Happy Halloween!!

From our house to yours...have a fun and safe halloween!! Try not to eat all your kiddos' candy, though I cannot say the same for my hubby and myself.

My Halloween Birthday Boy!

Yup, you heard me correctly. My son was born on Halloween. (although my due date wasn't until Nov. 16th) I remember that day very clearly. Went into the hospital at 5 am with some hard contractions. Those buggers are awful! Had the glorious epidural a little after that and was relaxin' and waiting. I remember I started pushing at 10am and an hour later he was born. The feeling you get once you see your baby is unforgettable and such a wonderful moment. The rest of the day was a bit of a blur. Funny how you remember everything up to right after having your baby, but afterwards, nada. (at least for me anyways)

And here we are, 7 years later. I swear, it feels like this all happened yesterday...I wonder if I will always feel like that. I hope so! I'm the luckiest mom on earth to have such a wonderful son. He's made me so proud and I'm so excited to see what the future holds for him.

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Wordless Wednesday ~ Her Audience

Madison and her brother's pumpkins. She couldn't get enough of them!

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It's For The Kids

We almost didn't get the chance to have pumpkins this year. Even though you can find them at almost any grochery store, we made the choice to wait until the week before to get them so they'd be in good shape when the time came to show them off. Last year we bought them about 2 weeks before and they were gross by halloween. Our usual place of purchase was all out. Even inside the store! So we headed to good ole' Walmart and found a big supply of them and picked out the best two of the bunch.

Even at my age, though I'm not saying I'm old, I still get pretty excited doing fun things like finding costumes for halloween or picking out the pumpkins and helping to carve them. (ok ok, so my husband does the carving) But I help get the seeds and slimy stuff out. Not so much fun, but as I said, I'm involved.

Next came the task of finding characters or faces to put on them. Usually we'll buy a book that has ready made stencils and use those. But the majority of the pictures are kinda creepy, so we try to stick with the funny faces. This year we couldn't find anything we liked, so we turned to old faithful, the world wide web. I found two really cute/funny pictures and used those. My hubby is really good at looking at a picture once and drawing it perfectly on paper. Or in this case a pumpkin.




I've tried carving a pumpkin once and, to me anyways, it's harder than it looks. So I just left it to the professional. And voila!



My daughter was pretty excited about seeing hers, as was my son. It makes it all worth it.

No Zoo Goes Boo

Our zoo has an annual event called Zoo Goes Boo. The kids can wear their halloween costumes and get candy throughout the place. Plus they get to see the animals, too. We had gone lastyear not even knowing that such a thing was going on. We had just planned on going to the zoo to check out the animals and saw all the kids with their costumes and realized it was something they did! So we planned on going this year, had the date picked out and everything. The weather told us different. It decided to rain, therefore we did not go. Fortunately my kids were none the wiser, so there were no hearts broken. Although I was excited to go, there's always next year!

Here are a few pictures from last year...




Shh, don't tell the kids there's a big spider behind them.






Is this for me?





Cheeeese...
(Hmm, I wonder how much candy he's got in there)

Wordless Wednesday ~ I Missed You!

This is what she does almost everytime her brother comes home from school. I'm just glad I was able to capture it!

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Wordless Wednesday ~ Blue Moon Ice Cream

When my daughter and ice cream collide!

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