Happy Halloween!

As usual we have way to many pumpkins considering we don't even have a porch to place them on. 

 Jacob had 3 different costumes this year. Here is in a monkey costume.

Alex was also 2 different people this year. As per last year, he was Mario. 

Jacob followed after his older brothers and wore the infamous Yoda costume. 

Jonathan's first costume was Mr. Incredible. Here is waiting for trick or treating at the high school. It snowed 6 inches the day before and was mighty cold. 

We went to the mall to trick or treat with some friends. Here Jonathan is a mad scientist which was also Alex's second costume for a previous event. The mall was a madhouse considering half of Massachusetts is still out of power from the big snow storm a couple days ago. 

Here is the gang for Halloween night. We went with our friends the Cotters just like last year. 

Pumpkin Patch And Apple Picking

 It has been such a beautiful October. We are right before Halloween now so I thought it was high time we made it to a pumpkin patch. As always we played on the hay maze. The boys had a great time and gave me some great smiles.

I was surprised to get two group shots that turned out decent.

 Jacob really took to the apple picking. He would pick one, take a bite, drop it and then pick another. I had to sit him in the wagon with just one so he would waste to many. The older boys ate 2 or 3 whole ones each and we left with many to make into apple muffins.

 

Once at home we had to do some pumpkin painting. I didn't want to cut them since we have several more days until Halloween. No need to let them rot in our apartment. 

Soccer in October

October has been filled with school and soccer. We all go to the games and it is lots of fun. Since Alex is on the big field this year it is a little more exciting. He has gotten much better, more aggressive and when he goes to do something most of the time he actually does it. Here are some shots of a Friday evening on the field.

Jonathan plays Saturday morning. We all are there cheering him on. 

He is a kidder.

The Beach in the Fall!

It is way hard to believe but today it was 90 degrees out. I quickly packed the kids up, the beach toys, a picnic and headed to the beach. It is not all that hard to take 3 kids to the beach for 6 hours. They are kept so busy it is amazing. This was one of the best days of the "summer". We had so much fun. Of course, it is off season so we went to the uber expensive beach for free and of course, the facilities were closed. At one point I had to dig a hole in the sand for Alex. Yuck! 

Apple Picking

Uncle Don and soon to be Aunt Brigid came for a visit on their way to New York. Brigid was very excited to do some apple picking now that she is living in the northeast. We took them to our favorite place Parlee Farms. 

The Hay Maze was up so the boys spent lots of time running around on it. 

We got to feed to goats. A trip to the farm would not be the same without it. 

Finally we made it out to the fields. We picked over 30 lbs of apples. It is a good thing I gave half of them to Don and Brigid or we would really be up to our eyeballs in apple sauce and apple bread. 

Jacob loved the apples. He chewed through about 3 before we realized he could reach the bag. 

Thanks for visit Don and Brigid. We had fun.