A Halloweeny Weekend

This weekend we had a ton of fun doing Halloweeny things!

We started the weekend off by going to Claire's Family Fun Night at her school.  The kids had a blast.  Claire says that she is embarrassed to dance in front of everyone but Oliver was LOVING it!  He couldn't get enough of shakin' it on the dance floor.

Claire was thrilled to death to see Jessie there!  She felt very important to hang out with a big fifth grader.

Claire loved getting her face painted.

 

Claire got a ghost.

 And Oliver loved it too!!  He got a black cat.

Then we headed outside to have some popcorn and see the firetrucks.

Oliver was in his glory when they let him go up into the truck to take a picture!

Then Claire ran into her friend Jake and then headed to the Library to make a craft.  Claire and Jake are messengers together and this is a HUGE deal to Claire so it was nice to put a face with the name.

Claire was in heaven making her Halloween bookmark.

Oliver just liked using the markers.

Claire was pretty pumped when Jessie came back around because she wanted to take a picture with Claire in the Halloween backdrop.

Then Claire finally found her new BFF Halie in the gym at the end of the night.  This is Claire's new best friend at school and I was so happy to finally meet the girl that Claire talks about all the time.

We spent Saturday putting together Claire's Halloween treat bags for dancing.  Claire loves making treat bags for her friends and I love the fact that she pretty much can put them together by herself.  We had to skip our annual OP Halloween Parade due to the weather.  It was freezing and pouring rain. I was pretty bummed we had to miss it for the first time in 3 years but it was just too wet!  So today after I had a great time with my girlfriends celebrating Colleen's soon to be baby boy, we went to Nana and Papa's to frost Halloween cookies and carve pumpkins.  Here is Claire frosting her cookie.

She loves doing this and is getting very creative.

Oliver loved doing it too.

He wasn't so much into making pretty cookies and then saving them.  He would just frost them for a second and then eat them.

While the kids were busy frosting cookies, Mark got to work gutting our pumpkins.

And Oliver continued to eat cookies.

When Claire finished her cookies, she was all about getting to work on her pumpkin.

Then Nana was left to frost the rest of the cookies.

They came out really cute and delicious!

Oliver LOVED gutting his pumpkin!

He worked on his for a while.

Then he helped me gut mine out too.

While we were working we had our Halloween music on and Claire and Daddy couldn't help but dance.

And sing.

And wrapping it up with a smooch.

Here are our final pumpkins.  The don't look too special now but once they were lit up and in the window...

They looked SPOOKTACULAR!!!

I had to add these in too.  The other day Claire got her hair cut and Marilyn braided her hair for her.  It looked super cute and Claire LOVED it!  She asked me "Can I sleep on my face?!" because she so worried it would get messed up!  But luckily it made it through the night and she got to show everyone at school the next day!  She asked me to take pictures so that she could always remember it.

So here is the front view.  Her head looked sooo tiny without all that hair around!

Side view.

Other side.

And the back.  

I loved it but I missed her curls.  I am definitely going to have to learn how to braid now!

Apple Picking...Kinda

Last week we spent a beautiful day apple picking!  Well....not really apple picking because there were no apples on the trees due to the weather last year.  Every year we go apple picking (click HERE and HERE to see our past apple picking trips) and even though we didn't actually pick the apples we had a great a day just hanging out at the farm and choosing our apples from bins.  We just enjoyed being together!

The weather was gorgeous and we were the only ones at the farm.  It was  such a nice and relaxing day.  The kids had a blast playing and seeing everything!  The loved the cornstalk tepee!

They thought it was so cool.  Oliver kept saying "It like a house!"

They loved seeing all the animals.

They had a blast sitting and talking to the turkey!  The turkey kept gobbling when the kids would talk to him, it was hilarious!

As you can see, Mark got Oliver dressed that day.  They have the EXACT same outfit on just different colors.  My boys, I just love them!

Even though there were no apples on the trees we had fun walking and looking around.

Then it was time to pick apples!  The kids still had a blast picking out different kinds of apples from each bin.

Then of course, we had to taste them.  How cute are Oliver's chubby little hands?!

Oliver was in heaven eating his apple!

And Claire loved it too!

After a nice day at the farm, it was time to pack up our goods and head home.

After the farm we had a nice dinner at our favorite family restaurant,  Applebees.  The weather was so beautiful that when got home we played outside until bedtime.

Oliver was thrilled to ride his Thomas bike!

Then Claire wanted to climb her favorite tree.

She is starting to get really good at it!

Then Miss Amy stopped over and we all raked some leaves.

Claire loved raking them but Oliver decided he would much rather sit in the leaves and play instead.

So we had fun burying him in the leaves.

Then it was Claire's turn.

They loved when we threw the leaves up in the air.  Actually, I should say they loved when Miss Amy threw the leaves in the air.  They didn't think I did that great of a job.

My babies.

Me and my babies.

The next day we had fun making applesauce, apple pie, and pumpkin pie with all of our goods from the farm.

Even though there were no apples to pick, we had a wonderful day!!  The weather was amazing and we loved our family day!