So of course there were also pumpkins to carve

So this fine Sunday David and I drove to Port Moody to drop off stock at the store. From there, of course, we went to Rocky Point. I won't mention my homework assignment...

 It was a beautiful day for a stroll.

 And an ice cream!!

 Eventually we headed home, where it was time to start carving our pumpkins!

 We managed to persuade Tommy to carve pumpkins too. His first time!

EWWWWWWW pumpkin guts!

 Or yum pumpkin guts!?

I seem to have the pictures of the carved pumpkins elsewhere...

Pumpkin Patching - by popular demand!

I don't know how many times I'm going to say this over the next few years. But I'm so thankful that my kids still do things like pumpkin patches!

We needed pumpkins, and decided to go back to the same farm we visited last year with Dave and Alexis. They had a hay maze.

The kids are tall enough to see over, but it's still fun!

And here are their chickens. All crowded round in the sun because they know they'll get loads of feed from all the people like us.

This little guy was happy enough to pose for me.

Dapper young thing.

And my kids were also happy enough to pose for me.

Then we rode the hay wagon out to the field. I always forget that the field is just on the other side of the barn, but hey, wagon rides are super fun, right?

Once we got out there, the debate began over the perfect pumpkin. It was $5 each to get in, but the $5 included your hay ride and counted against the cost of your pumpkin (or indeed anything in the store).

David found his pumpkin almost immediately.

Don't mind all these pictures. Photography class assignment this week was story telling.

I'm such a sucker for all the props out in the fields for photo ops.

And then I found the pigs!

I would so love a pet piggie.

Aren't they sweet?!

Then it was time for pictures with our treasure!

Happy Halloweening!

A newborn Solomon is born!

David and Alexis' third born was born, and we needed to meet him! It was another pro-d day, so we ventured to the coast.

 David went incognito!

And here he is, little Solomon.

I was trying to get pictures for my natural light assignment, but they didn't quite work out as I'd hoped.

 But still, look at that little love!

 Solomon was over 10 pounds when he was born. Our family sure does have big babies!

And, as you can see, David was absolutely delighted to have another boy cousin.

 While Solomon, Alexis and Ruben napped, the rest of us walked across the road to visit their beach. oh my!

It is the perfect pirating beach! We were all in love.

 It's a bit hard to see in the pictures, but there was a lot of climbing and scrambling, it was quite arduous work.

 So we ventured around the corner of this rock towards another beach. Dave thought maybe there was another way back up to the road where the houses were. But we couldn't find it and the tide started to come in.

 Me being me, I of course started to panic. I had visions of us all being caught on the rocks and drowning (too many Anne of Green Gables books).

 Oh here you can see just how far up and down we had to climb in the rocks.

 Obviously, we didn't die. In fact, there was never any danger of it happening.

Ada and I found a piece of driftwood that was balanced on some rock. We each stood on one end of the log and I bounced us up and down.

 Between that and the crashing waves coming in, she thought it was pretty great.

Then she pulled out her umbrella to show me.

 And then Dave got a call from his friend Dave, for us to meet them for gelato in Gibsons. Now that's my kind of invite!

 Typical Dave face.

 We ventured onto the pier to look at the boats, and anything else we could find.

 They put life vests on the pier for children to wear. Brilliant for when you've got three under 6 to look after.

The other thing we got to do was watch the sea planes take off.

 And finally we made our way back to the purple house for a last visit with the babies.