We carved pumpkins the Thursday before Halloween. The boys worked on their own designing and cutting. They are not big fans of scooping out the guts, so Mom and Dad were given the honors. Laken, on the other hand, loved digging in the guts. She wanted to carve the pumpkin herself, too, as she is big into doing things herself. As you can see in the picture of all the pumpkins her pumpkin has no face. She just poked a bunch of holes in it.

We, also, hosted a morning Halloween Party for some neighbors and kids. We had an oatmeal table. Our neighbor, Landon, is demonstrating that it is safe to play and eat from it, too. We had ghost footprint crafts, painting a pumpkin and decorating cookie stations for the kids. It was a fun way to pass the time until the big trick or treat.

Later, that night Brad took the kids treat or treating along with our neighbors the Jacobson's. He said the boys just sprinted from door to door. They made out like bandits as usual. It was my turn to hand out candy. We didn't have as many trick or treaters as previous years, but as soon as the boys arrived home the took over my duties and loved it! (You'll find all the pictures below due to technical difficulty.)

Halloween Photos

Halloween Party

The young jedi's were making sure the galaxy was protected from the evil empire and a young dancing princess named sleeping beauty/Laker Baker was bouncing around making the world a better place.

Seen here at a halloween party at Nick Lewis' house in Owatonna. One of the featured events was the search for the Boo Log. Boo is Nick's dog's name, so we were a little worried about what this log was made of. In the end it was a wood log and the kids had fun finding it.

The bouncing castle was a huge hit for our Jedi's and princess as well as the other kids in attendance. Heidi thinks the bouncing castle would be a great gift for the grandparents to buy!

Baby Constance Elizabeth!

On the way home from Ohio we were able to stop by the Kleven's house in Eleva, to meet our new niece and cousin, Constance Elizabeth. She was born on October 17th, weighed in at 7lbs 6oz and 20 inches long. Laken was able to hold the baby. Big Sister Madeline was very excited to have cousins visit.

Ohio Trip

Heidi's godson Tyler Feine and his family lives in Amelia, OH. We drove out there on Oct. 16th in the Meier family van. The kids took the 12 hour drive very well! While in Ohio we walked across the Ohio River on an amazing blue bridge...Braeden was a little freaked out by how high up we were. We went from the Kentucky side of the river to Ohio side, once in Ohio we went to a playground located under the bridge.

We also went to the children's museum located in an old train station. One of the photo's in the slideshow shows Heidi and the kids in front of the huge building. Besides spending a lot of time playing in the museum, we also took the kids to a omni theatre movie about the grand canyon and the shrinking of the Colorado River.

Of course the big reason we drove out to Ohio-Tyler Feine's football game on Friday night. Tyler is the quarterback for Amelia High School. It was a beautiful fall evening for the game and despite a loss, we had fun watching the game. Afterwards we joined Steve & Rochelle Feine and some other football parents at Buffalo Wild Wings for a post game treat.

The Cincinatti Zoo on Saturday was a big hit. We should've brought Halloween outfits, because there were like a million kids there all dressed up. However there were treats given to the kids at stops through out the zoo, which kept their nurishment up. This was a big zoo and had some awesome stuff...but the funniest part was when the rhino (pictured) shot his pee on some unexpecting spectators.

On the ride home we stopped at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway-it is a huge race track and next time we're out there we are going to do the full tour.