Seasonal Picture Fun *anybody can join!

[travelmel]

Hello Fellow dis-ers,

I'm just starting this thread because I think this is SUCH a fantastic time of year. I know we all like to do fun things and I hope this will be a thread that people will post on as if it were there own. I'd love to see all of your fantastic ideas and adorable kids/family/whatever!

Whatever you want to share you can do so here. Your lawn decorations, your costumes, your upcoming Christmas prettiness.. whatever! I'm going to begin with some photo's of one of our local pumpkin patches and our recent Halloween Party!

Please enjoy and contribute anything you like!

First some pictures from one of the many SPECTACULAR pumpkin patches up here in the Portland area. I'm a native Californian and we just did NOT have fall so I am forever entranced by this lovely season.

This pumpkin patch is called Lakeview Farms and is really low-key and incredibley beautiful. For those of you reality TV fans this is about 5 minutes from the Little People Big World Rolloff Family Farms.. I'm not a fan of their pumpkin patch because it is too crowded and nowhere NEAR as pretty as the one I'm about to show you .....

Face paint = $1 tip

Train to pumpkin patch

Shot of the cars on the train from last year

Return from Pumpkin picking by boat

When I first moved to Portland I found this pumpkin patch. It has the most spectacular views of tall pines and rolling farmlands. In the lake there are little pop-up dragons and sharks that spray water. This is a pic I have to get of DDC every year. She's quite the ham.

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Timing is crucial!

Coming up next is our Halloween Party... I hope you guys had fun!

Melissa

 

[travelmel]

ahh well... 10 looks and no replies. This may die BUT I'll continue on until somebody tells me to shut up.

Party time!

Upstairs

We finished our downstairs room recently which made a fantastic party room.

later we turned on the disco light, fog machine, and strobe effects.

The menu: Brains with Eyeballs, Graveyard Greens, and Snake Charm Bread
Food porn!

The crew

If you notice in the group pic there is a lot of Disney represented! That's Snow White in the lower left.. Back Middle is Beauty and the Beast, and of course Pirates of the Carribean!

DH was a mad scientist

We almost look like Disney witches just based on the hair alone. Blonde, Red, Brunette

Oogie Boogie is on top

Last year DH carved Jack Skellington for me

After trick or treating we came back to snack, dance, and settled down for a scary movie

Lanterns lit are SO beautiful

Course the movie wasn't TOO Scary

Fun with Ickabod Crane

I love Halloween. And next year it's on a Saturday... Amuck, Amuck, Amuck

 

[tiggrbaby]

Very cool! Looks like you had a great time! Thanks for sharing!

 

[PNO4TE]

Very cool idea. I will have to hunt up some "seasonal photos" to share!

 

[Lights_Out]

Looks like you guys had A LOT of fun!

I can't even imagine how amazing your Christmas Holidays are!

 

[kaoden39]

Okay I am here. I will see what holiday pistures I can find.

 

[travelmel]

Very cool! Looks like you had a great time! Thanks for sharing!

I'm glad you liked them. Thank you for reading!

Very cool idea. I will have to hunt up some "seasonal photos" to share!

Fun! I hope you find some and thanks in advance for sharing!

Looks like you guys had A LOT of fun!

I can't even imagine how amazing your Christmas Holidays are!

I've actually never thrown a Christmas party. But I do like to go to them!

Thanks for reading and I hope there is more to come...

Okay I am here. I will see what holiday pistures I can find.

:: I'm excited to see them!

 

[JaneJetson]

Very cool pumpkins!

I love that you take a picture of your DD in the same spot every year. Very good idea.

 

[travelmel]

Very cool pumpkins!

I love that you take a picture of your DD in the same spot every year. Very good idea.

ha ha! Thanks! The funny thing is that I have had a hard time getting it on a couple of occassions and we have had to ride out again for another chance at "the shot." I missed it this year and I was so mad I almost threw my camera overboard It's fun though!

There are a few things I do that with in terms of taking a picture in a certain spot at a certain place each time... I'm a SUCKER for tradition

 

[wendylady36]

I was one of those ten views with no comment, sorry! Sometimes I don't feel like commenting at the moment so I come back later, like I'm doing now!

I love the Oogie pumpkin!

That pumpkin patch looks like a lot of fun! I'm a sucker for tradition too, but what a great reason to go back every year.

The girls face paint is really cute, and I'm a total sucker for candy corn. Their costumes are also really cute.

Looks like you had a great Halloween.

 

[travelmel]

I was one of those ten views with no comment, sorry! Sometimes I don't feel like commenting at the moment so I come back later, like I'm doing now!

I love the Oogie pumpkin!

That pumpkin patch looks like a lot of fun! I'm a sucker for tradition too, but what a great reason to go back every year.

The girls face paint is really cute, and I'm a total sucker for candy corn. Their costumes are also really cute.

Looks like you had a great Halloween.

Ha ha! That's ok wendylady! At least you didn't tell me to shut-up!

I love the candy corn, too. I went to one of those paint your own ceramic places once during the fall season. I picked a big triangual serving platter and I sat down and began to create a very ornate fall setting, freehand. I was going to put scarecrows, a fence, corn, etc....I should have known that was a mistake!

Long story short it was HORRIBLE! I washed the pencil marks off it, drew on two lines and painted it into a Candy Corn. Even then, I got it wrong. Mine goes White, Yellow, Orange.

It's pretty cute though!

 

[DisneyLaura]

Here's my contributions to your thread. I love fall because of the colors.

We go to Jones Tree Farm every year. They have pick your pumpkins, blueberries, strawberries and cut your own Christmas tree. WE only go for the pumpkins but I want to go for the strawberries.

Here are the kids Christopher 9, Nicholas 7 and Elizabeth 2) in the corn maze

Some gourds

The kids in the pumpkin patch

My DD, Elizabeth, with some mums

 

[travelmel]

So pretty!

Thank you for sharing your pics. How many pumpkin patch choices do you guys have in your area? We have MANY. Some are better than others.

I moved to Oregon about 10 yrs ago but just started getting into "Fall things" about 4 yrs ago when I moved to Portland. Being from California, originally, I just never had a chance to see anything fall.

I think the "fall craze" has moved through that part of the world though (So Cal) because my aunt talked about going on a Hay Ride and pumpkin patch... Maybe the popularity and commercialism is spreading?

 

[tiggerfan1]

Great pics, travelmel and DisneyLaura! Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures to contribute right now.

 

[IDreamfDisney]

Can I just say : I love looking at pictures! I am so happy to be seeing some much missed fall scenery. Great idea, Melissa! I hope people continue to post. As soon as my son gets back from a visit to Philly (to see the Phillies win the World Series and the Championship parade; he was so excited!) I will see if he can show me how to post pictures. I am computer/tech challenged , LOL.

 

[JaneJetson]

I don't have any recent photos. I just have some photos of pumpkins we carved a few years ago. We didn't really put out much Fall/Halloween stuff this year.

I love all of the photos so far though!

 

[DisneyLaura]

Thank you for sharing your pics. How many pumpkin patch choices do you guys have in your area? We have MANY. Some are better than others.

Your welcome for offering me to share my pictures. We have in our town three farms. Then you have a church that now "jumped on the band wagon" and has pumpkins shipped to them. It's right by the kids school but I don't think they did it this year, they used to have a lot of pumpkins left over. The farm we go to the leftover pumpkins they use to feed the pigs there and they probably don't have that many left over. I think people come from all over. They also have a hayride that they now charge a $1.00 for and then the corn maze is $2.00 a person. When my boys were smaller it used to be free. But they love it and I'm sure soon or later they won't want to do things like that so I don't mind.

 

[travelmel]

I don't have any recent photos. I just have some photos of pumpkins we carved a few years ago. We didn't really put out much Fall/Halloween stuff this year.

I love all of the photos so far though!

Thanks! I hope you get back on soon and please feel free to post away. Carved pumpkins are fun!

Great pics, travelmel and DisneyLaura! Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures to contribute right now.

No problem, thanks for stopping by! If you think of anything you'd like to share (Holiday food porn???) please feel free.

Can I just say : I love looking at pictures! I am so happy to be seeing some much missed fall scenery. Great idea, Melissa! I hope people continue to post. As soon as my son gets back from a visit to Philly (to see the Phillies win the World Series and the Championship parade; he was so excited!) I will see if he can show me how to post pictures. I am computer/tech challenged , LOL.

Go Phillies! I don't follow sports but I used to cheer when the first season of Survivor was playing on TV.. I would get so excited and turn the TV up really loud and hoot and holler like a mad woman. I finally got what it must be like to be a "Fan"

 

[travelmel]

I'm going to share some pics from my last Halloween Party which was way back in 2004. I think that was the last time the holiday fell on a weekend. It's so fun to throw a Halloween party as the food can be so fun to theme. I don't have a lot of practice throwing parties.. but I sure have fun doing it!

I wasn't going to dress up that year but at the last minute I got the bug so I just put on a shirt that looked a little bit like spider webs and I put some ghoulish white make-up on and topped it with a preppy sweater and called myself a ghostly soccer mom. If you look closely those are spiders that are crawling up my neck. They looked super cute and were easy to draw. Circle and 8 legs. Done!

Demon Soccer Mom

Can you dig those fancy decorations? I just took some pics from the pumpkin patch that year and sort of fancied them up with some scrapbooking paper and hung them on the wall. The witch looks cute but the ghosts are pretty pac-man-y! I did them last minute and they were definitely cheap!

The next picture was the main table for the party food. The food was pretty easy to prepare but the little tags that I made to sit next to the food took FOREVER! It really added to the ambiance to have the "name" of the food showing.

There is:
Bat Brain Jello -orange jello with raspberries that looked sorta like brains
Owls Eyes - Deviled eggs with black olives for pupils
Spider web soup - Tomato soup with piped sour cream
Mummy Dogs- hot dogs with refriderated bread dough wrapped around them
Spirit Sandwiches - quesadilla's

Food porn!

Next is Black Cat litter... this was a favorite of mine. I put "grape nut cereal" in a disposable roasting pan. Unwrap some tootsie rolls and put in the pan. Next you sprinkle on some powdered sugar. Finally I wet some areas with something.. I can't remember what.. so that it looked like little pee spots. It was so gross! (but not as gross as Beth's cat litter cake.. that was gnarley and COOL!)

Go ahead, dig in!

These were really cute. I made gingerbread men cookies then piped on plain powdered sugar and water (like in the gingerbread house icing) into skeleton shapes.

Gingerbone cookies

The next plate had on just a hodge podge of foods that I found in the frozen food section. They were fried cheese (werewolf puppy bones!) and fried tortellini (gremlin ears!) I just made up names for them.

Gotta love that word art!

 

[travelmel]

BTW, I posted the above pics on one of Beth's TR's so sorry about the fact that they are a repeat for some of you!

Here's a bigger pic of the costume so you can see the spiders on my neck. They were so cool and easy!