Halloween Dinner

so I thought it would be super fun to have a themed dinner for Halloween. every year we do trunk or treat but every year there is some crazy insane issue with the dinner they provide. one year it was that they decided to not use tables. another year they did hot dogs with no ketchup, mustard, or anything else. it was way more fun to have dinner at home with all kinds of themed dinner food.

blood potion to drink

Spiders eggs

Candy corn fruit cups

and Mummy Dogs

Playgroup Halloween fun and boo bash

I recently joined a new play group. I used to run one but in all honesty I got tired of the backlash and the nasty comments I was getting so i quit providing activities right after Caleb was born. I had been looking to join someone elses group. I met this group one day at a park when i was on bed rest right before Caleb was born. I didn't join right away because i knew i would need time to cope with having two children instead of one. We love this group. its super diverse (so im not stuck in the Mormon bubble and I have the opportunity to meet new people with different circumstances then mine) and I love it. the kids are all super fun and most of the women are consistently active.

 Playgroups boo bash

FHE Pumpkin Carving with friends

We were running late this year carving the adult pumpkins and so when a good friend of ours invited us over for an FHE to carve pumpkins we packed the kids in the car and went to have a little pumpkin carvin fun. 

Madison really surprised me this year she was totally into watching daddy carve the pumpkin. I have tried year after year to get her to touch the pumpkin "guts" and she finally did it this year and was comfortable with it. After she was done playing with the insides she promptly asked me to clean up the "mess"

I carved the minion pumpkin and it was tough but fun

 

Madison was convinced she carved the pumpkin minion and was so willing to try to carry the pumpkin...silly girl! 

Caleb slept through the whole thing in a pack n play in another room

Pumpkin Patch

I know this is super lame but we took the kids to a pumpkin patch so i could take super cute pictures and not have to buy a zillion pumpkins and hay bails. we were suppose to go to cal poly's pumpkin patch but the kiddies got super sick so we stayed home. this pumpkin patch was my desperate attempt to get some cute pictures and i have to say i got some awesome pictures. my 2 almost 3 year old now understands what a jumper is and this pumpkin patch had like 15 different ones. i did eventually give in and let her go play in 1 jumper. the "tickets" you had to purchase were 5 dollars each and they could choose one jumper and jump in it for 5 minutes. it was such a rip off but it sure did make her just a little bit happier and her day just a little bit brighter.