And the After...

This is what our pumpkins looked like after the carving party. We gave a few away and I gained some gourds from my mom and dad. I still have one that is hollowed out that I did not finish. Hopefully it will get done today, or tomorrow.

Pumpkin Carving Party!

When I was younger my mom and her cousins would get all us kids together to carve pumpkins for Halloween. I have great memories of that tradition and wanting to keep my inner child alive I have started it again for my kids. This is the second annual Pumpkin Carving Party that I have set up at my moms house. We had a lot of fun this year with the little ones being bigger. I have a cousin who's baby is a month younger than mine and all the kids had fun playing together.

Here are the cute kids.

Maycee didn't really want to put her hands in the pumpkin. She would have just been happy to carry them around and she keep trying to hug them. She would pick up just a seed and that was okay for her too.

Kimberlen did pretty good at getting all the "guts" out but needed some assistance still and Grandma ended up carving out her flying witch, Twice. Thanks, mom.

Here is the end result. We had all kinds of of pumpkin faces when we were through.

Trying to get a good picture of the girls together was not going to happen. I think there were too many things going on to pay attention to the task at hand.

Thanks for the fun day everyone and for being the hostess Mom.

Harvest

So after the snow fell and then melted we decided it would be a good idea to harvest the rest of our garden. We still had a bunch of tomatoes and peppers and a few cucumbers and zucchini. These are the pumpkins that we grew. I thought I should take a picture of them before we cut them into jack 'o lanterns. I will post after the carving.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

I took the girls in for pictures in there costumes and this is what we came up with.....

Party!, Party!

My girlfriends and I had our annual Halloween party with the kids. Everyone was dressed up so cute! The little girl in the back with the slip was at one point dressed as Snow White.

Maycee didn't want to sit too long for her picture.
The kids got to decorate cookies provided by my mom. They love to do this and thanks to the weather we were able to keep the mess outside. It was great.
The "HIT" of the party was by far the Pinata. Thanks Sara! All the kids took turns from youngest to oldest and we stood around and laughed at them all.

Thanks for the use of your home Shannon it turned out great!

Gardner Village

I took the girls and a friend and my girlfriend to see the witches at Gardner Village. It was Wee Witches Weekend and there were a few activities for the kids to do. First we stooped to have their faces painted.

Here they are sitting with one of the many witches that were found around the village. Everyone that worked there was dressed as a witch. And then they have all these statues of witches. The little headless horseman that is sitting next to Maycee is the little neighbor girl that lives down the street. She had a great costume and everyone that walked by made a comment and several took her picture.
I couldn't resist taking a picture of Maycee in front of the pumpkins. They looked like they were set up for the sake of a picture opportunity.
All the kids were able to get in a line and walk up on the stage with there costumes for a parade.
Lastly we took a wagon ride around the pond they have as the witch told a story about the witches brew that they make in the pond. Maycee watched her talk and listened about half way and then decided that she was scarred of the witch and wouldn't look her way, or lift her head off my shoulder. We had quite the fun night.

This is how we Vacuum!

I made the mistake of showing Maycee how to sit on the Vacuum and let me push her. I remember doing this with Kimberlen and how much fun she thought it was. I made a big mistake. Now this is the only way I have been able to vacuum the last few weeks and because I feel I have to vacuum a few times a week it is making it a little harder to get my house work done. But, I guess at least we are having fun. I don't think Maycee was too thrilled to have Kimberlen take her pictures but she was laughing and grinning the whole rest of the time.

Dentist

At Kimberlen's last appointment they talked me into having Maycee seen the next time we were in, so here we are. Our fun visit to the Dentist.

Maycee thinks that the tooth brush is pretty cool. They let her pick it out by herself and she chose Dora. Kimberlen chose one of the Princess'.
Getting her teeth flossed. Listening to the show "Cars".
Eric and Maycee checking out all the cute things they have used to decorate the office. The black square on the celling is the t.v., which are above all the chairs. It makes it fun.
Kimberlen just waiting. I wanted to show off the office. It is done up like the "Little Rascals" movie. In the waiting area they actually have a club house with long shag green carpet and a fenced in area and the whole nine yards. It is too cute.
Not a good idea to take a 16 month old to the dentist. She did not want them to brush her teeth and that didn't stop the dentist. He brushed until he got the fluoride on all her teeth.

Poor girl, she will never want to go back. Hopefully in time she forgets.

Retreat II

So I was lucky enough to get to go to Park City and stay at the Silver Barron Lodge in Deer Valley with the ladies from work. Last year we stayed one night and this year we decided we definitely needed two. The first night we just hung out, ate way too much and played domino's (thanks Jodi). The second day I made breakfast for all with help from Barb and went shopping, had some yummy Mexican food then went to a play called the Pageant. It was hilarious! It was men dressed as women competing in a beauty pageant, lets just say we laughed our butts off the whole time. On our way home on Sunday we stopped at the Park Silly Sunday, and did some more shopping. I was able to find a few tops for this growing belly I have. Thanks Terri for such a fun weekend again.

I do have to say thanks to Eric for putting up with me and taking care of the girls while I was gone. It really meant a lot.

This is the whole group.
Barb with her money, our work gave us each $100 to spend. Way cool.
Barb and Tahna throwing back the drinks!
Courtney and I being silly.
The intense game of domino's. Which I have to add lasted till 1:30 in the morning, We had to keep stopping and having breaks and then some of them got in the hot tub.