visitors #8

austin's 'rents came to visit!

better known as néenée & pop-pop around our house. they are so fun to have around. they just want to play with the beans all day everyday. :)

they came in on the metro thursday night & the girlies just about died of excitement.

friday they watched the girls for us

while we went the the temple.

the drive up was wonderful & the inside of the dc temple is exquisite.

on getting back, we read a letter from uncle michael while we walked on over to to the neighborhood nursery to pumpkin hunt.

this place had some GREAT signage,

large tunnels, mountains of gourds, chickens & geese to chase,

 901 pound pumpkins,

 & wagons! who doesn't love a good wagon?

 there were multiple attempts for a (meh) family pic.

 & both néenée & me experimenting with our brand new cameras.

 of course the kids suddenly became smiley & wonderful for pictures on the walk back.

which i hate.

we had some of brian & renée's favorite people, bryce & jamie, over for dinner & pumpkin carving.

some prefer to carefully mark out the top of the pumpkin & use the plasticy cutesy baby cutter that comes with the carving kit while others are hardcore rock stars & plunge a steak knife right in. matter of preference. & coolness.

 i got E all naked cause i thought she would just about roll around in the pumpkin guts.

don't ask us why but she thought they were the funniest things she'd ever seen in her whole life. just kept throwing her head back & cackling so hard. weirdo.
it was hilarious.

C, silent as ever, tried to put each stringy piece & every single seed back into the pumpkin. then grabbed the top to put that poor pumpkin back together.

why we were taking it apart was beyond her.

now i'm not gonna lie to ya. this was not super exciting for everyone else. jamie might kill me but i just had to zoom in on this shot. i caught her yawning in the background of like 3 of my pictures. maybe if we'd gotten more pumpkins... we'll let her pick out the next activity. haha :)

it was a very different experience using stencils. still fun just different.

 photobombed! gotta love bryce.