Trick or Treat

I am trying to catch up since I didn't post a lot in October. The next few posts are about what we've been up too... Man we had a busy week before Halloween. We went to a costume party the week before Halloween and had a great time. I made witches broomsticks, candy corn pizza, and bone breadsticks for that party. We made some great Halloween lanterns a few days before Halloween and have been enjoying lighting them each night. Then the day before Halloween we went to the Trunk or Treat at church. The kids invited some friends and they had a blast! We didn't go trick or treating on Halloween so we stayed home and had a spooky dinner and watched Harry Potter. I think we had more fun than when we went trick or treating!
Little Miss Lady Bug at the Halloween party

Doesn't he make a great Harry Potter!


Miss Hermione Granger

Watch out!

Hermione as a cheesehead?!

If only she were really that innocent!

Graydon was a beach bum

Fun Halloween food

Our Halloween lanterns. Megan did the vampire and Tyler did the large ghost.

Time to Trunk or Treat!

I love the pouty ladybug!

This is how Caitlyn looked most of the night. She didn't seem to mind :)

Our spooky Halloween dinner.

Worms in dirt anyone?

Caitlyn turns 1

Boy has this year flown by! I can't believe our little Caitlyn is 1! It took Graydon and I a long time to decide if we were going to have more kids and I am soooo glad we did! Miss Caitlyn is such a fun baby. Tyler and Megan adore her and she brings a smile to everyone's face. She got a lot of fun toys for her birthday and I am happy to say she loves them and can be engrossed for a long time while playing with them. Hallelujah! She is getting closer to walking and is always moving around (it is really hard to get a good picture of her, she is always moving!) and I can tell she wants to be with the big kids when they are outside playing. She will sit at the front window and yell at them and it sounds like she is trying to get their attention ;) We have been trying to teach her how to give "love". When we are holding her we say, "Can I have love?" and, if she feels like it, she will put her head on our chest so we can hug her. She is not a cuddly baby, if she cuddled with you she would miss things that were going on around her. :) Happy Birthday Miss Caitlyn, we love you!!!

Tyler took this picture. Not to bad for a kid!

I'm trying to get pictures at different angles. Now if I could just get a camera with a decent flash!

She likes the dinosaur behind her and can play with that for quite awhile.

Tyler and Megan were more excited about everything than she was, and they had already seen all of the presents!

Harvest Festival

We went to a Harvest Festival at a local nursery a couple of weeks ago and had a great time. There was a hay ride, animals, games, pumpkins, and it was all free!! The kids had a great time. I love all the family friendly things you can do in Boise and so many of them are free. What a great fall activity!

Megan coloring her pumpkin

The seed spitting game

Going fishing...

Hay ride with daddy

Megan was fascinated with the animals.

After all of the fun.

Practicing photography part 2

Here is the picture of Megan I took about a month and a half ago. This one is my favorite! Look at my sweet girl who is growing up sooo fast! We took a lot of great photos on this day and I will post them later but I love this one and wanted to share. Tyler's and Caitlyn's pictures to follow...

The Blur

I was trying to take pictures of Caitlyn the other day and I could not get her to sit still long enough to get her picture. I guess she is finally at that age where I am going to have to bring in reinforcements to entertain her while I take her picture. I thought these were cute anyway...

The Queen

Megan was cold the other day and so she wrapped herself in a blanket. Then she got the idea to make a robe out of blankets, like a queen. What you are looking at is two blankets a robe and a sheet. I can't believe she wasn't burning up. Silly girl...

First day of school

Okay still catching up...the kids have been in school for about a month. Wow time flies! Megan was really excited to go back to school and Tyler was not(he is already at that age!). They both were moving up with the same class so they didn't really have any nerves. They are still in the Classical education program and loving it. I tried not to take pictures in front of their friends but I couldn't help it. They still humor me...

My 4th grader

My 2nd grader

Look at those cheeseball smiles ;)

Tyler just found out that his best friend Louis skipped a grade and they are in the same class, can you tell how happy he is!