Halloween - Twice!! Lucky Kids!!

We had a fun couple of nights! Our ward did their activity the night before Halloween. They had a carnival going on inside and then Trunk or Treat outside. It was a fun night overall, Grandma Moses came down and spent the afternoon with us and then went to the church with us. The kids don't see her very often so they had a lot of fun hanging out with their Grandma from the beach. That's what they call her!

The next night for Halloween we weren't sure if we were going to be able to go out because they were predicting rain, but around 10am it stopped raining and the clouds cleared out. It ended up being a really nice warm night, and the kids had a blast trick or treating from door to door. Aron drove us out to a really nice neighborhood in Camas. Most of the houses were decorated and they all gave out lots of candy! One house the lady gave them both a big candy bar each and then a little stuffed toy. Abby got a witch and Dalan got a bat. For the rest of the night Abby cared more about her little witch then she did her candy basket. She kept telling us how much she loved her little new dolly and then that night when she went to bed she had to sleep with it. It was a good year, and one of the first that Aron was able to spend with us, that was the best part!

Thursday night for the carnival all ready to go, the ferocious pirate and the beautiful butterfly!

He tried so hard to eat the donut without using his hands but just couldn't quite get it. He eventually gave up and I tore it off for him to eat (I shared a little with him)



Abby didn't even want to try so Grandma and her shared a donut by just taking one!

I braided her hair into a halo and then wrapped the ribbon around it. I thought it turned out adorable!

The outfit she picked out is actually a fairy, but the moment she saw it she said it was a butterfly and that's what she wanted to be. The little girl in the picture also had on pink shoes, so she insisted right away that mom was going to buy her pink shoes to go with her butterfly costume. Of course I ended up buying her some pink shoes!

This is Halloween night. She went to sleep in her hairdo from the night before, but by the next night it was ruined. So I changed it up a little and did two braids and still incorporated the ribbon in there. They both turned out cute I thought.

He was trying to give me a scary pirate look, I don't think it turned out.

When it was all said and done they ended up with a lot of candy and a couple of fun nights!

TAG!!

Okay so I have been really, really behind in my posting. So thank you cindy for tagging me and making me update my blog. It has taking me all morning, but I am now up to date.
And here goes....

Eight TV shows I love to watch
1. The Office
2. Dancing with the Stars
3. Amazing Race
4. John & Kate Plus 8
5. Little People Big World
6. My Name is Earl
7. Anything on TLC
8. America Funniest Home Videos with my Kids (they think it's hilarious)

Eight things that happened yesterday
1. Got up sick and tired
2. Feed the kids breakfast
3. Had to take a morning nap because I was feeling sick, sinus cold
4. Put together a bookshelf
5. Finally unpacked our movies and games to go on the bookshelf
6. Had to lay down again - sick
7. Made dinner for kids and myself, aron worked all day and night!
8. Played phase 10 the elmo version with kids

Eight of my favorites places to eat
1. Red Lobster
2. Olive Garden
3. Hunans (favorite family chinese restaurant)
4. Rib City
5. Muchas Gracias
6. Burgerville
7. Don Pedros (Best Breakfast Burrittos)
8. Red Robin

Eight things I'm looking forward to...
1. Tonight's Halloween party at the church!
2. Thanksgiving Dinner!
3. The birth of my 3rd Child!
4. Christmas
5. Decorating the Christmas tree with the family
6. Anytime with Aron that I get!
7. The New Year and what it will bring
8. Visiting my sister and her family, and friends sometime next year

Eight Things on my wish list
1. My little girl to come out healthy and strong
2. Stress free holiday season
3. Lose ALL my baby weight
4. Aron to be successful in his new career
5. Buy our first home next year
6. Aron and I to go skiing sometime this winter @ Mt. Hood
7. More dates with Aron
8. A million or more dollars!

Let's Carve!

We finally made time to carve pumpkins Sunday night. The kids have been asking since we went to the pumpkin patch, and they have known since then exactly how they wanted their pumpkins to look. Abigail was set on a happy pumpkin, and she described to Aron how she wanted it. Two triangle eyes, not a triangle nose, she wanted a circle nose, and a happy smile with teeth showing.

Dalan on the other hand has been set on having an angry pumpkin. He also wanted triangle eyes, but was set on having some eyebrows that were angry. Aron had to redraw the eyebrows several times to get it to Dalan's liking. He then wanted an upside down triangle nose with an angry looking mouth with scary teeth.

Aron did an awesome job drawing the faces and carving out the faces but wanted nothing to do with cleaning the pumpkins out. He doesn't like to get his hands dirty and neither did Abby! So Dalan and I cleaned the pumpkins out!

I think this was the only time Abby actually contributed to the process, she poked out the eyes and nose!

She was so proud of her little happy pumkin!

Dalan was watching Aron very closely to make sure he got everything just right!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

PuMpKin PaTCh FuN!!

I found a really cool pumpkin patch farm out in Oregon next to Aron's dads house. We headed out there, they had TONS of stuff for the kids to do! There were all kinds of activities for them and then when they were done playing we went on a hayride were they dropped us off at the corn maze. It seemed like we were lost in there forever, we just kept walking and walking and the corn is so tall you can't get your bearings. But we finally made it out to the pumpkin patch and the kids each picked out their pumpkin with the help of Dad! He is kind of picky when it comes to the pumpkins shape and color. We did finally get some and ended the day buying a few items at their little market. It was great family FUN!

Some of the attractions or activities they had for the kids!

This hay maze was one of the kids favorite. They had 5 0r 6 different tunnels going on in there.



This was a pile of filbert nuts they could jump in and play with, Abby was a little timid about this, but Dalan dove right in!

They had these black tubes set up on a hill. The kids would get in and then roll down the hill. Dalan had a blast, spinning around and around! Abby being the girly, girl she is wouldn't even think about getting in one!

Abby did have lots of fun at this slide! Actually we couldn't get her to stop. It was a pretty big slide and with the burlap bags they flew down so fast. I actually thought she would be scared and cry, but she loved it!

Hayride time!

The little chicks with their picks!

Let's Paint!

We really haven't been crafty at all lately and Abby kept asking if she could paint, so I finally dug out the paints from a box and cut out these paper pumpkins for them to paint. Abby wanted an orange pumpkin and Dalan wanted blue, I think because his candy pumpkin basket is blue. When they were all done they insisted on displaying their art in their rooms on the wall!