Trunk or Treat

I surprised myself this year by not getting too stressed out about costumes. Don't get me wrong-I drove 45 minutes to meet a lady from craigslist for a ghetto "dinosaur" costume that was $5 that I bought only because I drove that far and then sat in traffic on the way home taking 2 hours. A costume that he didn't even wear, by the way. But seriously, Abram decided the day of Trunk or Treat (on Saturday) he wanted to be Spiderman (a costume he got for his birthday last year) and Reese was a cow due to his obsession. I found a cow costume at a consignment store for $4.50-sweet deal. I had to sew it up a little, but no biggie.  Unfortunately, I don't have many pics from the trunk or treat because it's hard to take pictures and hold your kids' hands. Not to mention the battery died on my camera (ugh, I know!)

Happy Cow

MAD cow (get it? Ha ha! and for the rest of the night he wouldn't wear the hat.)

Spiderman and "Peter Parker" Peter stayed at the car and handed out candy. I can't believe I didn't get a picture of the trunk that we decorated!

Just a fun fact, the lady with the side ponytail below (Deb from Napoleon Dynamite-her husband was Napoleon) is Abram's Sunbeam teacher-he LOVES her!! He screamed and hugged her and when we left their car he said she was "the BEST".

The highlights of the night-Reese carried his pumpkin bucket and kept looking down at it-UNTIL he figured out that people put CANDY in it. Then he LOVED it!! He carried that bucked the whole time ans would get so excited and even give his rendition of "Thank you". So cute! The other highlight-our Bishop dressed up as Buddy the Elf!! Awe-some. We ate plenty of candy,the kids ran around with some friends, Reese very lovingly shared all of his candy-meaning half bitten or sucked on slimed up with slobber-shoved in your mouth before you could do anything about it-yummy.



After all of the fun, we packed up our sticky kids and headed home.

Family Home Evening

So I have told you before that Monday night is Family Home Evening. So last week we had a lesson on "Choosing the Right" so we told the boys the scriptures found in the Book of Daniel about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Our kids learn things better when we act it out. So Kris was the wicked King Nebbuchadnezzer and Abram, Reese, and I were Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. We had a lot of fun and talked about how the Lord will protect you when you make good choices just like S,M,A made when they told the King they wouldn't worship the golden image because it was wrong. Then we made Choose the Right shields and "bad choices" were wadded up paper balls that the kids deflected with their shields and shouted out what they should do instead. Then we all took turns the rest of the week wearing the crown.

Afterwards we had caramel apples (Reese's first caramel apples).  I mean after all of that fighting bad choices, it sure works up an appetite.



Sand Pit

We brought our sand turtle to North Carolina. It has sat on our deck until a week or so ago. The weather has been a bit unpredictable, and with 2 boys inside all day....do I really need to say more? So we took a trip to Lowe's and bought some sand.  This has been awesome, especially with the paleontologists we have around here.

To answer a few questions: yes, somedays I do only half dress my kids as evident by Reese's pajama bottoms. Yes, that IS an ugly tarp underneath the turtle-we figured the downstairs neighbors probably wouldn't like bits of sand raining on them as they sat outside on their deck.

Reading to Reese

One of Reese's favorites (it has a cow), one of Abram's former favorites...

("Moo, Baa, La La La" by Sandra Boynton)

Fat Dress

October has been busy-really busy. I don't mind because it has been really fun. We have really gotten into Halloween around here-and between that and a cake decorating class I took---the pounds have piled up.  In fact, I had to wear my "fat dress" to church today......YOU know the one. Where it is super empire waist and everything allowed to "hang" where it does without cutting off circulation?? That's the one. The one I wrote a post about where the lady asked how I was feeling, meaning how pregnant are you? Yah, that one. I am okay with it-just means I need to bust it this month and be healthy (until Thanksgiving anyway). That being said, I am about to do a lot of picture posts, so hang on tight and be prepared for total cuteness.

Abram Turns 4

Abram turned four today. I just put him to bed a few minutes ago, right after I told him about the night he was born. Well, the edited, very condensed for his short attention span version. I got all misty eyed when I told him how he made us a family, and how excited I was to have him. How I had been waiting so long for him. Wow, four years.

Last night I snuck into his room and put balloons over his bed so when he woke up he would see this

Then he opened some presents (dinosaurs of course)

Followed by breakfast (pumpkin chocolate chip waffles)

Even the T-Rex got to have some.

 I asked Abram the other day if he could do ANYTHING on his birthday what would it be. To which he replied, "Play with lots of dinosaurs ALL DAY." So we did plenty of that.

I baked these bad boys last night, froze them, and sculpted today.

I started with a pattern from a dragon-because there were no patterns for this fella, but then it wasn't working, so I made it up. The eyes? Marshmellows, lifesavers, and chocolate chips.

For those of you who don't recognize him, this is supposed to be

That's Abram's favorite show.  We had a couple of friends over for cake and ice cream. When he saw it he said, "This is the best birthday EVER!" Which made the drama of making it totally worth it.

4 years ago you made me a Mommy. I am so proud of you. You are so smart, funny, witty, sweet, tender- hearted. You challange me, make me laugh, and make me so grateful to be your Mom every day. We love you so much my sweet Abram. Happy 4th Birthday!

Green Acres IS the Place to Be!!

On Saturday we went to the Pumpkin Patch (called Green Acres). I took about a zillion pictures, so I will try to narrow it down (translation-this will most definately be a picture post). The biggest hit for Reese was the hayride-why? You ask, well- we got to see cows, and Reese is rather obsessed with cows at the moment.

Uh oh, we have spotted cows.....

.....I repeat, COWS have been spotted!

(They may look a little bit alike.)

I love having two boys.

There were tunnels under hay,

and construction trucks you could climb and "drive",

you could test your strength,

and cows you could milk-or just run from one side to another and scream, laugh, and say "moo",

over priced pony rides,

castles you could climb,

and if you made it to the top-there was a huge slide waiting for you,

there were firefighters there with their fire truck that you could climb in and tell them about your bad dream of a car crash, and how there were fire trucks in your bad dream, but they saved the people in the crash because firefighters are like sUperheroes while your little brother touches stuff he isn't supposed to, and then you can be really sad because they gave all of their fire hats away, and you REALLY wanted a hat,

and THEN if you're a little fella you can play in the pumpkins while your big brother has a melt down over the fire fighter hat and a little pumpkin he wants-because it is SO past naptime-

Then you go home, because even though there is a lot more to do, EVERYONE needs a nap.
The End.