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Pumpkin Time

We carved pumpkins the other day with our friends the Harris family. Daniel LOVED it. He loved scooping out the guts and he loved having friends over. We didn't have a working printer and didn't like the faces that came with the carving kit so Jason drew one. It was great but then Daniel thought it was much more fun to draw on the pumpkin.





Alice did not think so highly of the pumpkin guts.




This is my favorite room in our house, our kitchen. Alice loves it too.




These are some last memories of us living with Grandma. Daniel and Abby had many a days like this. Abby wanted everything that Daniel had or some days Daniel wanted only what Abby had. This is a good example of the end of one of those days.



This is just an adorable outfit on an adorable little girl.



One day we will be moved in and it will be awesome. Some of Daniel's new things are that he has Jason's old office phone and he calls everyone on it and has pretend conversations for many minutes. It is pretty cute. Alice just really likes trying to crawl. I will try to get some pictures of that soon.

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Josie said…
How fun! I love all the fun festivities this time of year! Your new kitchen looks great! Oh and the kids are cute too. :)
9:39 AM
Megan said…
Looks like a fun time. Anna isn't sure what to think about pumpkin guts. It will be interesting to see the difference with Evan - boys are so different than girls. I love your kitchen too, but you already knew that ;) It was fun hanging out and catching up the other day. We need to do it again.
8:32 PM
Erin said…
Way cute! And I can't believe how big Joel's kids are.
8:56 PM
Becky said…
Finally made my way to the "M"s on my blog list :) I love your kitchen too!!! It's perfect. Let's get together! :)
10:04 AM
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