Our Pumpkin Carving Tradition

We have a tradition that the Monday night before Halloween we carve pumpkins for Family Home Evening. The kids love to help clean out the pumpkins, Tanner kept saying "Mom this is gross!" with a big smile on his face.
Then Tony and I but mostly Tony carves the design. Each year Tony tries to do something innovative and he is getting really good. Last year he did Spongebob and that was a big hit, so this year he found out how to do faces of people. He took a picture of Tylin and Tanner and put it on a pumpkin. I was amazed, it turned out really well.
After we carved pumpkins we had hot apple cider and pumpkin bread. It was a really fun night. The kids are getting excited to dress up for Halloween, Ty is going to be a mermaid, complete with pink hair, and Tanner is going to be a pirate. He has been practicing his pirate talk, Arrrgh. I love this time of year and look forward to the Holiday Season.

A Fun Camping Weekend

We got a new trailer a couple of weeks ago and decided we needed to test it out before it got too cold. So we loaded up and went to Twin Lakes for the weekend. After years and years of tent camping I have to say the trailer was awesome!
We camped near the lake so the we fished and played by the lake.
There were also some neat trails, so we did some hiking too. It did rain some but it didn't bother us we just played games in the trailer, it was a lot of fun! It was a great end of summer trip.