I Think I'm Ready for Halloween to be Over...

And here's why. Our week began, you may remember, with my perhaps ill-conceived, or poorly executed, but still pretty fun Halloween party last week. You can read more about this brave? foolish? undertaking here:. Tonight, as I write this, it's one week later, and we have participated in six separate Halloween related events since the party (and not including the party!). I am tired. But if you have any energy left from your own holiday labors, please, keep reading.

The day before our Halloween party we went to O'Reilly's Summer Farm to get our pumpkins. The visit was stop #1 on a crazed, five stop outing with the kids. We had about 40 minutes to get the pumpkins before we traveled to Jacob's flag football practice, during which Casey and I did some drive-by shopping at Gap Kids. After our shopping spree we took a traffic-icky drive to IKEA to get some furniture for our upcoming guests (we can't wait, Nana/Papa!). After our trip to IKEA we sped back to Pittsburgh to get the kids to their 4:00 PM haircut appointment. Wow, I'm tired just recounting that day. And that was the day BEFORE our Halloween party!

In any case, we got some cute pictures at the pumpkin farm. We had wanted to go on a proper hay ride, to pick our pumpkins from the field. But with our truncated time frame the only ride Casey got was in the bottom of the shopping cart!


Jacob kept his humor up---and shows here that he's learned how to wink!


Here is what a real hay ride looks like.


Oh, well, as you are about to see, it's not like we gave Halloween short shrift this year!