Halloween Hullabaloo!

Kari and I made plans to carve pumpkins, ones we got from her church's Harvest Party.

Kari tracing her pumpkin template.

Kari cutting off the top of her pumpkin

my pumpkin's face

guts galore!

EW! guts!

Kari bought a kit for our carving date, much safer. but i opted to use kitchen knives. MWAHAHAHAHA!

kari and her pumpkin, i can't tell them apart.

the two on the left are mine, kari on the right

us and our pumpkins! and yes, we're wearing matching Starbuck's aprons.

later we made haystacks (and ate most of them) had some yummilicious pizza and watched a movie. ^_^ i hope your Halloween celebrations were as fun as mine. ^_^ 'cause their's no way yours could have been better than mine. ^_^

LOVELY LEAVES!

One Saturday morning (somewhere in the middle of October), we three (two Knapps and a Bowman) went off to Hocking Hills to go view the lovely colors of the dying leaves.

this is me stoked to see the leaves!

Rich, our faithful guide pointing out the leaves to us.

this tree grew in the shape of a "J" on the edge of a cliff. J for Jeanette! ^_^

Mom and Rich after climbing the steep rock stairs

can those colors really exist in nature?

mom being adorable holding up some pretty bits of nature

For lunch, we went to a cute little ma and pa place. i think it was called The Ridge Inn Restaurant.

Mom and Rich at the table, waiting for their food.

The restaurant was across the street from the Apple House, where they sell apples and apple cider. They even had cider slushies. We watched people (tons of people) coming and going. Everyone leaving with something. I saw one woman leave with FIVE gallons of cider.

So after our lunch, we went to the apple house and bought 1/2 a peck of apples (apparently 14 apples). half were granny smiths for me and half red delicious for Rich. THEY WERE SO YUMMY! I ate all mine within five days. '~'

i hope you've been enjoying your autumn!