Halloween Train

On the Saturday before Halloween we took the girls on the Snoqualmie Halloween Train. They got to wear their costumes and ride the decorated train.

They got spider rings.

Sisters.

Me and my cute girls.

Here is the conductor. He was pretty funny.

Going over one of the bridges across Snoqualmie River.

Silly ghost faces.

The girls had so much fun wearing thier costumes and running around by the train.

Here is Hannah hiding behind the totem pole. She would jump out to scare people and shout "Boo!" then laugh and say "ha-ha! It's only Hannah!".

One of the local bakeries offered free sugar cookies when you showed them your Halloween train ticket.

It was so fun! Hooray for the Halloween train!

Finally Halloween Costumes!

Here are the pictures from Halloween night. Finally. I am going to back-blog a bit after this post because there are more halloween type posts that I don't want to leave out. But for now, here are the girls at our ward Trunk or Treat event.

My Mom and I made Hannah's costume (mostly my mom, but I helped, too). Hannah loved it even though everyone thought she was a beautiful angel, or a princess, or a winter fairy. She's a ghost people. And she told them so, too. "I'm a scary ghost! Boo-oo-oooo!"
Hannah tried to eat Rachel's donut. She was unsuccessful.
I didn't get any pictures of the actual trick or treating (bummer!) but here are our pumpkins.

Dan's pumpkin. Now Rachel recognizes Homer.
This is Hannah's pumpkin (pumpkin carving post to come soon).

All the pumpkins together.

Stay tuned for more Halloween posts.

Happy Halloween

Hope your day was spooky!

Field Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

A few weeks ago Hannah got to go on a field trip to a "pumpkin patch" with her preschool class. Rachel and I got to go with her.

We got to class a little bit early so we collected leaves.

We walked a few blocks to the community center.
I have to say this was the saddest excuse for a pumpkin patch I've ever seen, but the kids loved it, so I guess that's ok.

The class gathered around this purple plastic kiddie pool and covered their eyes while the teacher hid the pumpkins under the hay.

They each got a turn to find a pumpkin. Hannah was the last one to take her turn, and there were no pumpkins left because one of the siblings had taken one. She was so sad! Of course, Mrs. Miller got the pumpkin and hid it while Hannah closed her eyes again.

Hannah was happy once she had her pumpkin.

The kids put thier pumpkins in the wagon and then sang some Halloween songs.

Here is the class with their pumpkins.

On the way back to class Hannah didn't want to be my walking partner. Mrs. Miller let Hannah walk with her. Hannah is holding hands with her friend, Bella.

Harvest Festival

On my Mom's last day here it rained. We went to the Harvest Festival at Kelsey Creek Farm in Bellevue.

Seeing the chickens.

Seeing the cows.

They had a pretend cow that you could milk. The girls gave it a try.

While Dan waited in line for the ponies we played in the park (thanks, Dan).

Here are the girls riding the ponies.

The girls really liked the corn maze.

Hannah and Nana.

Rachel likes to do everything that Hannah does.

Here we are on the hay ride.

Daddy and HannahMe and Josh and Karissa.

Daddy and Rachel

Hannah and Nana

They had a little wagon train that the girls loved. It was pulled by a tractor around the farm.

After the festval we went to lunch before Nana had to go to the airport. We were so sad to see her go, but we are excited to visit her again in a few weeks! Love you, Mom! Thanks for all the fun memories.

Train Park with Nana

We had some nice weather and took the girls to the park in their wagon.

Swinging

Sharing acorns with Nana.

On the way home we stopped and got some yummy cupcakes.