Fall fun

We've been enjoying Fall and the change in weather as best we can! It's definitely a little more challenging to think of new things to do with all the rain! Here's some things we've been up to lately!

I hosted a harvest party with some of my lady friends one evening. I didn't take any pics, but it was a ton of fun! Lots of delicious recipes, some of my favorites were this soup: pumpkin soup,  pumpkin cheesecake crumble bars, and the apple crisp my sister in law made. I'll have to ask her for the recipe.. There are so many endless yummy desserts I am trying to squeeze in!

Pumpkin bash at the zoo. I didn't take any pics because it was raining pretty hard and I was too busy attempting to read my shredded, rain soaked zoo map. We've got to do this again next year. The zoo gives pumpkins to different animals and you get to watch them devour them. The best to watch were the hippos! Man can they destroy a pumpkin quite easily!

Shopping for operation Christmas child shoebox. This is our 2nd year taking the cousins shopping for Samaritan's Purse operation Christmas child program. Basically you fill a shoebox with lots of different toys, hygiene items, etc. for a boy or girl and then take it to a drop off location during collection week. Such an easy way to serve others and have fun at the same time! Plus our shopping day has conveniently happened on the first day of eggnog drinks at Starbucks. YUM!

The leaves outside our house were so gorgeous this year. Colter loved gathering huge handfuls and throwing them in the air.

                       
Carving pumpkins before Halloween. Colter was definitely not into the slime, but he got a huge kick out of us hiding his bus inside the pumpkin. After a while, he decided he would rather smell spices.

We FINALLY made it all the way around greenlake with Colterman. He's not one for sitting in strollers for long periods of time, so we were armed with a serious amount of snacks! The leaves were absolutely gorgeous!

This is probably one of my all time favorite pics. 

We ventured to Swanson's nursery for the first day of their live reindeer display. We got to feed a reindeer a piece of apple, check out their HUGE camel, take a picture on a sleigh, and watch their amazing train display for a loooooooong time. I love free activities like this!

                       

In other news, Colter still loves to cook. This is my sweet view almost every afternoon.

 Sometimes I look at Colter and think, "man he looks big." This was one of those moments.

It's hard to believe it, but I hit the 7 month mark in my pregnancy. We can't wait to meet this little lady girl! 

I love my fam.

driving his bus up the big "hill."

We've had a few fun dates recently. We saw the movie argo which was awesome and we also went out to dinner at 5 bistro in Edmonds. Ben went out with the guys to see skyfall which he said was great as well. Jessie, Kelsey, and I went to tea in Bothell for a super fun girls outing.

As you can see, we're gearing up to switch to Christmas festivities!! This is such an awesome time of year!