It's November 14th ...

It's November 14th and I still haven't told about the kids' Halloween.

From Halloween

Nathan carving his pumpkin.

From Halloween

Jenna carving her pumpkin. The one she picked out froze and rotted so she carved the extra one we had.


Jenna and Nathan with their masterpieces.


Ms. Payton the Princess ladybug

Nathan and Jenna the rockstars

Jenna and Nathan in their costumes (minus Jenna's wig) and pumpkins

Apparently rock stars don't do chores or smile ... haha. See his tattoo's. This will be the one and only time you will see Nathan with a mohawk while he is under our roof! :)



Wondering what this is? These are the candles aunt Barbara gave us that were ghosts. We lit them and went and lit all the other candles and came back to take a picture of the ghost candles and they were half gone! And then they went all over ... so Barbara, here's our proof that we used the candles you gave us in my "surprise box of knitting stuff". More on that in a later post.


And this is our Halloween dinner. Our traditional dinner on Halloween is McDonalds ... my kids have finally outgrown McDonalds and now are hooked on El Sol de Mexico (especially Nathan, see him scarfing his down?)

Halloween was fun for the most part. We ate dinner and watched some "scary" movies. Ghostbusters 1 and 2 and Goonies and Gremlins. Nathan fell asleep during Ghostbusters and so we changed it to Gremlins. Jenna was jumping around and shrieking and yelling at the TV during that movie so we decided not to watch Goonies. I don't remember Gremlins being that scary (it's not ... it's just my kids don't get to watch scary movies). In fact our TV has been broke for well over a month now and we haven't watched any movies except in our bedroom with everyone piled on our bed.

I wanted to tell of all the things that have happened in the last few weeks, months, DECADES ... not really decades but some in the past weeks and months. So I will put in the photo's with explanations.

First set of photos is with us at the Pumpkin Patch this year.

This is Nathan ... instead of walking around the stack o' pumpkins, he walks through them.

Jenna with her stalk of corn and ear of corn.

Nathan with his EMPTY wheelbarrow ... he had a heck of time when it was empty maneuvering it through the rows of pumpkins.

Here is Nathan again. He FINALLY found his pumpkin. In this picture he was saying, "Dad I got it." It nearly broke him in half, it was so heavy. I think he has a hernia now. (Just kidding)

And of course, Payton. This is the one she picked out. She liked the feel of the pumpkins.

This one is my favorite. She had so much fun with the pumpkins and the kids.

She would get so excited and do a belly laugh. We were cracking up.

She just loved the feel of them. Some were soft and smooth and others were rough and bumpy.

Jenna, Payton and Nathan poising on a pumpkin that looked like a chair but you can't see it in this picture. The sun was in their eyes and Payton was sick of having her picture taken I think. She has a nonamused look on her face. Ha-ha.

Anyway, that was a few weeks before Halloween. Most of the pumpkins were frozen because we had a really bad snow and frost but we did manage to get 3 pumpkins picked and brought home.