Happy Halloween!!!!

We had a great halloween......all the kids dressed up as pirates this year. I didn't think they would all do a theme and dress alike but we picked out Katelins costume and Rylie wanted to be the same. Owen wasn't on board until he found out we would buy him a sword and he was all about being a pirate. We went to a halloween party at my friend Amy's last night and went trick or treating with Rylies best friend Abby and her parents around her neighborhood.  Living in the country means no trick or treating around our house.

My little pirates this is the best picture I got of the four kids because..........

one of my little pirates was in a very grumpy mood and not even bribery would make her smile!

                                              My little mama loving on our little Evan.

                                             Owen and the sword that sold him on the costume.

 Katelin in a better mood, she is my little candy lover and kept saying "momma, i'm getting a lot of candy!" I don't think she knew what to think about ringing all these door bells and people just giving her candy. She didn't want to quit, I think she would have gone all night if we let her!

 Evan slept the whole time we were out (about an hour and a half), he had his snowsuit, was in a sling against me and had a blanket so he was nice and cozy the whole time.

                                                 The entire crew at the end of the night.

  The kids got a ridiculous amount of candy, notice the little hand in the bottom right corner, i'm sure noone could guess who's hand that is,lol. Sadly she didn't get to eat anymore, i'm not one of those moms who let my kids go crazy with their candy. It will be put up and given out in small quantity here and there until one day several months down the road I throw away what is left.

 My sweet little Evan on his 1st halloween, no costume for him this year just a few cute halloween outfits!

                                               The cutest little pumpkin butt i've ever seen.

I wish I could say this was Katelin all tuckered out after a busy day but this is how we found her before we went trick or treating, and now it's nearly 11:00, the big kids are sound asleep but not my Katelin! That power nap and her sugar high have her going strong. I hope everyone had a great halloween, i'm going to go and get my little pirate to bed now.



Fall Parties and Pumpkin Carving

We had fall parties at school on Friday. Since they aren't allowed to have Halloween parties anymore (which I think is stupid but I guess my opinion doesn't matter on that), they have vocabulary parties. They dress up to match their vocabulary word! Kindergarten does colors but since Owen is morning kdg. they weren't in the parade so he wore his Chiefs shirt since it was also favorite sports team day!

Favorite sports team day. Go Chiefs!

Owen during his class party (notice Katelin by his side eating his treats)

Rylie's class made costumes out of recycled material during school and her word was "silly"! They had their parade and then we went back to her classroom for her party!

The treats I made for Ry's class.

Silly RyRy during the parade.

No outing is complete without Katelin doing something......she soaked herself in the water fountain,
gotta love my crazy little girl!

How cute are they???? She loves to show off her baby brother!

They raced in teams to wrap up a classmate as a mummy.

After a busy day at school we ordered some pizza and carved pumpkins the kids had a lot of fun.

We let Rylie and Owen draw their own faces on their pumpkins and they did an awesome job!

I love how Owen's is so unique to him, it makes me smile everytime I see it!

 Can we say Pumpkin head????

And we can't leave out my little pumpkin...
holding his little pumpkin!

Sleeping, Baking and Hat Day!!!!

Well I am very happy to report that Evan slept throught the night for the first time last night! I laid him in his bassinet at 11pm and he woke up at 6am. I hope he does it again tonight, not expecting it but hoping.

It was also "hat day" at school today for the kids so here are some pics of them with their hats on.

And fall parties are tomorrow so Owen and Katelin helped me bake mini cupcakes for his party and when Rylie got home from school she helped icing them. I'm doing a peanut/mm/candy corn mix in lil' pumpkins for Rylies party.

Ready to make cupcakes.

Teamwork

Katelins already asking when does she get to eat a cupcake!

Mixing our ingredients.

Stirring the batter.

Tasting the batter. (My favorite part)

Icing the cupcakes.

And finally eating a cupcake!

Then we sprinkled them



and our finished treats!

And while we were doing all this......

 my sweet boy sat in his chair cooing and smiling the entire time!



Who would do such a thing??????

We have had a mysterious art bandit leaving their sketches all over the place....

                                bathroom drawer                                   

                                                                    my slipper

                                                                   rubber duck

toybox

                                                                 even the pottychair!

So I put all writing utensils waaaaaaay up high so little fingers can't reach them but...........

                                                  one of them must have escaped because......

                                                          I found this and

                                                             this!

Any guesses on who would do such a thing??????   I will give you a few hints........

She has pretty blond curls, big beautiful blue eyes and the sweetest smile you'll ever see!

Looks sure can be deceiving!!! :)

Yeap! That's right, my wonderful, crazy little Katelin, that's who!!!!