Saturday after skating and the pumpkin patch, Meg, Lauren, Laura and I headed to Michael’s for the Great Pumpkin Event.
Meg picked out the perfect pumpkin to paint and decorate as a purple bat.
She and Lauren got started painting their pumpkins purple.
After they painted their pumpkins, they had to cut out the bat wings and ears from purple foam.
After everything was put on their pumpkins, we headed to lunch at Chili’s.
***Meg, me, Laura and Lauren with the girls pumpkins***
After skating lessons on Saturday, Meg and I went with Laura and Lauren to a pumpkin patch for a quick photo shoot. Meg wasn’t exactly in the mood for a photo shoot, so I had to bribe her a few times.
***Meg and Lauren in the back of my car***
We went to the same pumpkin patch that we visited last year in Arlington. It’s not actually a pumpkin patch, it’s a church’s front yard that sell pumpkins. But, they have great photo ops and it’s close and free, so we love it.
***beautiful girls***
Meg had fun running around and making me force her to take some pictures. The pictures of Meg aren’t that great, so we’ll definitely be going to another pumpkin patch for some more pictures. Meg was just in one of “those” moods and I didn’t want to ruin our day.
***One of the few pictures I like***
It didn’t help that Meg was chewing gum and blowing bubbles for every photo. I had to constantly remind her to keep her gum in her mouth and to stop blowing bubbles! It was driving me crazy!!! Why I helped her learn how to blow bubbles is beyond my comprehension. My gum bill has more than tripled since this new hobby started!
***Meg getting ready to blow another bubble***
***Blowing a bubble with her gum*** 
Meg was also in the mood to make the funny smile. It reminded me of her portraits that she takes for school pictures.
I was able to talk her into taking some pictures with me. I’m glad we had Laura with us – she snapped a few with my camera! Thanks Laura :)
Meg loved this girl scare crow. It was one of the few times that she was a willing participate in my photography. She was being a total goof ball.
This picture cost me one dollar. By the time I snapped this picture, Meg was done with my picture taking. Unfortunately, the dollar wasn’t well spent, because this is the best picture I was able to get of the little princess. In all the other pictures, she is not smiling. I should have made a condition on my dollar…I know next time to tell her that I’ll give her a dollar if she gives me a good shot.
At least she was happy on the way to the car. We bought four little pumpkins and she was very happy about that. I’m not sure what she was more happy about…the fact that she had four new pumpkins or that we were leaving. I’ll let you decide.
Friday night was absolutely perfect for spending a few hours at Six Flags, so Meg and I invited Laura and Lauren to meet us up there for the evening. Meg and I got to the park around 6:15, right after it opened. We were able to squeeze in a few rides before the girls arrived.
Meg loves everything about Six Flags. We rode the Big Spin, the Conquistador (twice) and the La Vibora. We really wanted to head over to the Titan, but didn’t have time before they arrived.
We met them in Looney Tunes USA and headed over to the Judge Roy Scream from there. Meg and Lauren rode together in one car and Laura and I rode in another. I loved listening to the girls scream and watch them hold their hands up. Meg is a complete daredevil (she LOVES the Titan). Lauren is coming around – she just started riding the Judge Roy Scream. Next time we go, we’ll have to get her on the Shock Wave. I think she’d love it.
The girls had a great time and were sad when we told them it was time to head home. We had plans on Saturday to go to the Arlington Skatium, the pumpkin patch, Michaels for pumpkin decorating and to Aaron’s football game. We knew if we didn’t get them home for a good night’s rest that our Saturday would be horrible.
