Annual Celebration of the Harvest

Hi all! I have lots of great photos from our wonderful day today! We met up with friends at the corn maze, enjoyed some time getting lost and taking photos with all the pumpkins. Back at our place we had lots of fun preparing the food and then eating it :) We had a beef and barley Stew, butternut gratin, candied yams, homemade applesauce, a delectable butternut harvest feta dish, chili with a story and for desert we had pumpkin pie and bread pudding. To top our evening off, David spent quite a bit of time laughing at Carol's peek-a-boo antics, and the day ended on a very happy note :) I hope you enjoy the video of the giggles as well as the photos!
Details of our day include...


The Chili Story:
On the way to our house Aleena and Anna were amazed by how good the homemade chili smelled and couldn't believe how strong it was, Anna said her car had never smelled more delicious. Upon arrival, the discovered the crockpot had tipped over and spilled the majority of the contents in the trunk of the car, and all over the new pumpkins and squash! Shocked, appalled and giggling they came in for towels and plastic bags to clean up the mess, luckily enough of the chili was in the pot for all up us to get a taste... it was a tragic loss indeed, for its flavor and consistency was excellent!



The Forgotten dish:
Ashley, a friend of Anna's also came to the party and brought a yummy concoction of sweet potato and an unidentified green (kale?) both were ingredients that I didn't know I liked, but I was very impressed and delighted with what I tasted. Somehow it didn't get placed on the table, and went undiscovered until after Ashley had left! Those of us still there thoroughly enjoyed it and would like to thank her for her contribution :)


The Maze:
David was adorable in his Tiger costume, and the twins were cuter than you can imagine dresses and Minnie and Mickey mouse! instead of relying on strollers, we simply took turns carrying the kids through the maze... it worked out pretty well and we all had fun :)



We all wore brown:
Oh yeah, once back at the house we realized that Aleena, Joy, Jonathan and I were all wearing brown shirts with jeans! it was kinda funny so we took a picture, sadly Joy isn't in the photo because she and Dan had to get the twins home for bedtime... but we were thinking of her!