Thursday we met the fam downtown where all of the museums had Halloween activities, decorations, and candy for the kids! Oh, and you got in free! Plus if you visited six museums and got stamps, you got entered for a grand prize. Still waiting to hear we lost...

Yep I'm cool.

Just a little walking around the Heifer Village.

In the Candy Land decorations at the Clinton Presidential Library.

With the creepy decorations at the Old State House Museum.

Trying his first Twinkie at the Historic Arkansas Museum.

Checking out the decorations at the Mosaic Templar Museum.

Also, I made that shirt, because I couldn't find
any cute boy Halloween shirts! None!

Friday morning we headed north to a
pumpkin patch about 45 minutes away.

Jake drove the tractor barrel.

We were corn.

Then we were pumpkins.

And Jake was a scarecrow.

They had a huge corn maze!
We just walked around the front of it though.

Hey! There's corn in here!

Just chillin' in the corn. Lookin' cute.

With a pumpkin that could really use some clearasil.

Happy Halloween!

With the big pile of pumpkins up front.

That cow was very interested in Jake's shoe.

So we headed over to get on the hay ride out to the pumpkin patch around 11:30. Apparently the last ride had just left before lunch break. The next one was at 1:00 and we hadn't eaten. So we left. Boo!

That night we went to our church carnival. It's HUGE!

We had to park about a mile down the street and ride a bus back.
This was the line for the bus. It took us about 40 minutes.

Jake was so tired of waiting!

At the carnival he got his first glow bracelet.

He was entranced.

Everything was too big for him except
the preschool area, so he slid.

It was getting really cold,
so he finally kept his hat on!

A little delirious when we finally got home late.

Saturday, we headed out to the second pumpkin patch, hoping to actually see pumpkins in a field. We went to the same place I took the boys to pick blueberries this summer.

All I wanted to do was touch a pig. And we did!

That goat is on a roof.

Checking out the pumpkins with Granna.

This picture was cute but extraordinarily bright.
So I black-n-white'd it.

Playin' and droolin' in the corn pit.
So much better than a sand box!

And we're off through the mini hay maze.

Aaaah! Dead end!

Choosing our path...

And we made it!

Yay! We found the pumpkins!

Aaaaaaaaand FLASHBACK:

Jake in the patch last year... 7 months old!
Aaaaaaaaand we're back to present day:

Doing his hilarious new walk through the pumpkin patch.

Doing his muscle pose.
(For real! There are grunts and everything!)

You!

He was annoyed that the tiny ones were still attached.

And then the hay ride!

On the hay ride they had funny scarecrows like this.

And THIS!

Thanks, y'all! We enjoyed it!

Happy Halloween!

This makes me so mad. I was at Target last week and all of the Halloween stuff is hanging from the ceiling... and right along with it is Christmas stuff! I know places like Hallmark have out Christmas ornaments and stuff in July, but putting up ceiling decorations mid-October? Really? Give Thanksgiving a chance!

Jake wanted to help with laundry tonight.

8 Months Old

One Month Old

We got our first little pumpkin. Jake loved it.

I loved our first REALLY little pumpkin because it kind
of looks like an apple. But as you can tell, it's already
rotting around the bottom. Mwah-mwah.

While looking for a pumpkin, I found this one that
had apparently been stepped on by a woodland creature.

And then there was the big porch pumpkin.

Right after I took this, Jake pushed it off
the porch and the stem broke off.
Guess I won't be doing this this year. Sad face.

Fall also means Jake gets to start
wearing his new cute long sleeved stuff.
Except that it's been 85 ever since this day.

He has these super cute pajamas that he wore only one night. I took lots of pictures because he barely fit into them, due to fatness of belly and head, and they were kind of itchy.

Fall also means college football.
Which I barely care about, except for A&M.
And see, Jon loves Arkansas. They played each other a few weeks ago, but I was at home alone with Jake, so I got to dress him. :)

He kept walking around saying "baaaaaaaaall".

And HIKE!

And of course Halloween.
Two seconds before this they were both upside down.

And I had my camera on the wrong setting when I took this cute picture, but by the time I changed it, everyone had moved, so this is what you get.