Pumpkin Gutting

 Yes, Kellen is wearing a tutu.  

Pumpkin carving is always a production over here!  The kids all go around drawing pictures of how they want Dad to carve our pumpkin and the discussion and picking is tough.  Nealy was not thrilled with the outcome, she prefers a happier jack-o-lantern!  Next year we may have to do more than one pumpkin.  This year we carved one, and the kids painted their own as well.

Slim Pickings!

 We finally made it to the pumpkin patch with just days to spare!  The pickings were slim, but we managed to find a good pumpkin for carving.  We also enjoyed a hay-less hayride, farm toys, a corn maze and family time!  

Color Running

 11 clean kids!

 They were excited! Especially Nealy!

 MaeMae put her tattoo on where no one could miss it!

 Bubba was ready for anything!

 The Mom and Dad were mostly awake...rough morning without coffee!

All the 2nd graders!

 Dancing to the music at the starting line!

 Daddy and the littles after the first two colors...they weren't so sure about people throwing color at them!

 This guy was loving it...at one point we were running together and he told me to "pick up the pace mom".  real nice huh?

 The Dirty (almost) dozen

 We were covered!   Only made worse by the drizzle!

 Poor old stroller, it's been through so much!  (but cleaned up nicely!)

 I'm really not sure what happened...she got dirtier AFTER the race ended!

We had such a great time during our first Color Run 5k!  The kids did great, Nealy and Aidan finished all on their own!  Maeve was in and out of the stroller, but almost got trampled once!  Kellen was along for the ride!  The kids are asking to do it again!  We were able to meet up with a group of friends from school, they all were so good!