Halloween!

As you may have read in a previous post, we were sick a large chunk of the month of October and had to cram all the festivities of October into a few days. Today I woke up with a mission to get pumpkins so we could have carved jackolanterns by Halloween night. I drove to the store, none there, long story short and 6 stores later and ZERO pumpkins I was getting really sad and aggravated!!! So I sat there pondering what to do!!! And I saw a bunch of weird looking squash and thought, what the heck. So we carved squash this year! And the kids really enjoyed it thankfully! I've also included our costume pics and a few others in this post! Enjoy!



The kids finished projects

This looks yummy!


Darren still working on his butternut squash! ;)

Ooooo Aaaaaaa, so cool! ;)

My little ball of squish playing in the leaves

Just gave that leaf a bad look after tasting it and not liking it!

Such a cutie!

All 4 once Daddy got done with his! Cute huh?

Scary Darren after he hand painted his face! Creepy!

Little Miss Lily the Witch

Ashton the Ninja Turtle


Ethan the Zombie (He always has to be something really scary!)

Jacob the Monkey.

All 4. Jacob had just fell down and bumped his head. That's why he's crying. :(

Scary bunch!

Trick or Treat! (Notice the "Jason" in the door?) When the kids finally noticed him they freaked!

Jacob and Daddy

Are we done yet?

Is that really you dad? Jacob kept trying to pull on Darren's face. It didn't even scare him!

Cutie

The Loot!

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

Hunt Club Farm

Yesterday we took the kiddos to Hunt Club Farm. We had so much fun together. We started off on a hay ride, then went to the petting farm, played on the giant hay pile, then rode some carnival rides. We had so much fun!



Jacob and Mom on the hay ride.


Me with my kiddos



Giant pumpkin! It's real!!! just kidding.

Daddy and Jake on the Hay Ride

Jacob wanted to grab the goats soooooo badly!

Ethan caught a chicken!

Jacob could not get enough of that chicken. He wanted to grab it so bad! It was pretty funny!

Look at Jacobs face, he has such intent on getting a hold of that chicken!

Jacob still after that chicken! ;)

Weeeeee!

Farmer Jake!

The 6 of us!

Playing in the hay pile! I think they almost loved this the most!

On the Ferris Wheel.

Giant slide. They sit on potato sacks and slide really fast down!

Check Lily out! She was flying!!!! And when she got down, she started laughing and said she wanted to go again! Silly girl! When I saw her flying down the slide I thought for sure she'd start crying at the end, but she didn't!

Thank Heavens for Michaels Craft Store

Our family was hit HARD by a nasty germ and it knocked us out for over half the month of October. I felt like I had been asleep in a bad dream and then when I woke up I realized it was the last week of October, and we hadn't carved pumpkins, gone to the pumpkin patch, done any Halloween crafts..... NOTHING!!!! I almost panicked a little bit, but we knocked it all out a little at a time. I ran to Michaels and found some cute cheap crafts for the kids to do. I normally do something a little more home-made, but I was in a pinch and grateful for something for them to do festive.










Their finished masterpieces!

Halloween Cookies!

We have been sick sick and more sick. Maybe it just seems like that since it started at the beginning of the week and went all week with each kid getting sick right after each other and then I got sick at the end of the week. ANY WAY..... Tonight we're all FINALLY feeling a little better and I had made sugar cookie dough last weekend with the intent of doing this with the kids, but then I ended up freezing the dough since everyone kept getting sick. So we finally were able to make our sugar cookies tonight and the kids enjoyed it. Here are the fruits of our labors.

Ethan focusing hard on his decorating.

Ashton frosting his cookie

Lily with tons of sprinkles and icing

Their masterpieces

Ethan's work

Ashton's work

Lily's work. (notice how much icing is on her cookies!) she doesn't love icing at all! :)

Silly boy

Yummy!

Mmmmm!

Jacob wondering what they are doing and why he can't be doing it also! ;)

Darren helped me ice and decorate the rest of them. We had lots of fun!

Our cute cookies! Our neighbors are going to love us! ;)

Random cute shots of Jacob on Ethan. Had to add these.

Jacob trying to tear Ethan's nose off!

Ethan trying to kiss Jacob and you can see Jacob is not having it!

Last Hurrah

The weather was fantastic this weekend! It's probably the last little bit of "niceness" before the cold sets in. We have been meaning to fly the kids kites that they got for Easter forever now, so we decided to get out this weekend and do it before it was too cold. It was a gorgeous day! The kids had so much fun!!! Here are way too many pics of the occasion! ;)

My cute 6 month old! Sitting all by himself!

Enjoying the weather and the views


Ethan flying his kite

My cute Lily

Ashton flying his kite

Cutie



Her blow up Mickey Mouse kite wouldn't fly to well, but she still enjoyed it.


Darren flying a kite

Trying to hold a baby and fly a kite at the same time. Takes talent.


My scrumptious kiddos

Ma and Pa

*Finito!*

Ethan has this project due on the 3 types of matter. Solid, Liquid, Gas. He had to make 3 categories, define what each type of matter was, and then DRAW 10 pics of each type of matter. That is 30 hand drawn pics people!!! It is finally DONE!! Thank goodness! I will admit to drawing 1 of his pics. But honestly only 1. He really did draw all the rest! Any way, I'm proud of all the work he did! He is pretty proud too!

Simple things

I really don't have anything monumental to post about. Just the in's and outs of our regular every day life. I had some funny pics to post, so here are some random (again) pictures of our latest happenings. The first couple I'm posting because Darren is out of town and can't see that I'm posting these. He would be really embarrassed if he knew I was posting these, but I can't resist! My hubby along with Ethan and Ashton are as "boy-ish" as you can get. Literally any chance they get, take off their clothes and wrestle like cave-men. Well to add to the mix this particular day, they got out the Halloween masks and were acting silly. I grabbed the camera and the first thing Darren said was, "you better not post these!" I assured him I wouldn't, but come on they are funny!

This is where Ethan fell asleep one night. And he would kill me if he knew I posted this as well! I guess I'm in a rhythm tonight of posting things I shouldn't! he he he!!!! :)

Enjoying the last of this season's nectarines and peaches. We're sooooo sad they will be gone soon. We have loved them so much! Yummy juicy-ness! ;)

Can you tell my family loves Halloween and all it's props?

My favorite baby in the whole world. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this baby so much!

Did I mention how much I LOVE him? Just in case... I Love Him!!!! ♥

That's all for now folks! I'll sure be glad when the hubby returns! Every time he leaves something retarded ALWAYS happens. I kid you not! Every single time!!! This time, Lily flushed a wash cloth down our toilet yesterday. Long story short, and all my towels and blankets later, the plumber finally came 8 hours later, and my home is no longer a swimming pool. ugh! That's all I want to say about that for now! :)

Random

A few recent pics.

Jacob in his booster seat getting ready for his baby cereal!

Crazy hair day at school.

Ethan fell asleep on our couch in the den, and our "zoo" followed him.

Jacob eating carrots and rice cereal! yum, don't you wish you could eat that? ;)

First Day of School!

School has finally come once again. The boys were excited and they did really well. Ashton was a trooper. He couldn't wait to get out the door and onto the bus! The house was very quiet after they left. But it's always good to get back into the swing of things. Here are some shots of the boys on their first day!

Ethan


Ashton (Does he look excited?)





Waiting at the bus stop with the neighborhood friends.

The bus lady was so cool! She saw that I had a camera in my hand and she said come in here and take a picture of them on the bus! So cute! I know I won't be able to do that for long, because it won't "be cool", so I'm glad I got these pics to remember! ;)

Jacob is how old???

5 months!!!! Where does time go??? Here a few pics of my fast growing ball of joy baby!!! We love him sooooooo much!!!!


Jacob and Lily. (His second mother) :)

My neighbor has a daughter that is exactly one week younger than Jacob. They are cute together!

I laughed so hard at the picture. I was trying hard to get a cute picture with Jacob and Yoda. But Jacob was not in the mood. He was so cranky. And this picture looks like Jacob is yelling at yoda! "GET OFF MY BLANKET!!" So funny!