Monday, October 27, 2008

Busy Weekend in October

SATURDAY:

We went to Nate's brothers house for an amazing Halloween party. Jade always delivers in the party department. When we first got there each kid colored their own sack to put all of their treats in. She made a ton of food, all of which was Halloween themed and very cute. The games were amazing. There was a hay dig and I am not kidding when I say Aubree got 2 pounds of stuff out of the hay. The kids partnered up and sprayed each other with silly string (to make mummies out of each other). They had a relay race which included a sack race, carrying candy corn with a severed arm, bobbing for apples and eating a donut off of a string. They were all dressed up in their costumes which always makes it more fun. Anyway, Thanks Jade it was awesome.

This is the cutest Kitty Cat ever! Braunson and Keifer. Keifer brought his costume with him but never put it on. I think he thought he was too old for it but of course they are never too old for the candy.
Nate had to sort through her sack from the hay dig. It was 80% hay. She was just grabbing hand fulls of whatever she saw.
The cute little witch here is Coco.
I thought this was so precious. Aubree pretty much thinks she is Gracie's mom half of the time. She loves her so much.
Gracie is a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.... oops, I mean San Diego Chargers. Just Kidding-Uncle Mike!
Kaid said that this hat kept everybody from reading his mind. Another example of too old to dress up but never too old for the candy.
Braunson was......, um I forgot what he called it exactly. But he was super cute!
Piper was a dead bride, the cutest dead bride ever.
This little kitty cat and witch love to play together. I wish we lived closer to them.
FRIDAY:
Syracuse City has a pumpkin walk every year for Halloween. They have over 1,000 carved pumpkins all set out to display. The line is always forever long and it is usually pretty cold out but that is part of the fun. The kids love looking at all the different pumpkins and there are some pretty amazing ones. I have decided to make it a tradition to go to our house after the pumpkin walk and have pizza, and do some kind of fun Halloween thing with the kids. This year I bought really cute pumpkin kits from Walmart for the kids to decorate their pumpkins with. It's a ton easier than actually carving them because the kids get to do it themselves. The funniest of all is the donut game. This idea came from Aunt Heidi of course. You tie a donut on a string in front of them and they have to race each other trying to be the first one to eat the entire thing without any hands. It is hilarious!!!!



Roedy said that the blue pipe cleaner on his face was his beard and he was really proud of coming up with that idea. Shadie cracks me up...look at that face.
Kenlee wasn't able to come to the pumpkin walk, she had a previous engagment (another Halloween party). She is growing up so fast. I am glad Kenlee and Darby got to come over later, we really don't get to see them that much.
Shadie's pumpkin was a pig, it even had a tail.
Please take note of the many faces of Shadie, she is adding a new face to every picture.

Kamryn is so adorable, she just walked around checking everybody out. She is always so happy...unless you are at the pumpkin walk. Then you better watch out.

K, funny story about my Ryker D. I am sure everybody knows that he is really allergic to eggs. Well the only donut that we could find that he could eat is the raspberry filled powdered sugar ones. He was so excited that he actually got to play this game with the other kids. So there they are all 3 of them lined up in a row ready to go. And he just starts bawling... hard. The kind of cry that just breaks your heart. After a few minutes of trying to figure out what was wrong it came out that he just wanted to eat the donut and was pissed he couldn't use his hands. We were all laughing so hard but trying to hide it from him because he was so upset. After he ate the entire donut with his hands we let him do it again and this time he did it right. His face was covered in powdered sugar and he couldn't have been happier.


It was so sad, after they were done Kenlee's neck hurt from eating her donut she was crying for a second. She got over it fast though.
The tongue is the key, just ask Shadie. Oh yeah, and you have to put you hands on your hips.

I am pretty sure this is Shadie, could be Roedy though.
You'll never guess who these turkeys are. Gosh, they're cute!
Baby Kam didn't catch on to what was so cool about the pumpkin walk. She pretty much told all of us that we have a few screws loose for standing out in the freezing weather. She insisted STRONGLY that she be taken back to the warm truck for a cat nap.
Funny thing about the picture: we have no idea who the guy is behind Shadie. Guess he wanted in on a picture? Who knows.....
On top of all of this stuff we did, Aubree and I also went to see High School Musical, and loved every minute of it. It is really cute and kept her attention too. All in all we had an awesome weekend. We love Halloween at our house and all of the friends, family and traditions that come with it.

Aubree is so cute

A couple weeks ago when we went fishing Aubree kept saying "I can't believe that we are fishing as a family". She acts like we never do anything together. Anyway it was really funny. When we got home Nate glued the lid on to this jar, cute a hole in the top and wrote "Family Fun" on the outside. He told her that all of our extra change could go in here and then when we get a whole bunch we can go do something really fun with the money. Needless to say she has been on a mission ever since. She even snuck out to the garage into my car one evening to get all the change out of my car and purse to put in the jar. One night I had piles of clean laundry all over the couches and she jumped up on the couch and heard the unmistakable sound of "money" clanking around. She couldn't tear the couches apart fast enough to get the money. I thought it was so sweet. We hope to go to Disneyland for her Birthday next year so we need all the extra money we can get. We are thankful she is so willing to go the extra mile.







Friday, October 24, 2008

Easy Bake at Grandma's

Every other Friday Aubree goes to Nate's Moms house AKA Grandma Trish's. Aubree loves to go there, I think it may have something to do with being spoiled out of her mind and being able to do anything she wants at anytime. The best part is that Trish really plays with her and does anything Aubree wants. She definitely rules the roost over there. We are so thankful for both of Nate's parents, they never miss an activity, a dance recital or a soccer game. They are awesome grandparents and Aubree is lucky to have them.


Monday, October 20, 2008

FRIGHTMARES

On Sunday we went to Frightmares at Lagoon. Thank goodness for Darby and being so nice in giving Aubree and I discount tickets so it only costs an arm to go instead of an arm and a leg. We went with Darby and Kenlee and even though there is a big age difference between the two girls they have so much fun together. Darby and I had my our feelings hurt on more than one occasion because they didn't want us to ride anything with them. If it was a big ride that they had to ride with an adult they were seriously bugged that they had to ride with their "Moms".... stinkers!!!! It was a perfect day though, the weather was perfect and the lines were short.



Yes, her hair is even shorter. Don't tell anybody but I accidentally took her to Dollar Cuts. Which is usually fine because I know the girl that owns the salon and she is awesome and has been doing hair for years and years...... BUT, she wasn't there so I just let some other girl do it and it was so not OK. I took her back in to have Michelle fix it which she did happily but it had to go a lot shorter than I would have liked. Everybody that sees it says it is darling and it is. It's just a little shorter than what I would have chosen. It is pretty hard to make my daughter not be cute because she just is, so I guess I won't worry.


I think this is the cutest picture. Aubree and Kenlee are gorgeous little girls!


Friday, October 17, 2008

To the Pumpkin Patch with Pre-School

On Tuesday Ryker and Aubree got to go to Black Island Farms Pumpkin Patch with their Pre-School class. It is one of the best ones around, I know it is far out in Syracuse but it is definitely worth the trip. Aunt T and Baby Kam got to go too (Thanks Aunt T for the pictures) I couldn't go because of work, darn it!!!! They got to pick out their own pumpkins right from the field, they have farm animals to look at, blow up bounce houses, a giant slide made out of hay bales and a fun little train ride for the little ones. They had a blast and can't wait to carve their pumpkins.






Princess Kiera

There are only a handful of people that make me feel ancient. One of them is my niece Kiera. She is a senior at Northridge High and is one of the most gorgeous girls I know, inside and out. I really feel like her hair should still be in pig tails and she should be playing with dolls but it's true she is 17 years old, I can't believe it. She was voted Homecoming Princess which means she was 1st runner up to the Queen. In our book she is the queen and we love her to death.