Happy Halloween

The kids have been so excited to trick-or-treat this year!!

We planned to meet up with some friends in the neighborhood and it made it so much fun!  We set the candy on the porch, turned our lights on and headed out!

There are not a ton of kids in our neighborhood, but all the families with kids leave candy out and there are quite a few older couples that participate as well.  Soo... when the kids would go do the door, they were given several handfuls at each house to add to their collections:)  We came home with our buckets filled to the brim with more candy than we could even think about eating!!

It was a fun night and the kids were on a candy high for quite a while when we got home!!

S and her good friend, Shelby Kate!

The whole crew!  We kept getting the two little Iron
Mans mixed up!  It was hard to tell them apart out in the dark!

Random

The last of my hydrangeas:(

C got a good note home!! WOOHOO!!!

This ring and watch have been missing for 11 years!!  We
found them while cleaning out our old dresser.  They'd fallen back
behind a drawer!!!

A cold day at the baseball fields!

S made this tie quilt one afternoon!

Working on their haunted house:)

The finished product!

This is becoming rare these days!

S had a field trip to the Peace Center to see a
magician.  I didn't get to go but got a cute picture
from a another mom friend in the class!

Beautiful sunset coming into the neighborhood!

Dinner with our cousins!

Cousin Sandwich - They LOVE each other!!

Just a day at the park:)

C found a hunting magazine at my hair appt and liked it
so much he five fingered it and studied it in the car!

Found this in my room one afternoon:)

The boys went fishing one afternoon!

Halloween at School

Both kids had Halloween festivities at school today and I ran back and forth between them!  I'm so glad on days like today that they are both there!

I started the morning by helping to set up for C's Fairy Tale Ball and then while the kindergarteners were at related arts and before they started the ball, I spent some time in S's room at her doughnut party and candy math day!

After a bit in S's room, I came back to the kindergarten hall for the Fairy Tale Ball.  The kids have been studying a lot of fairy tales, pretty much since the beginning of school, and this was the culmination of their unit.  Each of the classes hosted different games and activities.  I was helping in C's room making crowns with jewels, markers, crayons and GLITTER!! Oh my!  Glitter everywhere!  It took a lot of table scrubbing to get it all off at the end of the day!  I loved being a part of the day, meeting some other parents, seeing C in action with his friends and just being a part of their fun day!

One of the Three Little Pigs ready to go to school!

Doughnut party with S's class:)

One of the candy math stations!

C's teacher giving final instruction before the Ball began!

Me helping at C's table!

All the kiddos(and parents) enjoyed pizza, snacks, and lots
of sweets outside!

Hollywild

This afternoon we used a Groupon that was going to expire at the end of the month and took a trip to Hollywild Zoo!  It was a nice, relaxing way to spend the afternoon!  It had been several years since we'd been as a family other than doing the Christmas lights.  We went on a safari where we fed the animals, pet lots of the petting zoo animals and then walked through and saw the rest of them!  We'll be back in a couple of months for the lights!!

M's favorite!

All About Fall Today

It has been a fall kind of day around here today!

We woke up this morning, ate a hearty breakfast and went up to the kids' school for a color run.  This is the first time the kids have run a race, so we opted for the 1 mile fun run rather than the 5k.  A very good choice for us!!  S got a side cramp right off the bat, but once she recovered she was actually a pretty good little runner!  C started off way too strong and finished the race on M's back!  HA!!  None of us had ever done a color run before and that was a blast!  Especially since we knew several of the people throwing the color and they were sure to get us good and rainbowed!

After we came home and showered, we went to a new-to-us event that is seriously less than 5 minutes up the road - Olde Tyme Farm Days.  It was a lot of fun and we'll be sure to make this an annual event!  The kids got to ride ponies and a sack swing, we watched them make molasses, ate lots of delicious foods(fried apple pies, apple cider and beans from a large pot over an open fire - all free!!).  We also had a BBQ lunch while we were there.  The entire time we were there the kids kept talking about how much they wanted to live on farm!  By this time we were all getting tired, and a bit cold and opted to come home for the rest of the afternoon!

I got some grocery shopping done, M got some furniture moved and worked on grouting the shower and then carved our pumpkins!  Or, really, if I'm being honest, M carved the pumpkins while I watched and the kids ran around the back yard half playing, half fighting!  It was such a wonderful, family bonding experience - HA!!  But, the pumpkins are now carved!!

Pre-run!  Look how clean!

Post-run

Pure joy!!

Hello Kitty pumpkin

C wanted his to look like his trick or treat pumpkin bucket.