Festive October!!

So much has happened this last month, or rather, these last couple of weeks. Even though we try to keep things to a minimum with our "extra-curricular" activities, we are still very involved and always "feel" busy. Of course, October brings its autumn colors and festivities, so we did not want to miss out on the fun. Although our plans to visit a local pumpkin patch were foiled a couple of times (due to foul conditions--one of which was the blustery weather and another a wave of our "sweet" girl's ugly behavior en route to our destination), we did not miss the opportunity to carve jack-o-lanterns with our friends.

Eating the seeds was one of the best parts!


Unfortunately, we still do not have the pictures of our final project...they were rather cute little pumpkins!!






The most significant of events was our little cub celebrating his first birthday on the 29th! Wow...a whole year has gone by already. Seriously, when you have children, the time starts going by at warp speed!!
We celebrated his big milestone birthday with a Yeehaw cowboy round 'em up party...lots of little people were there with their families. It was too cute seeing all of them dressed in their cowboy western attire!

The cowboy birthday theme worked well for our Halloween dress-up...we ended up with the best-in-the-west cow-poke pair! We first took her to trick-or-treat to 3 neighbor houses, and then stopped by our dear friends' house across town--where we ended up staying for the next 2 hours! It was so much fun! Aunt Jani and Uncle Den were way more fun than any carnival in
town!!