It's beginning to look a lot like....

We woke up to our day off to this and it is oh so snugly and exciting!!!

FHE with our friends...

 Ry was incharge of our Service FHE... She chose to pick up garbage in our neighborhood park. I was not prepared for the darkness that came at 4 stinking 45... I thought I could predict a little better but day light saving really threw me off. Needless to say, we ended up using flashlights. This actually made it more fun to search for trash. Thanks kids for helping our earth. Service is about doing something that makes someone else happy. We had so much fun doing it with friends and having donuts as our treat after.... Yummy!!!

Homework- Diguise the turkey

One of Gator's assignments is to disguise this gobbler so the hunters don't turn him into Thanksgiving dinner. Gator really wanted to make his turkey into Spidey! I help where I can and let him and his imagination do the rest... "It needs an outfit and a mask mom" I am so happy he likes to be in charge of it... 

His tongue also helps with all those fine details... Love!!! 

Finished product! this is one awesome turkey. There is no way the hunters will be able to make him into Thanksgiving dinner.
 

Happy Halloween 2012

We love Halloween so much... I already have ideas for next year... Although I cannot convince my children that I would like to theme them.... I was not in the making costume mood this year. All the best costumes are homemade (in my humble opionion, because my folks always made costumes for me that ROCKED!!!) I just couldn't find the energy this year and so I resigned to using something we had or purchasing... Since Gator won't have a brother to pass his little costumes down to, I decided to sell all of his costumes to Kid to Kid.... I thought for sure I was gonna make a killing because I had 5 amazing costumes, I had included a few of Ry's... Nope, 12.00$ was all that I got... That was enough to get Munch this adorable warm monkey costume... turns out it barely fit our growing girl. I had to put leg warmers with it because the legs kept coming up.... But she was darling... We went to the kids school parade. It was first thing in the morning... 

Gator wanted to be a real-fighter pilot-zombie-dracula..... He opted for just a fighter pilot for school... he didn't want to scare his friends he said....
 

Munch and I helped out where we could at his classroom party...  

Ry is a Monster High girl.... We bought her costume.. The only one I paid for this year... It was a little painful to spend money on, but not terrible... We made this Monster from the make your own doll kit... So even though she isn't one of the regular girls in the show she really is one. We named her Shelly Ton....  

Gator, Munch and I also tried to help at Ry's party....
 

Munch the Monkey
 

Shelly Ton
 

Fighter Pilot-zombie-dracula
 

The pumkins for the year... I didn't even have to get goopy. Daddy and Ry did the ghosty. Papa H did the other two with the kids!!! I love to carve pumpkins but it sure was a nice break... 

 

Day with Ave

We love to have our Ave comes to stay with us and do fun things... We went to lunch at Chick-fil-A then went to Gardner Village to see the witches... I got tired, the kids ran around, I got more tired, Ave chased after them, we got a treat, I got even more tired, whew!!! I couldn't figure out why I was so tired... Oh yeah, I am cooking a baby!! We played the game Life. Mostly we enjoyed our auntie!!! Love you Ave!!!

Daddy and his bike!!

I am so thrilled daddy found a hobby he loves. I am a little slow at posting. Utah marathon, was down town and very early.... but fun! We are usually one of the few cheer leaders for the bike ride. I have promised him that I will try and be as good as him and hopefully we can do this together next year! We just the kids up and took them in pjs. While we were waiting Miss Munchie fell backwards into a puddle. Her whole bootie was soaked and muddy. Ry was in charge of photos that morning because my cameras battery had died!!! So thanks Ry we have some documentation from her IPod.

Make A Wish Halloween

The kids have had a great start on their trick or treating. I am debating if I should divide out the 'good stuff' and give the rest out on Halloween. I think there is a good chance I am going to be a candy recycler. That way we can get rid of the non-awesome stuff. Munchie is going to be a gummie girl.. She is a huge fan of Dots, Mike n Ike's, and skittles. Ry's favorite treats include Air heads, Laughy Taffy, and Jolly rancher chews. Gator just loves it all... Eeeewwww, it's gonna be a crazy tooth brushing time. Maybe I should let them only have it for one day and donate the rest to the teachers prize bins at school? We had a fun time at the Wishing Place. Trick or treating the halls, decorating cookies, and playing spooktacular games!!! Gator was so careful with the frosting. He wanted to make sure everything was well covered. Munchie also loved the cookie decor. She got a little carried away with the sprinkles. In fact, she ended up leaving the cookie all together and put her complete focus on the consumption of those sprinkles. Ry loved the attention from all the teenage helpers. Nothing like being adored by older kids for twenty minutes!!