1st Annual Thanksgiving Pie for Breakfast

Ever since we lived in SC and had friends that did a pie for breakfast, we have been wanting to start the tradition ourselves. So this was the year since we finally had a place that was big enough to host. We had the following pies for the occasion:
We made 4 pumpkin
2 chocolate pecan
1 pecan
1 strawberry rhubarb
1 apple caramel crumb
and 1 apple cranberry
There were also 2 breakfast pies from the Bayless family
1 peach pie from the Franklins
1 pumpkin from the Condrons
1 apple crumb from the Pagottos
1 pumpkin from the Stuckerts
1 French Silk from the Scotts
and 1 lemon from the Davenports
A good time was had by all and I think that most people are done with pie for a while. But not us! We will have more at Christmas. Pie is a BIG tradition with the Orchard family:)

These are the 10 pies we made!

Pie table one

Pie table two

The kitchen is always the favorite place to congregate!
We had cider and cocoa in there:)

Good crowd, good times!

Cute Pictures

Jacob snuggles with his favorite blanket.

So cute when they are sleeping: )

These crazy boys in the tub with bubbles! They were having so much fun!

Matthew's Halloween Discovery!

Just listen to the video to find out what it is!

Halloween and Evan's Birthday!

All ready for Trick or Treating

Making a stop for candy! It ended up raining but they still went and got lots of loot!

Our house in it's Halloween decoration glory! Evan told me I had put up his birthday decorations:)

Evan gets his birthday slippers!

He insisted on wearing his birthday crown from school while he opened presents.

He was SOOOO excited as he always is!

Carving Pumpkins

Our finished pumpkins on the porch! These are a bunch of photos of us carving our Halloween pumpkins. Amazingly, Evan took most of these!

School Halloween Parade and Party

These are the treats that I made to send to school for the Halloween parties:)

Evan's class before going out to the Halloween Parade

Evan's class seated outside for the parade

Benjamin with his class outside before the parade. If you look closely, you can see that another kid in his class dressed like Mario:)

Matthew and Jacob entertained themselves with Legos and toys during the class party

Decorating Halloween cookies at the class party

It was really fun to be able to go see the kids at school. Thanks JD for helping me make it there:)

Evan's class in the Halloween Parade (it's wobbly because I was holding Matthew)


Benjamin in the Halloween Parade

You can't hear the music really but this is the faculty doing a spin on Ghostbusters in light of the flu...Germbusters:)

Candy Corn Contest

Benjamin guessed the closest number at school and won this bag of candy corn! Evan wanted in to show the popcorn balls that he took as birthday treats:) It was also Crazy Hat day which is why Benjamin is wearing the turtle hat.