Costumes and Halloween festivities

 Kayden and Carter are always having the mac vs. pc. arguement at our house. Mostly because Carter is having a love affair with his ipod touch and Kayden just likes to get his goat by saying he likes a pc better. Carter takes the bait everytime. I figured we might as well make something from it all for Halloween. 

 Brendan went as Hawkeye from the Avengers. The bow was lost once before we even made it into costume, but luckily reappeared. 

 Hailey as Spider Girl. 

 And miss Emery as a fairy, and the only picture she would put up with was this one I snuck of her walking away.

  And me as a "bad yearbook picture". It won first place at our 

 ward Halloween party, but looking at this picture is a little horrifying. (no the zits are not real). I am usually a Halloween scrooge, but decided to break out of it this year and have a little fun. Embarrassing my kids kinda made it worth it though. 

 

We started the celebrations last week at Hailey and Brendan's school carnival/ trunk-or-treat. Good times were had by all. Then we had our ward Halloween party /chili cook-off. Fun was had there too. And of course, we end it all tonight with a little trick of treating. And I am sure fun will be had there too. Then I am sure we will all be ready for Halloween to be done until next year.

Flippin' good time

Since the kids were out of school on Friday, we decided we better do something with them. Corey got a great deal on Groupon for Flippin' Out so we figured that would be a great way to spend the afternoon. 

We have never been there, but heard it was lots of fun... we weren't disappointed. The only thing I was disappointed about was how fast my kids were moving around because I couldn't get any decent pictures.

Emery started out at the slide. She wouldn't step foot into the trampoline area for quite awhile. She must have gone down that slide 25 times.  Hailey was right behind her each time.

 The boys spent most of the time on the trampolines. There was an employee doing some pretty cool tricks and they were pretty amazed.

 Emery and Hailey did eventually make it on the trampolines too. They loved it and Emery has asked to go back everyday since.

 The boys tried out the slide too. This picture cracks me up because Brendan was actually terrified to go down at first.

 He quickly changed his mind though.

Such a fun afternoon and we will definitely be going back. It's always great to find something that entertains both the older and younger kids. It's great to get all their energy out too. Although they were pretty worn out at our ward Trunk-or-Treat that night though so next time we will do it on a day that we can come home and take a nap!

Expression

I snapped these pictures of Emery while she was coloring last night. This girl still just cracks me up. With so much improvement in her speech we are able to have some pretty funny conversations too. She has quite the personality in that little body of hers.

More of the everyday

We celebrated Corey's birthday over the weekend.

 Doesn't he look thrilled. Actually that's is about as excited as Corey gets...ever. He likes to keep things low key and doesn't even like me to get him presents. I usually at least try to make him a banana cream pie for the occasion. 

 Emery playing outside in her pj's. It was a rare day that we didn't have to be anywhere and she wandered out after breakfast. I was house cleaning and she stayed out there for over and hour. I wasn't about disturb her and worry about getting her dressed at that point.

 Sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. Everyone needs a little reminder every once in awhile especially a certain teenage boy. Now I just need a laminated reminder for the shower to remind a littler boy about actually using shampoo and soap while he is in there. Boys!!! That's all I can say about that.

One of Emery's favorite things to do right now. However cleaning them up is not.

Homework. I kinda don't like it, maybe even more than my kids. Emery always wants to work on some too. It usually consists of me drawing something and her cutting it all up.

Costume Selection

This week I have been trying to narrow down my kids Halloween costume selections so I can start getting everything together. My dainty little girly girls again are making some interesting choices. Hailey is bound and determined to be Spider man. (I had these boys then I get these darling little girls who don't want much to do with all this girl stuff at all... doesn't really seem that fair) I think I have her convinced to be spider girl at least. Emery was wanting to be Buzz Lightyear. She saw the costume at Target on a trip to pick up stuff for Brendan's costume and fell in love with it.  The funny thing is that I had these costumes for my boys already, they wore them out, and it just seems a little ridiculous to buy them again for the girls. I let Emery look through the bin of costumes hoping to find something else to spark her interest. I think she decided on something else. 

Some kind of cowgirl/fairy?! At least we are in the girl category with this selection. And it's progress over last year since she wouldn't get near, let alone put on a costume.