Halloween Suckers

Every Halloween for years I've liked to make ghost suckers with the grandkids. So last Sunday after church - we rounded up a few of them and had a giant white chocolate melt-down! Even the oldest ones decided they weren't too old for it and came down to the house to make their treat.
Here's the younger ones having a puppet show behind grandma's couch.
Rebecca, our oldest granddaughter (who is turning 12 next month! Ahh!) is having fun with the chocolate chips.

Daniel, our oldest grandchild isn't too cool to have fun at grandma's house.

Aunt Emily admires his work... and he obviously thinks his is the coolest!

Little Eli thought the chocolate was mighty-fine to play with as edible finger paint. And yes...I am wearing pumpkins on my head. It's OK to be a silly grandma sometimes, isn't it?

Pumpkins & Huntin'

I just love the fall - the colors are really great this year. It's hard for me to drive to work because I keep looking at all the trees! We went to a pumpkin patch with Emily and her two boys a couple of weeks ago (before the rains hit). Eli and Jonah had fun on all the farm equipment and riding on the hay ride.

Hunting is the other thing that happens in October. Dan and Danny and Emily took most of the kids to a new hunting area by LaGrande, OR. It was lots of fun - got snowed on, and rode 4 wheelers all over. But no sign of any kind of deer worth shooting. Daniel is showing his bravery trying to eat a flaming burnt offering of a hot dog!

The campfire was the warmest place around - apart from the RV's. Dan is standing with Jonah and James. Those two cousins are inseparatable!