October Fun

We had so much fun in October!  We started the month off with a hike to Amicalola Falls with our friends the Mendenhalls.  The hike leads to a beautiful waterfall.  Then there is about 1,000 stairs to the top and it is also the beginning of the Appalachian Trail.  I was so proud of Hayden for hiking the whole thing on her own and proud of myself for climbing all the stairs with my big belly :)

Eating lunch at a picnic area

First part of hike to the waterfall 

After the hike we headed to R&A Orchards to pick apples and of course enjoy apple cider, apple donuts and apple fritters!  

Later on that month we went to a pumpkin patch right by our house!  My friend Carolyn told me about it and I was so excited because all the others I knew of were far from our home.  It was the farms first year hosting a pumpkin patch and it was so much fun!

There was horse races

Duck racing contests (Hayden's favorite spot, she loved pumping the water)

Pumpkin launcher

Horse Riding (Hayden's first time on a horse)

She also went down a zip line, a huge slide, and we went on a hayride!  

And of course she picked out her very own pumpkin in the end

Love fun days like this one!

The next activity for the month was making Halloween sugar cookies.  Hayden loves to make them and I hate it!  Such a process!  But we did cats and pumpkins this year and of course Hayden insisted we throw in a Christmas tree because she is already excited about Christmas.

We also did Halloween fingernails 

Next we painted and carved our pumpkins.  Hayden is NOT a fan of pumpkin guts, she thinks it's disgusting!

She painted our family members faces on her pumpkin and had a great time doing it!

She also helped me carve

Next was the Trunk or Treat party at church! For awhile there Hayden really wanted to be a Conehead for Halloween.  Thank goodness she changed her mind, this costume was much easier!  How awesome is her red hair?

Hayden with her friend Maddie and her older sister Macey in the background.

Lining up for the costume parade

Trunk or Treating outside with Dad

Hayden absolutely loves Dyson Douglas.  He is always so nice to her at church!

Halloween finally arrived and that morning we had a playgroup at Sara McLeod's house.  So after preschool I took her over and she played all afternoon.  We then went home and got ready for Halloween night.  

We went trick or treating with our friends the Heinholds like the year before.  Hayden was so much braver this year and went to every house and said "trick or treat" and "thank you" after receiving her candy.

Love this picture of her hair flowing in the wind!  She seriously had so much fun.  She kept telling me that "this was the best Halloween of her whole life!" 

October really was a crazy month.  On top of all that, I was invited to speak at a church function on how to form healthy relationships, we had about 3 birthday parties, our birthing classes, and we were suppose to have family pictures (but got there all dressed up and her camera was broken :( )

We are packing in the fun before this baby arrives!