Tuesday, November 1, 2011

To the Pumpkin Patch we go!!!!!!!!!

So we have been trying to make it a tradition of sorts to get our hinies to the pumpkin patch every year around Halloween. My main purpose this year of going was to get some pumpkins to carve. I really wanted to that this year. Turns out that I had forgot all about us needing pumpkins for the Sunday School social so we ended up using our pumpkins for that instead. Oh well. We still have fun. See these faces? They didn't care what we were getting the pumpkins for!






We really enjoyed the hayride that took us back to the pumpkin patches.










So we finally made it to the pumpkins. Now to find the PERFECT one!







Found one!!! (Keep in mind now that this was only the first one he picked up. He ended up putting it back and finding another one. Putting that one back and finding yet another one. We ended up having to tell him that the next pumpkin he picked up was HIS!!





STRONG man!!!! Having difficulties. :)



Grace found one just her size. Small and petite!



See our pumpkins?


I love Graces face in this one!








Ut oh! Now WE are the pumpkins!!
















Cuties on a haystack. :)









After we got done pickin our pumpkins and enjoying our hayride, we got ice cream!!!









Perfect ending to a perfect day!


Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween!!!!

I would like to introduce to you: Jessie and Buzz Lightyear. As you see in the picture below, Jessie is just the cutest southern cowgirl in the south. She can swoon your socks right off your feet with that precious little face of hers. Not leaving out Buzz, oh no. His southern charm will make your head spin. All though here lately, there must be to much space litter clouding his thoughts because he hasn't been the charmiest boy there is! :) (You like my made up word don't you?)






















Buzz and Jessie had a "social" event to attend. Yes, they are popular! Their parents Sunday school class got together to celebrate Halloween they good ol' hospitable way they knew how. Below is a group pictures of all the cute little people in their costumes. Jessie, of course, is not present in the picture because her mom took away Buzz's wings from her. Buzz should know that he can't fly without his wings! And Jessie should know that the wings only work on Buzz. Mom should know better than to take something away from a 2 year old Jessie! (Especially right before a picture!!!)
















At this social event, there were pumpkin paintings!!!! Since some of the smaller kids couldn't handle paint then the parents (this time, I assuming after some lessons learned) decided to give the kids markers and stickers to "paint" their pumpkins! :)



















Who wants candy???? (of course Jessie raises her hand. She has an addiction to sugar like it's a drug!! Funny story coming up soon!)











Patiently waiting for the Piniata!























So then there was this thing at school. The school wasn't allowing the children to dress up this year for whatever reason. But we made the best of it. It was Red Ribbon week and Friday was designated for Tie-Dye or Peace sign day. After deciding there was not a Tye-Die shirt to be found, I made him one. The teachers loved it and wants me to make them one as well! HA! Okay back to Halloween. The room teacher decided with the teacher that Halloween was going to be full of candy anyway so we did a practical life lessons instead. The students were given a sugar cookie. They were to spread their icing onto the cookie and then were allowed to pour sprinkles on top. The children loved it! Of course Christian didn't want his sugar cookie. He is definitely not my child who enjoys sweets!!!






















So that just covers up to Friday. Friday evening the children were invited to a Halloween Bash that a friend of theirs were throwing. There were swings..........






















Face painting..........................



























































And hayrides!..................

















Not to mention, the enormous amount of food, the bouncy house (which my children refused) and the trampoline! FUN times!!!!

Saturday brought us another Halloween "party" with another pinata, candy making, pin the tail on the donkey and just good ol' fashion play time! I took my camera but, gasp!, didn't use it. I did however get some video of the pinata action and a few still shots with my iphone camera.

Now, I bring you Halloween day/night. God is so gracious to us. Have I mentioned that lately? It started raining here around 10:30am. Suppose to stop around 3, but it never did. Actually it was raining pretty hard around that time. So we started making alternate plans. We were going to meet up at a friends house around 5:30 and head over to the mall to trick or treat. I didn't like the idea, thinking how crowded it was going to be!!!! I know of kids all over that was praying for the rain to stop. I know some big kids who were doing the same (me.). We got in our car to go over to our friends house. No rain. I could actually see the sun for the first time that entire day. Makes me want to cry to think about how God knows our deepest wishes. And cares enough about us to give it to us occasionally. Jesus loves the little children, my how that song is so true. He loves them so much that He did not want to disappoint them by raining on their parade. SO.....we decide to go to a nearby neighborhood. WOW! When we pulled in the cars had already lined the streets and there were children and parents EVERYWHERE!!!! Kids running from house to house, parents running after them, some on foot, others in golf carts. I mean, it was JUST like when I was a kid going trick or treating!!!! How AWESOME that my children were experiencing that!!!! I was so scared that the trick or treating I had done as a kid was fast becoming obsolete.
Once again, God is good. Gives us our hearts desires. Wow.


Ok, again, meet Buzz and Jessie.






















Jessie kept wanting to "YEE-HAWW!!!!" for my camera.




























Our first house. Buzz thought it was like a store where you can say "oh I don't want that one, I want this one". Thankfully the man thought it was funny and cute and just gave in to Buzz's demands. Maybe he was scared of getting lasered.

















Took some time to get the children to understand they had to say trick or treat to get candy. Then of course to remember to say thank you after they got it. Yes, I want well mannered trick or treater children. :)














So, I promised a funny story a while back. Remember I spoke about Jessie's addiction to sugar? Ok well. After we left the very first house (which was a friend of Mandy's, who we went trick or treating with) we had a short drive to get to the neighborhood which we stayed the rest of the night. Of course the children had to be buckled and in doing so dad took Grace's bucket of candy and put it on the floor. You would have thought we were beating her to death. She screamed to the top of her lungs, "I WANT MY CANDY BACK!!!! I WANT MY CANDY BACK!!!! I WANT MY CANDY BACK!!!!!" And they were not full crying yells. Oh no. They were full of anger too. Looks like we need not only rehab for her sugar addiction but we may need to see about anger management classes too. Hmmm, I wonder if they take them that young? :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!