Halloween and Heike

We were all very excited for Heike to come and visit. SO...we took her on a tour of Mount Horeb, then to the Cave of the Mounds and then apple picking. 2 action packed days! and not to mention HALLOWEEN! I think the boys have WAY to much excitement in their lives!

Found another troll to check off our list.

And here are the boys on top of "Boy Mountain"

The boys were so brave this time at the cave (we tried this last year and they were very ready to leave half way through the tour). It also helped that they handed out some rock treasures to everyone, since it was halloween, and the boys were thrilled! Although I should have paid more attention to what they were handing out because the boys kept asking what the rocks were called and I could not remember them all.
We also carved our pumpkins...and picked a special one for her and Alex, who was unfortunatley not able to make the trip.This one is for you Alex!!! Peter chose the marker route to creat beautiful pumpkins.Jamison on the other hand rolled up his sleeves and dug right in! THey look pretty good! Not sure what Pat created ( the one with all the dots) but he assured me that the geeks will know what that is.

And for halloween..the boys were Elmo, because he was a friendly red monster (says Jamison)

and a the transformer Optimus Prime (he saw it in a catelog). The were troopers....and even went to houses with decorations! (last year...not so much). They were a little nervous about coming across a zombie because they heard that they eat your brains. (thanks Pat) Peter was prepared and would put his mask on if he saw anything that would resemble a zombie but as Jamison said "so far so good, no zombies!" There were only two houses that they refused to go to. Not bad.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!