OKTOBERFEST

Well, the big event finally came that we've been looking forward to for a month. The Oktoberfest grill-off at the Walsh house. We had 5 different groups cooking, 5 different courses(apps, pupus, salad, main course, dessert), and lots of grilling. Our friends, TJ and Jen came up with their son, Kobe and that made our group. We were up VERY late the night before, planning our recipes. We all had a lot of fun and were so exhausted by the end of the day! After cleanup we just sat around barely moving. Here are a pictures from this all day event.



Our host, Jim (right) and his son, Chason (green shirt). Incase you can't read it, Jims apron reads, "King of the Grill"

This is Kobe.

Mike and Valerie (Chad's parents)

The kids played in the bed of the truck for a while, screaming (ouch!) and having a great time. Valerie and I are watching.


Stephanie (Chad's sister) and her hubby, Dustin. Can you see the love??


And you all know Autumn.

These are the grill stations. Ours is second to the end on the right.

Autumn, chasing bubbles.


Autumn trying to get me to eat a nasty chunk of ice from the ice chest.


This is bear. He's awsome. Notice the bottle opener on his neck? Whenever a beer needed opening, he was called. A little beer was always spilled on the ground for him as a reward.

Chad is concentrating and didn't want to smile for the camera.




This was for our appetizer, stuffed mushrooms (they were delicious!)

Chad and TJ, busy preparing the food.

Pumpkin Patch!

It's the time of year for pumpkins again! Hurray! I've been looking forward to this and Autumn has been going around the house saying "pumpkin patch!" (Now whenever she sees a pumpkin, she yells this). Here in Spokane there's a collection of farms called Green Bluff and they all offer tons of fruit picking, homemade goods, and this time of year, pumpkins, mazes, etc. We only had time for one farm, maybe we'll hit up more next year. But we had fun and here are the pictures.
Time to pick our pumpkins! They were a bit picked over but I think we found some nice ones.

This is the giant pumpkin cannon. Every half hour or so they shot a pumpkin out at a target in the neighboring field.

We had so much fun playing in this big pile of hay!


Autumn showed no apprehension about the maze at all. She just ran right in and had a blast.




Autumn and her daddy :)