Third Person: November 2013

October flew by with lots of school field trips for Genevieve, parties for both kids, and prepping for Halloween of course.

We hit up two pumpkin farms this year. The first early in October with the Bansemars. GG had her first sleepover at a friend's house for Alana's birthday (big girls!!) and we met up the next morning to go collect some pumpkins and enjoy the farm.

It took a while to get everyone out of the cars and situated but we headed in and made our first stop at some of the animal pens. Which turned out to be a huge mistake. The girls went to check out the turkeys and they declared that they were too stinky. Matt and Luke were right behind. Up came a big gust of wind and they were smacked with a little eau de Bird, which didn't sit well with young Maio. He turned away and without hesitating just hurled ALL over the ground. Being the superb parents we are we about died laughing. Fortunately it was a warm day so we peeled off his jacket and quickly made our way to the tractor. Much better.

the girls at ground zero

post hurl and ready for tractor fun

off to find the great pumpkin! lukie kept saying, "i lite DAT one! i lite DAT one!"

women on a mission

two silly pumpkins

baby pumpkins

A couple weekends later we hit up another farm with the Willes. It's starting to turn into a little tradition to get together with them this time of year which is very fun for all involved. This time it was freezing out so thankfully there was no horking - we did not have layers to spare. But there was a great corn maze, silly cut outs, and of course the tractor rides. In going through these pics I discovered I don't have any shots of the littlest Wille, which is criminal because she is the CUTEST. Erin, remind me next year!

lovely lasses

spooky

this farm has a bunch of silly toys and luke thought he was the coolest on this horse

huddling together for warmth

do we not feed you?

found our winners

i lite DIS one!

erin made dan get a bunch of corn stalks. he practically disappeared into the horizon, which was only half as entertaining as watching him get it on their car

With all these pumpkins, it was time for some serious carving. The two-night extravaganza was really cute as both the kids were totally into it. Luke continued on his chat a thon yelling "I lite PUN-TINS!" with quite a bit of enthusiasm. I think he got it.

what is this one's face?

sillies

this year's spooky collection. ralphie is my favorite.

proud of all 'their' creations

One thing both kids were old hands at this year was trick or treating. Our Princess (Wisconsin princesses wear hats under their tiaras, leggings, and boots, dont'cha know?) and firefighter made a HAUL this year. GG walked almost the entire time and Luke had basically no interest in riding in the wagon. Matt and I had a dinner event for his work that night so we had to bug out early, but Grandma and Grandpa Maio were on hand to keep the candy collection on track. I finally threw out the rest of the candy the other day...I couldn't take seeing those stupid buckets sitting on the counters anymore. And it's possible that I was struggling to keep my own hand out of the goodies. Possible.