Halloween Parade

The boy's school has an awesome Halloween parade every year.  The whole school participates and enjoys the excitement of the holiday.  The kids are always so creative with their costumes but the teachers costumes are outstanding. 

The parade starts.  Here comes the cutest pokemon in the parade.

Emma loved watching her brothers in action.

Myles teacher was a "volcanologist".  Emma insisted he was a robot.

Grady and his buddies

The parade loops around the field complete with music and dancing.

Bilbo Baggins

My ride home.  The kids wanted to take selfies.

Emma partied a little too hard

Em had a fall festival at her school

Leaf crowns and chocolate covered apples

Fall Fun

One of Grady's best friends, Josiah, had an amazing birthday party.  He took Grady and Will, Grady's other good buddy to Elida Corn Maze.  They spent the day having fall themed fun.  Josiah's mom sent me these photos from the party.  

These three have been friends since preschool.  

Corn cob blaster gun

Grady wants a corn pit in our back yard.

My "Office"

I am fortunate enough to work in one of the most beautiful places in the world (in my opinion).  Usually, I teach nature programs to kids but every once in a while I fill in on the trails.  It's so refreshing to walk trails and help guests.  Especially when you have these kind of views.

From the top of Exclamation Point looking towards Lake Lure.

Looking down on the rock

Hickory Nut Falls

Fall colors have arrived

For Halloween, I had to dress up as a bat

This was not at the park but in my backyard on my way to work.  See the big black bear running away from me?

I scared it when I got so excited and made a lot of noise grabbing my camera.

The best "scarecrow" in town.

These are from Black Mountain.  I LOVE our town.

The Pumpkin Train

We rode the Great Smokey Mountains Railroad, It's a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.  We didn't do it last year so we had to make the trip this fall.  Emma really likes trains so we knew it would go over well.  It's was a long day but even Josh and I like the "pumpkin train".

We made a stop at the train museum before the train departed.

Headed to the pumpkin patch

She wasn't too sure of the train whistle.  Loud noises are very scary to her which is strange because she isn't afraid of anything else.

My boys

Grady and the bouncy slide

Myles tried a new method

Myles heading to the bobbing for apples station

Emma got to practice a little trick or treating.

Attempting to catch a photo of all three.  It rarely works

Roasting marshmallows

Love them.

She would not leave Charlie Brown alone.

Grady was "too cool" for the hayride

Squeezing in