This year brought many different activities to entertain both girls! The first, of course, being the annual tradition to select pumpkins and enjoy festivities at the pumpkin patch:

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Then we had to bring the pumpkins in, size them up, decide what to carve, and carve them! Grace had a great time picking out the faces we should carve, and also helping clean out the pumpkin guts!

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Next came Grace’s favorite part! All of the Trick-or-Treating! First, we started with Night Eyes at the Blank Park Zoo with the Brown family:

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Then we attended Reiman Gardens for “Trick-or-Treat at the Gardens” with the Grooters family:

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Finally, it was Trick-or-Treat night. Grace had been practicing at all the other events, including at school. So she was a pro, ready to join Raleigh and Jack for fun in our neighborhood.

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At the end of a long night of Trick-or-Treating, the girls sit and enjoy by their pumpkins:

While Grace was out Trick-or-Treating, Madelyn was holding down the fort at home. Somebody had to stay home and make sure the kids only took one piece of candy! 🙂

Though we found these special days to be a bit busy with our two girls, we loved all of the excitement of sharing the fun as a family of four. We look forward to more special days with our girls as the holiday season approaches!

All of the photos can be viewed on Flickr