Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Trick or Treat!

Trick or treating produced a lot of candy. And I sadly have eaten almost none of it. Which could also be good though. I had a tooth pulled Thursday and the dentist had a hard time with it, so my jaw is still pretty sore.

We took the girls downtown to trick or treat since the businesses usually all hand out stuff. There were very few places that did this year, so it was kinda dull. We went and stopped at a few particular people's houses and then came back to our neighborhood.

We made a loop by our house and learned that a lot of people set a bucket of candy out and just expect kids to help themselves. We also learned that we should have done that, because by the time we got home we ended up only getting about 15 kids. :(

It was 70 for a high on Halloween! We really expected more kids to be out all night due to the nice weather. Oh well. Hopefully Mike will take most of the candy to work and I won't have to worry about eating it! :)

Even though Kylie had been a lady bug before, and Sidney was one last year, she still wanted to be a lady bug for Halloween. So she was. Kylie also requested that Sidney be a bee. We thought it world be cute and Sidney had no idea what I was really asking her about, so we went with it and had a little bug theme this year.

Sidney was afraid at the first place and wouldn't let go of my leg, but soon realized that it is fun and you get candy. At each house the girls knocked at, they knocked so quietly, but Sidney would also yell out "Knock knock!", so I think that helped people know they were there. :)


All dressed for school
 
Eating our traditional 
homemade pizza for supper

Our little buggies
 
Completely stuck to my leg after the first place, not wanting to trick or treat
:)

It's ok though, as long as daddy holds her hand. :)

Mike with his two lovely bugs
 
Out trick or treating



Exhausted little bee back home.


Pumpkin Carving

Here are some photos from our pumpkin carving/decorating activities.....
Have video from this and the pumpkin patch that I will hopefully get uploaded this week and also posted for your viewing pleasure. :)

She loved pushing the parts into place!

And she loved that we picked up a sticker set for the pumpkins!

Trying out the new drill powered gut remover.

Loved her pumpkin!

And so did she!

Scooping out guts! - She did not enjoy it.

She didn't really enjoy it either though...

Sidney did get excited if she got a seed or two on her scooper though!

But she quickly lost interest and just wanted to watch Casper with
her pumpkin by her side.... :)

tracing on her pattern

Concentrating very hard to cut it out.....and not cut herself or dad!

Pulling out her eye piece

Working on my pumpkin

Three of the four carved pumpkins....it goes:
Kylie - Jess - Mike
 
Front Step Layout:
 


 
 
 
 
 AND - a random photo of Kylie's and my colorfully painted spider webs in an effort to spruce up our Halloween decorations.......idea completely stolen off Pintrest.

Pumpkin Patch

Two weekends ago we had made plans to go to the local pumpkin patch. Sadly, our Saturday plan was cancelled when Mike got called to a fire on Friday. :(
He was able to get home mid-day Sunday so we made a late trip out there Sunday evening. It was horribly windy, but the girls still had a blast.
We hit up the corn maze, but didn't even attempt the whole thing. We got out of it pretty quick. This year the place also added a hay-bale maze, a corn pit and a hay-bale slide.

Here area bunch of pictures from our fun!

Leading the way!

Enjoying a ride!

Proof that mom was there too!

Running through

Kylie's turn to ride

Checking the map. How do we get out!!?

"No pictures mom!"

Corn Pit

Kylie was making a corn angel

So Sidney had to too


She loved that corn pit!
 
The big slide. You had to "mountain climb" up the hay
bales in the back, pulling yourself up with a rope.
 

And Kylie loved the slide!


Some of our chicken friends who were hanging out by the corn pit

Headed off to get pick out our pumpkins

Sidney working hard to pull the wagon

The field was pretty picked over by the time of the month we got out to the patch

cuties!

She loved picking out pumpkins

working hard to bring our loot back to checkout

Unsure of her sister's driving skills. :)


The wonderful sky we were treated to that night.