Pumpkin Carving

Today we carved our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch. Hannah was very particular about cleaning.
Hannah was intrigued with the pumpkin guts. She refused to stick her hand in the pumpkin. Every time she did, she wanted to immediately wash the slime off. She is obviously her fathers child!

While attempting to get a picture of daddy and Hannah, someone decided to hang the pumpkin guts over her head. Quite a funny exchange. Hannah was worried that they were going to end up in her hair. It was a legit worry since some of them did.

We drew a triangle, circle, square, and diamond on a piece of paper and let her pick out the type of eyes and nose she wanted on her pumpkin. We then drew four different types of mouths and let her pick the one she liked the most. Of course, my carving was "close" to what she picked out, but she was happy anyway.
After a thorough cleaning, we could finally call our pumpkin finished. She is so proud of her "BIG" pumpkin.
We took all of our pumpkins out on the porch for a picture. After fifteen minutes of attempted poses, I was finally able to catch Hannah looking at the camera with the pumpkins not tipped. I guess you can't get mad at her for being excited about the pumpkins.

When all was said and done, our little family of pumpkins turned out very cute. Hannah and I just went for broke on our carving while dad had an epic battle carving his. Nonetheless it was a very enjoyable evening. We can't wait to buy candles and see how they illuminate our porch.

Halloween Party

This last Saturday was our school's Halloween party. Hannah was pretty set on being Scooby Doo for Halloween (surprise surprise). The day of the party the four of us were still undecided what we were going to be. At the last second (1:00 pm day of) we decided to be the Mystery INC gang. We went store to store shopping for the perfect outfits. Ironically, the first store we went into we found the hideous pants that make up Fred's outfit. They were PERFECT! A couple other wigs, three cans of orange hair spray and a little leg and we had our outfits. Amazing how things work sometimes. Needless to say, our costumes were a huge hit. Of course Scooby stole the show, not surprising though.

Pumpkin Hunting

Yesterday we went to the local pumpkin patch with Hannah. We thought it would be fun for her to pick out her own pumpkin. When we entered the patch, there were more pumpkins than she knew what to do with.

As we walked threw the corn stalk entrance, she told us that she wanted a "BIG" one. After trying to pick one up the size of her, she decided that a "BIG" one wasn't as cool as she thought it was.
After attempting to pick up at least a dozen other "BIG" ones (each smaller than the one before it), she found the perfect "BIG" one. It was just her size and she was so proud of it. We left with three pumpkins in all, one for each of us. It should be fun to carve as a family.
On our way out, there was a small kids hay maze. She worked her way in just fine, but had difficulties finding her way out. Of course Ed and I could look in and see her at all times. With a little help from mom, she was able to make her way out successfully.

Rock Collecting at Kelly Canyon/Heise Hot Springs

On October 3, we went to the Heise Hot Springs/ Kelly Canyon area to collect rocks for Grandma SiRan and Papa Dale's yard. It was rather impressive how many rocks there were all over the place. It was about a 75 foot rock slide, Hannah and I made it up about 25 feet before we started sliding down backwards. It was scary, especially since the rocks created a massive land slide. So, we decided to head back to the bottom and explore the area instead.



This first picture is of Hannah finding a beautiful rock. Not sure how it was different from the rest, but it was the one she wanted.

After collecting rocks for five minutes, our attention shifted to throwing the rocks rather than collecting them. Even with her small tosses, the rocks would break in pieces. She loved to see them break.
About fifty feet from where they were collecting rocks, there was a huge rock cliff. Hannah is sitting on the edge about a foot and a half off the ground. It almost looks like she is just floating there. The only bad thing about this place is that there was broken glass all over the place. Kind of sad really.


Right near the big rock cliff was a small little creek that ran out of some ranchers property. The sound of the little trickle was quite relaxing. Hannah thought it would be good to throw rocks in instead. Oh well, at least she was having fun.

Lastly we walked across the road and found a small secluded grove. It was down a small creek bank and over the creek. It was quite a beautiful place to take pictures. Of course, she is always ready for a photo opportunity.
On the other side of the grove, there were still green leaves on some of the trees. Here the trees branches hung down like whips slightly blowing in the breeze. Hannah was quite intrigued with with the way it blew in the wind.
Before we left, we needed to get one more photo on the rock slide. Getting Hannah to look at the camera instead of throwing the rocks was almost impossible. Needless to say, she crashed the second we arrived home. Too much fun for one day.