All Things "Fall"

We have done so much during this wonderful Fall season that pictures have been accumulating like crazy...

It all started when my mom came to visit during mid-October. Aside from plenty of thrift store shopping and yard sale scavenging, we took some time out to make some caramel apples! Yum! It was my mom's first time making them so she had a great time!

Even after my mom left back to California, we still wanted to keep the Fall fun going so we took the kids to a community Halloween party...one that we wouldn't soon forget...

It was held on someone's huge chunk of property next to their large, and very lovely home:

Now this wasn't your average Halloween party for 2 reasons: 1)Skydivers and 2) Candy being dumped out of airplanes! FUN!!

We were instructed to be there promptly at 6:00pm if not a bit earlier since the skydivers would be jumping at about that time. It was even more fun to see that the skydivers were Spiderman and Captain America!

I love this pose of Captain America! So heroic!

 

And after these amazing skydivers did their part, everyone quickly gathered in the center of the field to wait for the planes that were about to dump barrel-fulls of candy on the crowd!  The anticipation was so exciting!

Even Spiderman likes candy....

Here it comes.....all the candy being dumped out of the plane:

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The plane made several passes and all the kids had a great time. We have never gotten to experience anything like this, so we were very fortunate to be able to attend such a neat Halloween event.

Aaron and Sunny had a blast...well, mainly Aaron...I think Sunny was just trying to figure out why she was dressed like this:

My little Angry Birds!

Later on that evening we went home to finish out our Family Home Evening and did some good ol' fashioned pumpkin carving. And this was another first for us since Aaron had never carved a pumpkin before. So with a little help from mom, he slowly turned this pumpkin into a Jack-O-lantern. While me and Aaron carved pumpkins, Matt went off to the kitchen to go make us some brownies!

And yes, we baked up all those seeds!

So proud of his pumpkin, and even more proud after it was lit inside with a candle....

After pumpkin carving we got to sit down as a family with our bowl of freshly baked pumpkin seeds and bowls of brownies with ice cream and watch Hocus Pocus! Aside from the caramel apples, everything else was all done in the same evening! It was a great ending to a great day! We love fall!