Mama's little pumkin

Caden got into the holiday spirit for our trip to the pumpkin patch with Logan's class.

Boo! Just Kidding

With Halloween right around the corner, I thought it would be fun to look back at our costumes of years past... wanna know what the plan is for this year? Check back in a few weeks :) UPDATE: Here's 2008

2007 as seen here We were the Frank family, you can't tell from the photo but Frankenstein's Monster is wearing a milk jug on his head that I covered in fake fur. Worked GREAT! 2006 We went completely store bought (I was smart that year!) I did make the shield, foam core board with clipart and lots of glitter. 2005 The Toy Story Family Lots of hot glue held us all together since I don't sew Notice the belt buckles, cardboard covered with foil & paint What you can't see in these pics is the giant pull string attached to "Woody's" back. 2004 Our first attempt at a family theme The Mime FamilyMy devilish brother in law popped into this pic.

more family costume themes

Grandma with her boys

Lego Lego Lego

Logan's Lego Birthday Party was a success! Fifteen of his favorite friends had fun playing Lego bingo, building and racing lego race cars, jumping in the bounce house and making lego masterpieces.

The Lego Cake survived the heat and so did we.

Van Pelt Farms

You may recall my post about our beloved plum tree , now we have a couple more surprises...

A tomato plant adopted us this year, just started growing along side the house. I haven't done a thing to it except prop it up a bit because it was growing out of control. So far we've had one very tasty tomato.

And our citrus tree is finally producing for the first time since we've lived here. About a year ago I thought it was a lime tree because that fruit was green for a long time then about 3-4 months later I though it was a lemon. They were no longer green and they tasted sour. That brings us to today - big, juicy, sweet oranges - they just took a year to get there. Is that normal? If you have any expertise in citrus trees, I'd appreciate your input.

We should be living off the land in no time!