Our church Halloween Trunk or treat party

The kids had a lot of fun at the church Halloween party. Now we just have the school party Friday night and then Halloween on Saturday. Oh we also have a costume parade Friday morning, so I am thinking we may just stay home Saturday night and have the kids help hand out the candy. This kind of excitement is a lot for the kids to take and still be happy.

Hats and other Fall randoms

One thing my kids seem to love is putting things on their heads, they can make hats out of just about anything. Trina brought back Emma this ribbon skirt from New York, which she enjoyed for several days and then somehow it became bunched together and a new hair accesorie, so here is all the kids with that on.

Then Emma made a pair of tights into a hat, she looked like some weird kind of elf.

Then later I found her with one of Bryce's shoes on.

This was her just the week before, so all of this got me thinking that maybe I need to buy the poor girl some cute hats.

Of course Bryce wanted in on the fun and decided his jeans would work out good too.

So one day when Bryce was in school the twins and I joined some friends at the pumpkin patch. This probably will be the first of many trips there or so it usually ends up that way. We had a great time except poor Emma getting stung by a yellow jacket. Luckily I killed it before it got her twice, but it made her sad. Here are a few pictures of the day.

Better late than never

So today was the twins first official haircuts. They both have had some previous experience with a haircut, but not an official in the salon cut. We were worried about how Gavin would do the most because he has been so scared of any effort to make his hair look good. Well, except the time Bryce cut his hair, apparently that didn't bother him, but any effort since has been met with lots of crying. I also have banned Alan from any more buzz cuts for Gavin, so it was time to find another option. When we saw a kids salon in town had a Thomas the train chair (Gavin's new favorite thing) we knew we had a match. I got a little worried when he was acting sad before we even started so the women suggested I hold him, he was really trying to get down when it dawned on me he might want to get in the Thomas chair after all, he did and was pretty happy from there on out.

Emma on the other hand didn't seem phased at all to get her hair done and happily climbed up for her turn. Her last haircut was when Bryce gave her a mullet over a year ago and then Shauna fixed it as best she could, but it was definately time. The women trimmed up the back and added a few layers and ended her cut by sprinking fairy dust, aka glitter in her hair. You can imagine that Emma was pretty excited to get the attention.

Checking it out

Fairy dust

Also this week Emma has started a new trend, she loves to get diaper covers from her dresses out and wear them as accesories, usually as hats and bracelets. Emma seriously wore two around for hours one day and even napped with them. Then she takes my old hair scrunchies and uses them for bracelets or garters, its pretty funny. Someday when that is in style we will have to remember Emma thought of it all first.

Here she is one day after accesorizing her jammies

Bryce insisterd I take this picture.

Randoms

LIfe has been busy, we moved two weeks ago so I haven't done much picture taking. These are just a few random shots.

One night Bryce was playing with the sign the school put in our yard and a full slip and made himself into a robot. I actually thought he did a good job getting into this.
Then a week later he came up to me and told me he knew he was a robot, I asked him why and he told me because he does naughty things so he knows someone must be controlling him. I asked him if Bryce was controlling him to which he replied no, somone else is, so if that someone is out there reading I would love a little more listening and a lot less destruction. =)



One night when I was heading downstairs I found the twins watching tv like this, I just thought they were so cute... well except when I have to pick up the cusions off the floor 6 times a day.

The Holts came over last night and Shauna made some great carmel brownies, Gavin could not get enough chocolate, here he is asking for Mo- which translated is more.

Here is Raegan

Emma liked the brownies but didn't seem too sure about the picture

Shauna, Jerry and Raegan

These are the twins tonight, can you tell that they like tv?

Bryce got ahold of the camera today and here are a few of my favorite shots

-in the mirror

Gavin giving Bryce the look and Emma under the pillow

Willow looking a little annoyed

First day of kindergarten

It is amazing how we go from this


to this in 5 short years



Bryce was a little nervous to start school but still did really well this morning. I am sure he is going to love it in no time.

Tracing his name

Story time

The school was so cute and brought this sign for Bryce this morning. Bad us, we went out the garage and never saw it. I will get a picture of Bryce with it when he gets home, in the meantime Emma had fun hiding behind it and playing peekaboo

Ok here are Bryce and Gavin having fun with the sign after school. Now if I could get Bryce to actually tell me what they did at school we would be good.

Sunday morning

Here are just a few pictures I took of the kids before church on Sunday. It was Emma's first time with a pony tail, and she was excited. I need to get better about lighting, they all came our really dark and then look funny when I had to lighten them all. The kids were not in the most cooperative mood either so this is as good as it got... not that great. I figure we need to document moments even if no one else is interested.
Someday I would love to take some photograpy classes so I can do better and also learn how to do photoshop so I can edit the ones that didnt come out so great to look better.

Fun at Fairyland

I love to take my kids to Fairyland, it was somewhere I loved going to as a kid so its still a place that makes me happy. The kids love it so much we got a season pass for this year so I know we will have lots of fun exploring it, in fact we found a new tunnel in the back that we had not seen before after Bryce carefully studied that map one night. He was so proud of himself to find a secret place we had not been before.





This is the twins first experience with cotton candy, at firs they were not too sure but quickly warmed up to the taste.