How haunted is your house?

Grandma Sheri andGrandpa Blaine sent a package in the mail with some fun Halloween stuff. The kids had lots o fun decorating these haunted houses.

Grandma's Halloween Party

Grandma Callahan had a Halloween party for all of the grandkids.

Garrett and Embrie helped grandma set up decorations for the party.

there was a spooky Halloween lunch with lots of creepy eats, like eye-ball soup!

They all made a creepy craft

they played WITCH (bingo)

ate more eye balls

decorated cookies and ate those too!

watched a Halloween show and decorated some treat bags that grandma of course filled up with goodies and prizes!

Needless to say .... they had a blast!

Little Witches Day Out

Man we must like our Halloween around here right???

Little Witches Day out

Getting nails painted, yay!

1st feild trip

Embrie had a school feild trip, her 1st one. It was to another pumpkin patch.

They each got to pick a pumpkin to decorate the next school day.

Embrie with her neighborhood friends who are also her classmates, Bailey and Katy. And since Garrett was off-track he came too.

Maren seems to think she could get this old tracto running with a little tinkering.

Harvesting Pumpkins

dirty and lovin' it! (plus a little walking action)

happiest dirty baby ever!

I just stuck her in the tub clothes and all.

 

I thought t would take her a lot longer to get to these points but she is starting to cruise right along!

Sunflower

We planted a sunflower this year (thanks for the seed sets papa & gg).

The kids had a blast pulling the seeds out. I guess it one of those things like popping bubble wrap or peeling sunburned skin or something.

now what do we do with them? Brad isn't sure he trusts them enough to eat them, the kids want to plant more next year, or we can put them out as bird seed. hmmm

my first decoupage

I swear that I took 'before' pictures of this chair but I can't find them.

anyway this was a plain brown wooden chair that I had taken off the hands of one of my friends that was moving. They'd used it as a step stool while they painted. It used to belong to a set with another chair and a table.

When I took it I was thinking I could turn it into something cool. (like I need another project right?)

This is what it ended up looking like when I finished. I didn't plan to decoupage it just sort of came to me. It may not be everyone's style for sure. But I was happy with it. What do you think?

So you think you can run?

In September Garrett's school held a fundraiser. The kids were going to do a fun run and ask their family and friends to sponsor them to run for 15 min around a track.

Garrett was very excited. The week of the run the school got all pumped up. As kids turned in their envelopes with their pledge money the teachers wore mustaches, polk-a-dots, and the principle even wore a tutu, blue fairy wings and rollerblades.

Garrett was excited when his teacher handed out mustaches to all the kids. I think he wore it for 3 days straight as long as he could get away with it.

families could run with their students so Embrie was excited too, she and Garrett got all warmed up for the race. 

I was really proud of Garrett. He took off running and he ran the whole time! That is a long time for little legs, but oh how I know he's got the energy for it, he proves that daily.

Garrett shot ahead, but Embrie and I stuck together. She did pretty good too! Only stopping a few times and on those times were pretty short breaks. She wanted to keep going. She looks up to Garrett so much.

as a little side story I found Garrett and Embrie in their room before the race and they were digging through Embrie's piggy bank. I asked what they were doing and Garrett said he was getting money for the race. (He'd been telling me that the school assembly said they could ask brothers and sisters to donate.) Our conversation when like this:

me: No don't take money out of her piggy bank. Don't ask Embrie to donate she doen't have any money.  

Garrett: oh. ok. .... Well I can give her some out of my bank and then she can donate it.

me: no don't do that either. -then I paused to think for a minute, they were both so excited.-  ah, ok Embrie do you want to donate money to Garrett's school?

Embrie: yes

me: ok you can give Garrett 50 cents.

and that is how we ended up with 50 cents in the envelope. they were pretty cute.

Thanks so much to Grandma's and Grandpa's that donated money to Garrett's school. And he didn't let you down he ran and did hs best! They said it was a huge success!