Halloween Weekend

We haven't had much time to be a family of 3 recently, and finally this weekend we were able to spend some a few hours together for Halloween! A couple days after I got back from NY, Tyler flew to Cali for a week of work. He got home late Thursday night, and then had school all day Friday and Saturday. Luckily we squeezed in the Pumpkin Patch on Friday night right as it stopped raining.

But as you can tell, since we waited til October 28th to get our pumpkin the pickings were slim! This is actually the third pumpkin patch we drove to, the first 2 had already shut down for the season.



That pumpkin was sitting on a crate all by itself and was one of the only large ones left so we picked that one!

Jackson helped Daddy wheel it around the patch.


I think this is the only picture of the three of us together from the whole weekend :)


This little guy is growing up so fast!

Last year he was our little 7 month old tiger He couldn't even crawl yet last year, and now we've got a toddler who runs everywhere!


Love that little chunky baby :)

This year we had our little man dress up as a train conductor! He is so into trains right now and says choo choo all day long. He actually calls all trucks "choo choos" but we're trying to teach him the difference. It was the perfect last-minute costume choice to go along with his recent obsession!



Saturday night we headed over to the trunk-or-treat about 5 minutes after Tyler got home from school (oh he had 2 tests that day nbd).

It is so hard to get a picture of Jackson smiling while looking at the camera so in this one, he and Tyler are chasing me around the field!


It was also hard to get him to wear both the bandanna and hat at the same time, but here he was so distracted with his new love - chips - that he didn't mind wearing them.


Because of Tyler's busy week, we didn't end up dressing up this year but we did have fun passing out candy and seeing Jackson get excited to get candy and put it in his pumpkin :)


On Monday afternoon we carved our pumpkin and Jackson wanted nothing to do with it! I tried to show him the guts and seeds, and have him get close to the pumpkin for pictures but he was completely content playing with his golf set and basketball hoop.


Tyler does the carving, I do the "gutting."


Getting ready for the real big night!

He also learned he loves laffy taffy.


Not gunna lie he was being pretty difficult that night and would not pose for any pictures or keep his hat on. The happiest face he made was here when he heard an airplane flying overhead. He's also very interested in airplanes and can always spot them in the sky when he hears the noise. We might have a little pilot next year...


We started the night over at Mickey and Minnie's House - they live down the street from us and yes, they legally changed their names to Mickey and Minnie.


He was so intrigued by everything that the hat even stayed on! He kept staring at this Pluto saying "woof woof"!

They decorate their yard for every holiday (even Labor Day) but Halloween and Christmas are the most intense. I actually think Halloween is even bigger than Christmas for them though.


Then we met up with some friends who live in the neighborhood to go trick or treating together. They happened to have a train set out in their family room and Jackson was in love! He may or may not have screamed when we took him outside to go trick-or-treating...


He did pretty good and went up to lots of doors with Daddy, the only thing was that he would often try to walk into the houses so Tyler had to carry him of the porch several times.


He got tired as the night went on, so we used the stroller to push him the rest of the way.




When we got home he looked through all his candy and fell asleep quickly afterward. Poor Tyler had to be in Jacksonville the next morning so he left around 9 to drive up there and stayed the night in a hotel. So it's been a busy time for poor Tyler but we're glad we were able to spend some time with him for Jackson's 2nd Halloween.