Spooky Fair and Ward Party

I took the kids to a town Halloween fair with booths and fun things to do. They really liked it. Balloons and rides and candy, what else would a kid want? Oh, and digging around for buried treasure! Such fun!

Then we went to our ward party. The kids got to show off their costumes on stage. And they decorated cookies and played games.

Monster Mash!

I had fun throwing my family a Halloween party. Everyone had a blast. I made monster mouth pops and witch fingers and we ate BBQ slugs. We had a photo booth and shadow puppets and told scary stories and had a costume contest. And then we watched Hocus Pocus and Tristan kept saying, "scary" and covering his eyes. It was really cute. Bella, however, is not scared of anything. I love fun holidays and I love doing stuff with my family.

Decorating our Pumpkins

Pumpkin Patch

This fall, we went back to the farm to pick out our pumpkins and have a fun family night. We had a blast going through the corn maze and the petting zoo. The kids love being outside and getting dirty. I love taking my family to the farm each fall.

I told the kids that we were going to the pumpkin patch later that night. When I went to Walmart that day, Tristan got so excited when he saw the pumpkins and started yellin PUMPKIN PATCH! He has been calling every pumpkin he sees since then, a pumpkin patch.

Preschool

Lilly has started preschool and is loving it. She instantly made friends, which was my main concern, while we waited for class to start. I was afraid she was becoming shy, but it didn't affect her. She wasn't nervous at all to start school. In fact, when we went through the gate to go to her class room, she ran ahead and didn't even say goodbye to me. I'm not much of an emotional person, so I was fine. Plus, it's only for 2 hours, 4 days a week. I think I will be more emotional when she goes to all day school. I am just really excited for her to learn new things and have new experiences and make new friends. She has been going for a few weeks now and has the Pledge of Allegiance memorized. I love it when we get home and talk about what she did today and she gets really excited to tell me about something.

I can't believe she went to her first day of school with a missing tooth. She lost it a couple of weeks before school started. And she has two other loose ones. She is so excited to be such a big girl and goes around telling everyone that the dentist said she has the mouth of a 6 year old.

Some fun things we have been up to.

I took the kids to their first Home Depot kid's workshop. They all loved to hammer and build things. Especially Tristan. He was getting so mad when I was helping Lilly build hers. I think we are going to go to many more of these things.

One day it rained so much here that it filled up this ditch on the side of our house. So Clifford took them out and let them splash around in it and have such a fun time.

Walmart is having Baby Days and they were doing cake decorating. I forgot my camera but I took some pics of their finished products when we got home. They had so much fun. I love doing fun things with my kids.

Olympics Fun

It turns out that all my kids love watching the Olympics. They all got so excited when I would turn it on. I bought them gold medals and they love wearing them. I did a couple activities with Lilly which she enjoyed. She got to sort the M&M's and then put them on the ring order. I tried to have Bella and Tristan participate, but they were only concerned with eating them. Lilly also made a fruit-loop necklace with a gold medal. It was a fun time in our house, getting to introduce the kids to different sports. Now Lilly can't wait till the winter Olympics so she can watch the figure skating. And she says she wants to be in the Olympics someday. She is going to be very busy when she grows up, she just keeps adding to the list of what she wants to do.

Our Dog Buster

After my whole life of wanting a pet, my dream finally came true. On a total spur of the moment thing, we were looking on Craig's List at pets for sale and came across this little guy and his siblings. We made an appointment to meet them, not sure we would bring one home. But once we got there, how could we not take one. But they were all so cute and friendly, so choosing was a little hard. One was roly-poly and had stubby legs and I just loved him, but the owner thought he would make a better lap dog and we wanted a playful one for the kids. Buster was playful but also comfortable around us because he lay down right by us and fell asleep. We just knew he was for us. The kids love having a dog and love to chase him around and play with his toys. They even try to feed him their food at the dinner table.

Fun Project

A woman in my ward just had twin boys and I volunteered to make a meal for her family. I also decided to crochet her some Dino hats. These are one of my favorite crochet projects. They loved them and I am glad a took an opportunity to serve others and get to know someone knew in the ward.