Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Halloween Festivities


Following tradition, we went to Red Butte Garden's After Dark Party and had a fun time.  The kids each got to paint their own pumpkin.  Katie kept her hat on her head for a whole 2 minutes!    She made a cute butterfly though.
 Here are the pumpkins all painted.  Sarah was Cinderella this year and Isaac was a gorilla (for this event).
 Sarah was chosen to be part of the storyteller's story.  She was a little nervous at first but she did great.


 Well this year for Halloween I decided to print out some patterns to use carving the pumpkins.  I chose Mickey Mouse, Sarah chose Rapunzel and Isaac made his own creation. I think they turned out pretty well!

 I volunteered in Isaac's classroom to help with the Halloween Party.  They had a fun time doing all sorts of activities and games.  Sarah and Katie came too!  When it was time for the kids to do the costume parade, Sarah just had to be involved.  Mrs. Adams didn't have a problem - thankfully!  They weren't allowed to wear their masks so here is Spiderman without his mask on.
 All ready for Trick-or-treating.  It was so warm I couldn't put Katie in that hot outfit so she was a cute cheerleader instead.  Warmest Halloween ever - 76 degrees.



 Gary took the kids around the neighborhood while I kept Katie to pass out candy.  I was having a blast getting her to crawl back and forth to get the candy bowl.  Yes I let her succeed each time - well till she tried to put it in her mouth.  I have some darling video clips but can't get them to upload.  You can check it out on facebook if interested.


Thursday, November 1, 2012

Pumpkin Patch

Behind our house is an open field that has been sold to a developer sadly, but till houses are built the farmer has continued to plant crops.  This year we watched hundreds of cantalope, watermelon and pumpkins grow.  I had been wanting to go and take the kids pictures with my dad's camera and here are the results.  I now know why it requires help with more than one child to take pictures.  The 2nd picture I took of all of them turned out the best.  Here are some additional ones too.

 Isaac
Sarah
 Katie
 I could not get her to look at me.  So I kept moving to where she was looking, just to have her turn her head.  I started laughing at this point and gave up.  Cute profile!

They were so done by this point, so I was having them say funny words trying to get them to at least look at me.