Happy Dia de los Muertos...

November 1st and 2nd are the two days many cultures celebrate Dia de los Muertos.  While it is around the same time as Halloween, the two holidays having nothing in common.  Emily has been studying about Dia de los Muertos this past month and asked if we could please create an alter for her Great Grandpa Jack.  We did some shopping, stitched together a few pieces of his flannel shirts, made some paper flowers, added a photo and had our very own special alter for him...

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Bungholio, Sammy and PUMPKINS!

During the second weekend of October we headed up to Nooksack to celebrate Bungholio with the Joneses...

 

 The following Tuesday, Jack helped his class make Sammy the Scarecrow...

 

 Later that afternoon I accompanied Emily on her field trip to the pumpkin patch...

 The kids all ate lunch together...

There were so many parents to help supervise that we only had one extra kiddo in our group.  Diego, a super nice kiddo,  joined Emily and I for the day...

We come to Schuh Farms all the time to feed these two sister goats but for most of the kids this was their first experience...

Next we went to visit the baby piggies, cow and chickens...

Each kiddo received an ear of corn to feed the chickens...

Then we all piled on the wagon and took a ride out to the pumpkin patch...

 LOVED this day with Emily!  She is growing up so quickly and with her now being in school ALL day long I find myself missing her more and more and wishing we had just a little more time back to spend together.

October CAMPING...

 

With September being such a busy month we hardly had any time to camp so when October rolled around we were quick to check out some local camp grounds for some casual weekend camping.

The first weekend in October we headed out to Fidalgo Bay Resort in Anacortes.  We ride our bikes through this camp ground all the time but have never actually stayed there.  Lucky for us we got a spot and had lots of visitors throughout the weekend...

The hill behind our site proved to be one of the best sources of entertainment for the weekend...

Emily made friends with the people camped next to us immediately.  This little girl was two years older than Emily and she and her parents were touring the United States in their RV for 6 MONTHS straight.  It was so much fun to hear about all of their adventures and made us to some thinking ourselves...

Besides jumping off the huge rock outside our trailer, the kids found great entertainment in riding various modes of transportation down the hill...

The next morning Bryan, I and the kids kids rode our bikes down the Tommy Thompson Trail to the Anacortes Farmer's Market...

After our fun at the market we headed over to LaConner to check out one of the farms that were part of the Skagit Valley Farms tours.  Last year we hit A LOT of farms but this year we stuck to one of our favorites and then headed back to camp...

The kids LOVE making the vegetable cars and racing them down the track each year...

Emily spent all of her time decorating hers...

After a lot of racing we headed to the tractor to take a tour of the farm...

While we were touring the farm a reporter from the Skagit Valley Herald took a picture and featured a few of us on the front page of the newspaper...

Later that afternoon, while Charlie was sleeping, Emily and Jack rode their bikes out over the water while I ran along side them...

When we got back to camp we had a special surprise waiting for us...Grandma and Grandpa Jones!

The kids played all night and then the next day we rode our bikes back into town to get some treats at the Donut House.  By the time we got back it was time to pack up, say our good-byes and head on back home.