Halloween Madness!

This weekend has been full of Halloween fun! We started on Saturday morning by the kids and Josh coming to the Halloween party that a group I am on puts on every year... There are games, crafts, prizes and candy for all the kids in town and they have a lot of fun! Then tonight we had meatball monsters and mashed potatoes snakes for supper and headed out to go trick or treating! They hauled in the loot and we didn't even go to any extra houses this year - pretty much friends and family! By the end they were both wound up from all the candy consumed in the car going from house to house and dead tired from the excitement... We had time for ONE LAST piece of candy and baths and they all dropped off to bed! What a great weekend!

1st Snow!

So last night was a little crazy around our town! The winds were whipping all day yesterday, they say up to 60 miles an hour... We lost power for a little bit in the afternoon, but the kids and I still made it to ECFE! As we walked out, we were greeted with the first snowfall of the year, whipping straight into our faces, along with slush galore!! Throughout the night we lost power from about 1:30-5:00 in the morning, which made for a fun night of the kids each waking up bawling that it was too dark in their rooms! Luckily a little calming down was all it took and they were all back to bed until morning... Which led to the kids all begging immediately as soon as they got up to go outside and play in the snow! Hence the darker sky in the pictures - they were dressed, fed and outside by about 7:30 today!!

Bella and all her gear!!

Bella - still a little tippy in all her gear!

Eion

Ellie

Beau

Beau and Ellie

Brody

A great place to read...

I just got all the kids down for nap and ran to take a potty break when I heard footsteps in the hallway. I came out and couldn't find the culprit, but I saw an open door. I quietly went into our bedroom (one of the daycare kids was sleeping in there) and heard rustling in that bathroom! I turned the corner and this was what I saw...


And this is what I heard - "I gotta go poop mom, get outta here..." So, of course I had to grab the camera, cause that's what a great mom does! :)

Halloween Fun!

Sunday was a day of big Halloween preparing! :) The kids and I made cut out cookies on Saturday, so we sat down and decorated them on Sunday. Then after naps we busted out the pumpkins and went to work on creating a few masterpieces! Bella dug right in, wanting to help clean out every pumpkin... Beau disappeared a few times to watch cartoons because he just couldn't handle the feel of the pumpkin guts! In the end we got some cute pumpkins, mostly due to Josh and I doing a lot of the cutting - but it was still fun! :)

Family Bowling!

Brody has been begging us to go bowling for the past few months, so we finally had the time to go and the kids had a blast! Bella even bowled for the first time and ended our game with a strike!! Thank goodness for the ramp! :)

Beau celebrated every roll like he was bowling strikes every time!

Brody - he was too big to use the ramp!

Miss Independent had to carry her own ball!!

Bella

Pumpkin Patch Fun!

Saturday we checked out another pumpkin patch that was around Sebeka. This one was wonderful!! The kids had so much fun and there was a ton of things for them to do. Beau has a little "chicken whisperer" in him I think - he walked into the chicken pen and just picked up every chicken that he walked up to! :) It was a little chilly and we had to bust out the winter jackets, hats and mittens, but the kids had a blast!

Angry Eyes...

Bella has the best angry eyes that I have ever seen. I mean, if you do something to annoy her - you can really tell without her even saying a word! Unlike Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story, she doesn't need to pack her angry eyes, she has them with her whenever she needs them! :) Today's angry eyes were due to mom bringing out the camera... I'm telling you - it doesn't take much! :)

Fire Station...

The preschool classes and ECFE got to go on a trip to the fire station. I had another obligation that night, so my mom "got" to take the kids over to the field trip. Sounds like all went well and everyone had a great time!

Brody, Gavin, Parker

Beau

Bella

Brody

Beau, Bella, Brody

Pumpkin Patch!

Today we went to the berry farm where we pick strawberries... They have a pumpkin patch, along with a hay bale maze and hay rides! The kids enjoyed it when we went last year, so we decided to go again this year. Talk about crazy weather differences though... Last year it was freezing and we were bundled up in jackets, hats and gloves. This year - tank tops and shorts! Gotta love MN!!

Mason, Gavin, Parker, Megan, Beau, Brody, Bella, Kolby, Zoe

Hayride!!

Bella and Josh

Beau and Parker

Bella

Bella heading down the "slide"

Beau

Brody

My little monkey!

Bella has taken to climbing up on everything! I was worried about Beau sleeping on the top bunk of their bunk beds, which he does and is just fine by the way... Well, Bella has taken it upon herself to climb up there many times, just to play. Getting up isn't usually the problem, it is the getting back down where we have issues! Here is another predicament that I found her in just this morning! Of course mommy had to take a picture before I helped her down! :)