Halloween

We had a great year for pumpkins this year in our garden.  It worked out well that we had 3 large ones for each one of them to carve.  They all picked out their own faces, and Jesse and I helped them carve them.  Kora was digging in and cleaning out the inwards just like Megan and Jason. 

 

 

 

For their costumes, Jason is a phantom with eyes that glow red. 

Megan is a dragon ninja, and Kora is Princess  Belle.

It was raining on Halloween night, so we thought we would mostly stay at the indoor parties, but when we did stop at a few places for Trick-or-Treating, they all wanted to keep going and do more.  Luckily, we timed it well and were out when it wasn't raining as much.   

Pumpkin Patch

 

We went to a Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze in Minot, ND on October 17.  The weather was much cooler, so Megan, Jason, and their cousin Jakob had fun climbing on all the straw bales and going down the slides.  Kora liked the barrel ride and smaller slides.     

 

With cousins Jakob and Jordin.  

Corn Maze

We went to a corn maze on Sunday, October 11.  They had fun going through the maze, but since it was so hot, they were ready to be done before we made it to the end.  Who would have thought it would be 89 degrees in October.  They also liked the corn box and spider net. 

 

Megan and Jason were working on their American Ninja Warrior skills. 

 

Jason didn't want to get out of the corn.  He said it was cooler there.

4th Birthday

Kora turned 4 on October 4th.  She had to have a Princess theme for her party.  No other theme would fit her.  I made her a princess castle cake, and she wanted to wear a tiara.

 

We played a "Tangled" princess game where the kids would wrap each other in

crepe streamers.  They all had a lot of fun with it, even Megan and Jason. 

Jason wrapped Jakob.

Kora was wrapped by Megan.

Jakob and Kora had some help wrapping Megan and Jason.

 

Jason had fun playing in the left-over streamers. 

He's pretending to be a rock-star using Kora's toy guitar. 

Zoo with the Cousins

Over Labor Day weekend, we went to the Roosevelt zoo with cousins Jakob and Jordin.  We hadn't been to a zoo for a couple years, so Kora didn't remember what they were like.  She couldn't wait to see the lions, but she was nervous seeing them until we explained that they would be in cages. Once there, she kept talking to the lions, hoping that they would roar, but they didn't.  She was a little disappointed that the animals wouldn't make noise back to her when she said hello to them.

 

 

Summer Fun and swimming

Megan and Kora outside our home.

 

Jason and Kora at Old Mill State Park

 



Kora swimming at Old Mill State Park

Jason, Kora, and I went to Old Mill State Park on 8/30/15

while Megan was fishing with Jesse

Bear Visitor

We had another bear go through our back yard a few nights ago.  He got caught on the trail camera.  All he did was knock the salt block off the stump.  Thankfully, he left our garden alone.  A couple years ago, another bear had fun eating our watermelon.