Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween! Just wanted to share a few of our costume/trick or treating photos. Kaitlyn made us dress up - neither Sam or I would have bothered if she hadn't insisted. The kids had a great time, of course. Tyler thought it was great fun to run down the road following his sister. But boy was he MAAAAAD when Kaitlyn declared she was done and we strapped him in the stroller for a quick walk back home. This was after we had spent probably an hour an a half walking around the neighborhood and not even hitting half the houses - trick or treating sure takes a long time with an almost 2 year old. But as I said - he loved it!

Ok, on to the photos!
Our beautiful princess Ariel (the mermaid).

And our little "King" - Tyler as Elvis! Don't you just love the black hair? It looked adorable but it was a mess and kept rubbing off on things. He had black hands and black streaks on his face most of the time we were out, no matter how often we wiped him off.

Washing it off wasn't a picnic either. What a mess!

But worth it! Well, I think he has finally managed to fall asleep and Kaitlyn will soon be headed there. I kept her up past her bedtime so I wouldn't have to keep getting up to answer the door :) Good night everyone! Hope you had a wonderful Halloween!

Carving Pumpkins

Yep, we left the carving until the last minute. This is because Sam doesn't like it, I'm not in love with it and as we found out tonight, the kids lose interest fast. So we did this for no other reason than because everyone else did it. I really don't want my kids to be shaking their heads when they are 30 and lamenting the fact that they didn't carve pumpkins for Halloween. There. 'Nuf said. :)

The kids were excited for the carving, especially Kaitlyn who had asked many many times today when we could carve her pumpkin. And they had fun for the 2 minutes they spent scooping out the pumpkin seeds but they were soon sick of the process and back on the couch watching Alvin and the Chipmunks (the halloween one). Maybe we should have turned off the TV before we started?
Here is the face Katy wanted on her pumpkin.

And here are the finished products. See, you can tell we don't do this very often. Kaitlyn's is on the left. Think I came close enough to the face? She says no, "it's a mad face." Ahhh well, maybe next year!
Then after all this, poor Katy threw up. We're thinking it's a very mild case of food poisoning - fingers crossed she's ok for all the fun tomorrow!

Katy's Preschool Halloween Party

Kaitlyn has been so excited for her Halloween party at preschool. She wanted to get ready as much as she could by herself and I had a lot of fun watching her. First she painted her nails - pink and blue on her toes, purple and orange for her fingers. Then she worked on her make-up - lip gloss, blue eye shadow, glitter body spray that smelled like grapes and what must have been red lip liner through her eyebrows. I got as much of the stuff out of the eyebrows as I could under the guise of "making it straight" :) But really, don't you think she has a talent for this stuff?
You only get a head shot. I will post the costume shots tomorrow.
So...off she went to the party and she says she had fun though the only thing she can remember doing is eating pizza. When I picked up her up they were taking a group photo and I'm sorry to admit that I didn't even have my phone on me, let alone a camera to take a photo. So I'll have to ask her teacher to email me one.

Ty is rushing me to go outside and play so I'll leave you with this last photo - Katy trying out the glow in the dark teeth that was one of her party favors.

Corn maze

Going to a corn maze has been the ONE item on my Fun Things To Do list this fall that I knew we couldn't miss (other than Trick or Treating of course!). So this morning we headed down to Thanksgiving Point to their corn maze/pumpkin festival. We had a great time though I have to admit that I wasn't really impressed with the maze - and that's not just because we didn't realize when we got to the end and went back through more of it before finding our way out another entrance :) But they did have a great selection of other things for the kids to do. We had to pretty much drag them out of there when we were ready to leave.

Tagged

I've been tagged by BeauDee. This one is easy - This picture is from my 4th folder and its the 4th picture. I tag Audrey, Christina, and Jacalyn. Find your 4th folder and 4th picture in that folder and describe it.

This photo was taken Oct 10, 2006. Kaitlyn was almost 3. Audrey and I had taken the girls to a pumpkin patch/corn maze. In this photo Katy was mad at me for trying to get her to pose for photos. But she quickly forgot her bad mood and had a lot of fun with the girls.

Pumpkins

With Halloween almost upon us we picked up a few pumpkins last time we were at the grocery store. Sam doesn't like carving pumpkins so we will probably just carve one the day before Halloween. Until then, Kaitlyn and I dressed them up for Halloween. Fun huh? Maybe next year I'll start this earlier and do something a little more elaborate.

Witchy Day

Yesterday it was time for The Girls to get together again. This time around Alisha, Cheri, and I decided to check out the witches at Gardner Village. They do a fantastic job decorating out there and we had a great time wandering around looking at everything in and outside the shops. It happened to be the day for their kids activities - and only baby Anne with us so we didn't participate - so the place was packed with all kinds of little ones in cute costumes.

One of the funnest things to see were all the elaborate witch hats. This lady is the main witch for the village who was wandering around signing autographs but there were tons of "civilians" dected out in their own versions. I am seriously considering having us get together next year for a hat decorating day then maybe going to Witches Night (their women's only activities - takes place next weekend for anyone that may want to go check it out). We'll see.

Cheri and I spent most of our time taking photos of decorations we would like to duplicate for ourselves - tons of ideas for future craft days yay!

And I just had to share one of the photos I took of the kids last night while they were playing in the leaves. Isn't autumn just so much fun?!!