Ghosts, and gobblins, and witches, Oh my!

In early October the boys were able to make a nice visit back to PA with my dad. Tim, Kyle and I drove the boys to Atlanta and met my dad who them took them back to PA for a long weekend. It was a whirlwind trip for them, but they loved riding their 4-wheelers and seeing their cousins Reese and Hank, as well as their buddy James. Not enough time to fit everyone in during this visit, but they had a great time!

Above is Chase and Kyle passed out in the car on the way to Atlanta. Only an hour drive for us, so I knew my dad was in for a long night of driving with 2 anxious boys in the car!

Here are the boys with Hames on their 4-wheelers during their trip. They just love the great outdoors!
It snowed while the boys were in Pennsylvania also. This was the first official snow fall of the year and it came in early October!  Somewhere I have a very sweet picture of the boys outside in the snow in their underwear. If I could find it in the depths of my hard drive I would post it. Alas it is not meant to be. Ian and Chase would probably harm me in my sleep if I did post it anyway!

On October 3rd Tim, the boys, and I visited the Cotton Pickin Festival in Gay, Georiga. What an adorable town it is and such a scenic drive from LaGrange! We had a very nice time. It was very family oriented with a lot of activities for the kids to do and some great food as well!

Here is Chase tackling the rock climbing wall.

Really though, the only difference between a festival in Georgia and one back home is the food and the music.  Here they serve a lot of biscuits and gravy and fried chicken, and back home they serve a lot of peirogies and monkey bread!

This is a picture of one of the many bands that played for the crowds.

And of course in October there was Halloween! Down here in the south Halloween is not such a big deal. The schools don't have Halloween parades or parties. There is trick or treating in various neighborhoods. But the trick or treating we attended was the one put on by the local businesses on the square downtown LaGrange. Our church, FLF, also participated. I honestly did not get any good pictures of the boys in their costumes. Ian was "Jason" and Chase was a pirate again this year. This year was the first time since the kiddos were born that we were able to do costumes on the cheap!  Below is a picture of the girls from church, Deena, Tracie, and Judy handing out candy downtown.

We also had a lot of fun carving pumpkins before Halloween. This year I enlisted Tim to help with some non-traditional, "designer" pumpkins. He's so good at that kind of stuff and they turned out AWESOME! Just how I pictured them (or copied them from Country Living magazine, lol!)

 

 

 

 

Izzy was a big fan of the pumpkins as well!

Throughout October we continued work on the Ritzy Roost. Getting it ready for the big opening on November 1st!  It is now up and running full steam ahead! It looks amazing! Check it out at www.theritzyroost.com