Happy Halloween Baby Katie

I had to post some of these pictures because I thought it was really cute. Breanne was playing with those halloween window stickies and decided that baby Katie needed to be more festive. Here's how she decoreated:

Job Update

Cameron has finally heard back from the parks dept here in WA!! They've excepted his application and he's scheduled for his physical and psychological examines on the 30th of this month. The fitness part of it includes a mile and a half run, push ups, sit up, 300 meter sprint, vertical jump and agility run. That seems like an awful lot for just a park ranger position but apparently they want him in pretty good physical shape. He did a test run of all these events last weekend and past them all, but he's definitely not in the same shape he use to be. And lets be honest, I think that he actually gained a few sympathy pounds this last time (ITS ABOUT TIME!). I'm not quite sure what all the psychological examine includes, but lets hope he's psychologically sound. After all this is the polygraph test which is the most common to fail probably because they lied on the application about not being involved in criminal activities. All in all I think he has a great chance of getting this job. It is the state, lets keep that in mind, so it could take months or years for that matter for this whole process! Maybe I exaggerated a bit.

Pumpkin Patching

I appologize for the last post being so down hearted, we just had a couple of rough days, nothing that couldn't be over come.

Friday we took the girls to a pumpkin patch in Olympia with some friends. It was SO much fun. Let me paint the picture for you. It was the four of us, my friend and her 3 kids, 2 of her friends with their 2 boys and anothers 3 girls. The total count here is 6 kids ages 4 and under and 4 babies 5 months and under. Luckily there was an adult for every child that could walk and we only lost one kid the entire afternoon. She was the oldest child so it wasn't REALLY scary, but still. She wandered off into one of the three pumpkin patches and we couldn't find her for about 15 mins, but all turned out okay.

The kids got to feed goats, chickens, a pig, and ride horses :) Here is a picture of the horses that they were allowed to ride.

The goats were really hungry, like goats usually are, but if the kids weren't careful they would grab the brown paper bags that the food was in and eat the food AND the bag! Greedy goats! One of the boys got his bag stolen by these theifs but luckily Cameron was there to save the day! He snatched the bag out of the goats mouth and were all the kids hero.

So the whole point of going to the pumpkin patch was to pick out a pumpkin, right? Wrong. We walked around looking for a cute little one that Breanne could walk out with, but when we found the right one and tried to hand it to her she refused to touch it! I did my best to wipe the dirt and mud off the pumpkin but she was convinced that she would get her hands dirty. This is not my fault as many of you might believe. I've tried my best to make sure she's not a prissy little girl and worry about dirt and such, but obviously it hasn't worked. Needless to say we didn't get pumpkins that day, but it's still early. The best part is, though, that we had our first family portrait taken as a family of four.

There are a ton of pumpkin patches around here so we're thinking that we'll hit one every weekend until halloween! They're free, why not?