My Favorite Time of Year!

Every October I take the kids out to this little "pumpkin patch" one of the Churches near us has and I let them buy a pumpkin. This year they decided to use their own money to buy EACH of them a pumpkin [because every home needs 5 pumpkins, right?!].

This is one of their favorite events of the year - they just love it so much. Which is kind of funny isn't it? I mean, it takes about 10 minutes LOL!

Here are the pics:



Here is pretty Monkey1 with the pumpkins they selected first.



Here is The Boy with the teeny pumpkin he fell in love with and *almost* bought - then changed his mind to get a big one.



Here is the one he ended up with.



Here are all the Monkeys [except Baby Monkey] on the porch with their pumpkins. Monkey1 is holding Baby Monkeys pumpkin and her own.

You can see Monkey3 up front with her pumpkin - she got a tiny, cute little pumpkin, which is just like her - tiny and cute! ;)



Here are the Monkeys enjoying some time on their [not-evil-any-more] daddy. What do people without 5 kids do to keep warm?



And here is the kid pile on Grumpy too - they LOVE to lay all over their Grandfather when he comes to visit!



Here are two of my children who actually wear clothes in our back yard. :) I am having a terrible problem keeping clothes on Monkey4. [And I have lots of pictures of this naked feral child in our backyard, but I won't post them on the internet!]. How do you keep clothes on one like her? I have NEVER had a child so resistant to clothing. Hopefully it will get cold soon and then she'll stop taking them off just out of self preservation. Otherwise I'm about to start drawing clothes on her with a sharpie - at least she couldn't pull them off! ;)



Monkey1 LOVES to make "funny hair" on Monkey4 while they get a bath. She comes up with some pretty funny stuff!