Halloween Family Fun Day 2011!

Our yearly tradition continues...

Fun and ice cream in hell, michigan.

And then ON TO THE PUMPKIN PATCH.

The pumpkin patch we go to is a small family farm, not very well known.
We are usually the only ones there.

You just grab a wagon and hike out to their garden pumpkin patch back behind the house.
They decorate the path to the pumpkin patch really cute with lots of fun Halloween decorations for the kids.
Wyatt especially loved this Winnie The Pooh tea party.

All that's left to do is pick your pumpkins

 

 

 

 

In our search for that perfect pumpkin, we found a little something we didn't expect....

Meet "Pumpkin Seed", the mouse.
(seemed an appropriate name)

She was just a baby mouse, and barely alive.  The kids fell in love, and to tell you the truth I really didn't expect her to live the trip home, but we took her home to see if she would get better.

 

 

 

The kids were so happy.
We had found pumpkins, and a new "pet".  Haha.

 Pumpkin Seed actually perked up quite a bit on the way home, and lived for 2 days with us.
She seemed to make a quick recovery and was doing really well. She ran around and jumped all over the place.  I began to think she really would make a full recovery.
We made her a little home in the old aquarium tank from Jason's college pet gecko, Draco.
Josh even made some lego obstacles for her to climb, and this sweet lego car.
We fed her with an eye dropper, she was too young to eat on her own.

The poor little thing only lived for 2 days, then passed away.  We think she was just too young to be on her own, and she really was not well when we found her.
The kids were sad, but they felt good about giving her 2 more days of a warm and happy place to live, and they had a lot of fun playing with her.

Nature Walk

Josh had a nature walk at school back in october,

and Claire and Wyatt wanted to go on one too,

so we had a little outing of our own!

Claire learned a lot about the seasons changing and why trees drop their leaves for the winter. 

She still brings it up all the time on her own! :)

 

Wyatt at least understood that the trees are getting ready to go to sleep for the winter!



I caught this picture right as she was about to blow a wish fluff!

 

"Expelliarmus!"

 

Here is our day's collection!!



And a super creepy tree!!!

 

Can you see the face?

When we got home we created some fun fall artwork!

The kids have a cool book that shows how to make people and animals from collected leaves. 

We made a few of our own!

I just love fall days like this!