving....

Today we work on carving our pumpkin for Halloween night.  The boys enjoy watching Mommy and Nana clean out the pumpkin because it was "to gross" for them.  Luke helped mommy draw his face on his pumpkin and then pushed out the eyes, nose and mouth.  Kurt did his pumpkin on his own this year with supervision.  He did a great job and took his time. 

Luke's

Kurt's

pumpkin pie.....

I did it.....I made pumpkin pie from scratch.... I first had to clean out the pumpkins and steam them on the oven till the meat came out of the pumpkin.

  It took about 10 mins to clean out the pumpkin and 20-30 mins to steam.  During this time I made the crust and baked it for 10 mins.  After I cleaned out the meat of the pumpkins. I used my hand blender and made the pumpkin puree.

 Then the fun part....mixing all the spices in the pumpkin puree.  Then I put the mixture into the pie crust and baked for 45-60 mins.... Looks like pumpkin pie...now just waiting for Rick to do the taste testing....

After making two pies I still had some mixture left so I made pumpkin bread....

yummy yummy..I'll let you know how the taste testing goes....

Learning.....

Daddy got a pictures of Kurt in art class....hard at work

reuseable...

Daddy had to get a new laptop for work.  What do you do with old laptops that are still nice but not fast enough.  We had found a use for Daddy's old laptop.

Not to bad to be three and five and have a laptop to "work" on....

pbskids.com and nickjr.com have really fun activities and games.  Kurt is really good with the mouse and Luke enjoys watching.   

Yummy fall...

Fall time in our family brings birthdays, football, playing in the leaves, hiking in the cool air, and fishing. Fall time also brings all the yummy fall foods like..... apple cider hot or cold, apple cider doughnuts, carmel apples, apples pies. pumpkin pies, the list can go on and on.....We love fall for many reasons....

Just because....

Just because it's so funny I have to share the rest of the pictures of Rick and Uncle Paul playing with the big tube....

pictures by Amanda Volpe

Evans Orchard....

On Sunday before we headed back to Columbus.  We went to a apple/pumpkin farm.  It had a kids area with a big slide, sandbox full of corn, tractor ride, big tires to play on and rolling around in.  It had a petting zoo area, pony rides, and hayride.  The food was also so very good like kettle corn popcorn, funnel cakes, apple cider donuts, and the best apple cider slush.  So good I wish I had one right now!!!! Thank you Uncle Paul and Aunt Amanda for taking us to this really cool place....

Kurt

Luke

Daddy

Luke and his pony

Look mom "no hands"

The little boys

The big boys

hey don't drink our apple cider slushiesUncle Paul

Pictures by Amanda Volpe...

Family Picture 2011

The Ladies....

Nana and the boys

Silly Picture with Mom...

My Boys...My Heart...

Brothers.....

Molly 4 yrs

Luke 3 yrs

Kurt 5 yrs

My love.....My best friend...

Our family....

Mom and her babies....

Paul, Mom and soon to be daughter-in-law Aunt Amanda

Our favorite family picture..

Fun in the Fall...

Thanks to the great eye of my soon to be sister-in-law Amanda and her brother-in-law Neil, we have beautiful family pictures. We are so grateful for all the good pictures and the fun we had taking them.  Thank you so much Amanda and Neil.