Happy Halloween

My Mom and Dad came over for the afternoon on Thursday just to visit, bring the kids a Halloween treat and to see Lindsey. :) It worked out well because Preston had his preschool Halloween party that night and so they got to see the kids in their costumes. My Mom had given the kids cards in their Halloween bags so she was playing a game with them.

Kyle and I went to a Halloween party on Friday. Kyle went as a farmer with his chicken and I was his wife the witch. hee hee, cackle cackle.

Lindsey as the chicken. She stayed toasty warm. Kate wore this costume and Lindsey looked just as cute in it as Kate did. I loved her round chubby face sticking out and wanted to kiss her cheeks all the time. SO cute!

Arrr! Preston the Pirate. He did well dressing up this year. The last couple of years he kicked and screamed while getting dressed. He liked being a pirate and even knew what to say when trick-or-treating. He would also say, "Happy Halloween!"

Preston with his preschool teacher Miss Ellen. He likes her.

Miss Ellen reading the 5 Little Pumpkin book to him that he loves. This was at his preschool Halloween party and Preston was reading this book to himself over and over. They also had crafts, games for the kids and trick-or-treating. It was for families and my parents were here too so we all went and had a good time.

We put these silly glasses on Lindsey and laughed whenever she would look around with them on as if nothing was wrong! It was hilarious!

Kate was a witch and has been talking about her costume forever so she was excited to wear it 3 days in a row for different parties. She's already talking about what she wants to be next year for Halloween!

All the kids together in their costumes before our Ward Trunk-or-Treat on Saturday. Kate's eyes are weird in this picture, but I liked Preston's face in this one. It's so "fun" trying to get a good picture of all of them.

Our trunk at the Ward Trunk-or-Treat. We combined with 3 other wards for this activity since our church building burned down. There were a lot of people there so the kids got lots of candy. They had hot cocoa there and since we are Activities co-chairs we had to go early to help out, but it was so much easier than the activity we had planned! The weather even cooperated. It was raining ALL day until like 10 minutes before the activity started and then the rain stopped. We all were so happy about that. It was a fun night.

Kids

I was changing Lindsey into her pajamas and let her just chill for a while. It was fun to see her rolls and she was as happy as a clam.

The kids acting like Lindsey.

Can this count as a family picture?! We need a new one and I'm dreading getting one taken. I just had Preston get his 3 yr pictures and Lindsey got her 2 mo pictures in her blessing dress and that was an ordeal enough. Why are pictures so stressful...yet you want them because it's fun to see them over the years.

Family Night Halloween

For Family Night we carved pumpkins. Kate loved digging out the guts, but Preston wouldn't put his hand in all the way. He wasn't so sure about that slimy stuff.

The kids hovered around Kyle, the master carver.

Each kid picked what shapes they wanted for the eyes and noses. Here they are so proud of their Jack-o-lantern's. The pumpkins are called Jack-o-lantern's according to Kate because they are carved now. ha.

Pumpkin Patch Fun

Even though we live in a city there are plenty of pumpkin farms around. My friend and neighbor, Darbi, gave us a pass to a pumpkin farm around here and they weren't going to use it. We went to The Farm and it was a lot of fun. There were lots of activities for the kids like jumping off hay bales into hay, playing in corn, going down plastic tube slides, playing on a playground, going through a hay maze through an old barn and coming down a slide, riding a cow train, petting animals, watching a duck race and riding on a tractor hay ride. And, of course, there's the yummy food: corn dogs, roasted corn on the cob, cider donuts, cider, scones, caramel apples and more. This pumpkin patch has a corn maze shaped like the state of Washington so as you go through the maze you are on highways around the state and you can learn about different towns and cities in our state. We even found the Vantage Bridge. :)

Catch-Up

About a month ago, Jeff and Sadie came to my parents house and Lindsey and Reagan met for the first time. Reagan is a week older than Lindsey. Here they are with my Mom and Lindsey was not cooperating for picture time.

My niece Aubree got baptized a couple weeks ago in Tri-Cities. She was SO excited for this day and we are excited for her too. My Mom made her dress. Jeni made a yummy dinner for all the family after the baptism. It's crazy to think she is already 8 yrs old because I remember when she was born while we were both living in Cheney going to school. I would come home from a stressful day of school and go to Jeni's and just hold Aubree. It would make my day better.

Before the baptism, we went to visit my Grandma Joyce in the Care Center she is staying at. She had hip replacement surgery and is in the Care Center for a little while to recover. Even though the kids were loud for a place like that I was glad we stopped by to see her. She was excited to see Lindsey again.

Kate and Preston playing play-doh and Lindsey watching them. The kids thought this was funny.

I'm in need of boy dress up clothes! He has started to dress up into "costumes" with Kate. I keep telling him dresses are for girls. I need to get him some manly costumes.

Office Upgrades

We lived amongst this mess...

and this mess for 3 days while we put down wood floors in our office and painted. I felt like a hoarder because we only had certain pathways we could walk to get around the kitchen. It's just amazing how much crazier life can feel when your house is such a wreck!

Here it is all finished! I didn't take a before picture- bummer. Just imagine cheap stained grey carpet. Ha ha.

Kyle did a great job putting the wood floor down. It's the flooring from Costco so it's like putting a puzzle together. Very tricky especially around the doors. We love it. You can tell the room is already colder and louder though because of the wood. We come in this room from the garage all the time so the carpet was disgustingly dirty. With fall and winter coming it will be nice not having to worry about dirty shoes making a mess of the carpet. I painted the walls Humble Gold(my sister Marci has this color in her house and she got it from my Aunt- it's a beautiful yellow) and it goes well with the floor and the black furniture.

Our next project...new carpet in our front room. We have really cheap carpet that came with the house so anything different will be an upgrade.