olson family fall festival family home evening

we've been anxiously waiting for today so we could carve our pumpkins

we thought it would be best to save it for the monday before halloween

and do it for family home evening

i kicked things off by making pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

for the kids to eat after school

 then we ate dinner

and afterward we got everything ready to carve pumpkins

 i made caramel from scratch for our caramel apples

 michael said it was the best caramel apple he's ever had because of it

and said i need to make it every year from now on for our kids and grand kids until i die...he's sweet

 noah ate two because olive decided she didn't want hers after all

 here are michael and hazel's pumpkins

 here they all are

michael's, eleanor's, noah's, olive's and hazel's

somehow henry and i didn't end up with pumpkins

but that's ok, i don't think either of us cared much

 spooooky

i think our little fall festival family home evening is my favorite one every year

it's so fun

we had music on and the kids were having dance/singing parties

i loved it