Life Lately (in photos)

This weekend was the annual Pumpkin Pitch/Harvest Festival. Our community just started putting this event in the last five years and it is so much fun! There are tons of free children's activities and a pumpkin pitching contest. What is that?  Well, basically teams prepare all year and have huge tre buchets(catapults) that are pretty impressive and high tech. Not just anyone can enter this....you have to have the money, the time and the resources for one of these babies.

Basically they just pitch the pumpkins and see who's goes the furthest. The first year the calculations were a bit off and let's just say that people's houses were hit....quite a ways away.

This year when some pumpkins splattered, pieces flew into the crowd and hit people. :(

But, all in all, it is fun to see them fly!

Who needs a stroller when Grandpa is around?!

We took a hay ride

We made Zucchini/pumpkin cars....

and then we raced them. Too bad we broke an axle!

I just love this picture because she let me do her hair!

Saturday was a warm, sunny day and didn't feel like Fall one bit! It is still hard to believe that it is October!

Here are a few more things we have been up to:

We made a trip to a local feeding station for the herds of elk. Since it is mating season we figured we would see some. We saw close to 40! The kids LOVED it!

I did a little bit of Halloween decorating. Thank you Dollar Tree! I plan on making a spider web wreath today. Pics to come soon (if it turns out, of course).

I felt especially crafty the other day when Jaxson and I made a felt board. This is something I had been wanting to do for some time. I think I ended up making close to 20 pieces for the board, so far. It is slow going...especially if you lack in the drawing dept! I can't wait to add more pieces to our collection. The best part was that it was .99 for the board and all the felt was on sale at JoAnnes so the project cost under $5.00 total!


What have you all been up to?