"Ocpus" and Batman"

We had a fun Halloween this year. This post is a couple days late, but better late than never. Carson had such a great time trick-or-treating this year. He wasn't totally confused like the previous 2 years! Halli enjoyed walking around collecting treats from everyone. As long as she had something sweet in her mouth she remained happy and walked along with us. Here are a few photos.

We made some fun treats last week for the holiday. The kids enjoyed helping me with them, and loved eating them!

Feeling festive

We took a trip to a pumpkin patch last week with Carson's preschool class. We had such a fun time! They had a fun play area set up so it wasn't boring at all for the kids. We went to a lame pumpkin patch last year that didn't have much to do after you found your tiny little pumpkin. We actually found some decent sized pumpkins this year, and the kids had lots of fun afterwards playing on toys, petting animals, going on a zip line, flying down a huge slide, and climbing all over some hay. Too bad it wasn't a little warmer or we would have stayed a bit longer. Oh well, we enjoyed the time we had! Here are a few of the highlights.

Arrival at the pumpkin patch...not too cold yet.

Check how tall we are

Weighing the options...apparently the one of the left lost the weigh in

I think I've found the one I love

Showing of the pumpkins we chose

Wishing we could take home this MONSTER

You know when there are moments you capture, and they aren't really special, but you just love the photo...this is one of them. I just love her cute little smile and chubby cheeks.

Panda, Poop, and Pumpkins

So it has been a long couple weeks. We all happened to get sick a couple weeks ago, so we have gotten even less sleep than usual. We did manage to make it through Halloween. We carved pumpkins and made fun treats. Carson was a lion and Halli was a panda. Unfortunately most people mistook her for a cow. I had to correct them and say, "Yes, she is a cow... in a panda costume." So yeah, besides being sick and tired, the weather was great and we had fun trick-or-treating. Carson loaded up on candy...we are going to have to help him out with getting rid of all those goodies.















In other good news, Carson went poo poo in the big potty for the first time. Our previous bribe was that we would take him to see Wall-e, but since he took so stinkin long to git er done, we are going to take him to see Madagascar 2. He is pretty excited. Also, Carson has a new favorite song. Its "Love Lock Down" by Kanye West. Yeah, i guess he saw him perform on the Ellen show a couple weeks ago and started asking for it. Now every time i turn music on he asks for "luv luv down". I guess i will post yet another video or Carson dancing. I really dont know where he learned to shake it like that.
Halli is pretty much the same except fatter and louder. She has been talking a lot more too. She is a cutie.

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday we decided that we were going to follow a sign we saw for a pumpkin patch here in town. Carson was pretty excited to go pick out a pumpkin. When we pulled up, we found out that this pumpkin patch consisted of a large number of pumpkins sitting on crates... in a parking lot... in the middle of town. I was like, "Seriously? This is it?" I guess Kansas has a different definition of a pumpkin patch. So yeah, we were pretty bummed. But, the disappointment all went away when we noticed the large blow-up castle off to the side. Carson could have cared less about the idea of walking through a field to pick out a pumpkin because he was jumping in a huge inflated castle! Can life get better? I don't think so. Anyways, we ended up getting a couple pumpkins anyways, even though it wasn't the experience we were looking for. Sad to say, that was the most exciting thing that happened this weekend. I enjoy just being home with my children. They are so great... even though they can be little stinkers every once and a while. Work has been a little stressful lately because Boeing is on strike and that has affected us greatly. Many people in the company are on shortened work weeks and there is a potential round of lay-offs coming soon. It is stressful every day at work because there are many that are afraid to get laid off. I am blessed to be in a good position to continue working full weeks. Coming home to Tiffani and the kids just makes my stress go away. Ok, this is getting pretty long so i'm going to stop. Oh, check out the legs on Halli!

Halloween Time

This Halloween we decided that carson was old enough to go trick or treating so we got him a costume. An octopus costume. You are probably thinking, "huh, thats kinda weird....an octopus." Thats what i thought at first... but once we got the costume and put it on him, it doesnt seem so weird. Seriously, have you seen a cuter octopus? I dont think so. Anyway, we are excited to take our little man out for trick or treating this year. i think he will have a great time.