Family Harvest Fest

Every year we like to have a family harvest fest where we go to a pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins then go back home to carve them and have a fall themed dinner.  This year we invited the Nostrands to join us.  We spent hours at the pumpkin patch while the kids played in the hay maze, petting zoo, bounce house and all the other little activities they had for kids (digging in a barrel of dirt-TONS of fun!  Who needs videogames?) Afterwards we went home and made caramel apples dipped in mini chocolate chips and peanuts.  We also had a make your own nacho bar (is that fall themed?) and salad.  It was a fun (and very late) night for the kids and us!

The finished products...

Jacob's is the first one, mine the middle (used a hand drill-sweet and simple) and Ella's the fancy one on the right.  Ella got help from dad doing hers, but Jacob's was all his own!