Hayride and Pumpkin Carving! What a great week!

Seriously, it was a super fun week! We went on a little hayride on Monday to pick out pumpkins! It was alot of fun to ride out to the field and pick ours off the vine. Jocelyn was so cute holding her little tiny pumpkin. It was pretty cold, but she didn't seem to mind at all. We want to do this every year. On the drive to the hayride Casey and I argued over who was more excited to go. He won. :)

We found our perfect pumpkins!

Then last night we got together with Bekah and Sam (Bradley), who we love to play with and are always fun and make us stay up till 2 am everytime we get together. haha. Sam made a yummy Japanese dinner that we all gobbled up. It was all deep fried and sooo good! Then we carved our pumpkins. Sam's brother AJ and his wife Ashley joined us for the carving and brought us yummy donuts. Thanks guys! I had to see if it would work to carve the little one and it did! I think it turned out really cute. Casey is so funny because we carved pumpkins last year with Sam and Bekah and Casey was the first one both years to be done and it was before any of us were even finished cleaning ours out. He likes to just get it carved fast.

Jocelyn loved squishing the pumpkin guts and she is fast getting it in her mouth so yes she did eat some.
Our Pumpkins! Left to right: Bekah's, Sam's, Casey's, Jocelyn's (not lit up), mine, AJ's, and Ashley's. We are pretty much professional pumpkin carvers!

After we carved the pumpkins we put Jocelyn up on the counter with all the pumpkins and she went back and forth between all of them licking and sucking on them. It was funny! She was our entertainment for the night. All six of us were entertained just playing with her and watching her for a good hour. And to think I wanted to get a babysitter for her that night- what would we have done for an hour without her there? She can be pretty fun! We left pretty early last night cause Jocelyn was awake- if I can consider midnight early! It was for us though. We are so glad they are living back down here so we can play with them more.

Jocelyn licking the pumpkins

Oh my goodness- I just looked at the date and Jocelyn is 7 months old today! I don't know where the time went! And I'm kicking myself for not getting pictures of her on her 7 month birthday. Shoot. Oh well, just know she's super cute and getting soo much happier and fun! Everyone comments on what a good baby she is. We've done a complete turn around from her first couple months. Hooray!