Pumpkin Carving

We had a fun pumpkin carving session with the kids!  They picked a Frankenstein design online, and collaborated very well with each other on bringing their vision to fruition.  Abbey really enjoyed being in charge of cleaning the seeds out, as she was too little to work the knife.  She's developed a pumpkin fascination that continues on today (I'm writing this three months after the fact).  These pictures are out of order, but it is too much work to fix that, so here you go:

Pumpkin Patch Kids

We visited another orchard on a Sunday afternoon to bring home 40 more lbs of apples!  And I got these cute pictures of the kids:

Miscellaneous Fall Fun

Abbey-ca-dabbey

 

Excited boys waiting for Papa to take them to Jokers

 

 One of Abbey's favorite ballet ensembles

Abbey and Gigi swinging while they boys played soccer



Sliding down the stairs

Happy to be on the train

Josiah is a good big brother :)

Rigging up a home-made cider press

Small Group Cider Making and Moving the Thompsens

We made cider at James' and Esther's house with our small group (Amy and the Bucks were there also).  BEST cider ever!!!  And so much fun.

The kiddos got washing duty.

 

James and Graham inspecting the equipment.

Graham, Becky and Amy monitoring the kiddos.

 

Our boys were very impressed.

Yum!

On Columbus Day, we went over to Bowdoinham to help the Thompsons load up for their move to VA.  There were several families there, with a swarm of children having a blast together!

We miss Patrick and Brooke!  They're such a fun couple.

Cuties Toula and Macy

Abbey graciously shared her toys. :)

John and Danielle's little Asher can already pass the football like a pro!

Sophie, Olivia, Quinn, Josiah and Ben