13 Nights of Halloween

Halloween is actually one of my favorite holidays!! This year I decided to try to make Halloween more fun by doing 13 Nights of Halloween....which is basically doing something every night that relates to halloween (this idea came from a friend of mine who does this with her kids and I thought it looked like fun).

So for night #1 the kids and I made ghosts and bats and hung them on the lights above our dining room table.

That night we wore spooky glasses while we ate dinner.

The kids thought these were so fun!!

Pumpkin Patch

 On Tues Oct 18th, Austin's pre-k class took a field trip to the pumpkin patch and me and Kayla got to join him the for the day.

It was fun to watch Austin interact with the kids from his class.

  

 

 

Austin standing in line with his class while holding his sister's hand...it's nice to catch those sweet big brother moments. 

Taking the tractor ride out to the pumpkins....those are BIG wheels!! 

 

 Austin and his pumpkin

 Kayla and her pumpkin

Austin's pre-K class 

And the highlight of the trip for Austin was getting to ride the bus for the first time!! He was excited about that. It was a fun day!



School Carnival

A couple weeks ago we took the kids to the carnival at Austin's school and had a great time.

Austin the pirate and Kayla the princess

I really got lucky with Halloween costumes this year because Kayla got her princess dress on her birthday and Austin got his pirate stuff at Disneyworld (minus the clothes which we borrowed)...so the total cost of costumes this year was ZERO!!!   

 The school classrooms were set up with all sorts of games and the kids had a great time playing all of them.

And of course after every game they got to pick out a piece of candy so that made it even more rewarding for them.  

Austin did great at this game and got all the balls into the hole. He did better than I would have done. 

This game was called "The potty toss!" I thought it was pretty funny. It was a fun night and a great kickoff to all the halloween festivities.

Woolaroc 8K Road Race

I've been looking forward to running this race for the last couple months. I did it last year and though it is a challanging run because of the hills it is also enjoyable because of the scenery. I thought that I had prepared pretty well for the hills but they still were quite a challenge.

I finished with a time of 49 min and 33 sec.....which is over 5 minutes faster than last year!! I was pretty happy about that. Here are some of the other girls that also ran the race--Kelly (Amy's high school friend), Amy (my early morning running partner), me, and Sara (high school friend). It was a good run!!

Time-Out

I have often seen Kayla playing with her baby dolls and putting them in time out.  Well one day she was busy playing with her birthday balloons and I laughed so hard when I discovered what she was doing.  She put all of her balloons in time-out!!  Then she took one of the balloons and held it next to another one and said "say your sorry". Then she tossed the balloon in the other room and said "okay go play".  She did this repeatedly with all her balloons until they all had said that they were sorry. Such a silly girl!!

ABC's

Austin is doing so well in school......I think he actually loves going to school. He walks into the classroom so confidently now and it is fun to see other kids saying hi to him in the hallways. His interest at home in drawing and writing has greatly increased and he is getting really good at recognizing and writing his letters. I just can't believe this little boy is getting so big.