A glimpse of October

We did lots of fun things leading up to Halloween this year.  We visited Red Barn Nursery for some Halloween festivities and for some cute pics...

They had a small petting zoo there which Jake really enjoyed.  He wanted to hold a mouse!!  Definitely not like his Mommy in this area...

 I love this fall pic...

 There was also a fall festival at our neighborhood elementary school.  They had lots of free carnival-type game you could play, but Jake didn't want to play a single one.  Sometimes he freezes up a little when there's a large crowd in a new environment.  The one thing he did want to do, however, was paint a pumpkin.  Here's his masterpiece...

 We picked out a pumpkin to carve the weekend before Halloween.  Jake picked how he wanted the face and Daddy carved it.  Here are the guys getting the pumpkin prepped...

 When it came time to clean out the pumpkin guts, Jake was not too thrilled about the idea.  He put his hand in once (which I actually caught on camera), then decided his hands were too dirty...

 He then became the trash holder for all the pumpkin guts...a much cleaner job...

 Jake and I also made some special cupcakes for the season.  I showed him a few different decor options and he chose a cat, so we bought all the supplies to make lots of Halloween black cats.  here's Jake with one of his finished cat cupcakes...

Turns out, neither one of us had a long enough attention span to make all the cupcakes into cats, so we started our own creative decorating.  I think they all turned out beautifully!