Crazy hair

 

 

The girls with crazy hair for school one day. They were pretty excited to have colored hair. Jackson missed out because he stayed home sick that day. He was kind of annoyed :)

Halloween

This is how they all went Trick or Treating. Caleb was willing to wear a costume this time..... Jackson is a skeleton. It's funny that I never really know what they are going to be dressed as until it's time. Not much planning ahead happens with this crew. I wonder if that will change as they get older? I blame it on having A LOT of costumes around the house to choose from.....
Caleb was pretty funny when we went trick or treating. He got candy at the first house and he would have been perfectly happy if we stopped right then and let him eat that one piece of candy. We stayed out a little longer and he was pretty into it once he realized every house was going to put candy in his bucket! Jackson was ready to run from house to house as fast as he could. Maggie wanted to be moving pretty fast too. Matt went ahead with the bigger ones while I walked with the littler two. Hailey was torn between wanting to go fast and staying with me :)

Fire station

 

The local fire station had an open house around Halloween. This was our 2nd year to go. The kids love to climb in and out of all the vehicles and take a ride on the fire truck. Caleb wasn't too sure about a fully outfitted fireman but where his siblings go he will follow :) He was a crazy man the rest of the time. He was ALL over the place. We happened to know one of the guys there and he spent some time trying to recruit Matt since it is an all volunteer station.....

Sadly, I have very few pics to add to this post. I wish I would have taken more but all hands were busy..... we had friends over for dinner and pumpkin carving last night despite the hurricane storm warning..... They have 6 kids so there was quite a lot to do! They live in our same neighborhood so we didn't have to worry about them traveling far. Although, the wind and rain was crazy as they headed out. We never lost power - I am grateful for that. We had taco soup that our friends brought over - very good stuff :) Carved lots of pumpkins (Matt helped out with the Dremel!) We also had some dry ice so we could make a fun potion as a drink. We just dropped some in a punch bowl of kool aid. The kids thought I was magic :) It really was pretty cool. If you want to try it, grocery stores often have it, you just have to ask for it. It's only a couple of dollars per pound. Get 1 lb for your drink and 1 lb for experiments!! Get it as close to using it as possible it really doesn't last long - even in the freezer. We had 4 lbs - we probably used 1 lb for drinks and the rest went in the freezer. By lunchtime the next day there was only 1/2 - 1 lb left to play with. I will post about that soon. After pumpkin carving and pumpkin seed roasting, I made some spiderweb snacks. Pretzel sticks with melted chocolate drizzled on them like spiderwebs. Very easy and turned out very cute. We added flameless candles to all the pumpkins and turned off the lights so the kids could admire them. So fun to see them amazed! Halloween is such a fun time of the year.

Halloween 1

This is round 1 of Halloween costumes. I think it was for Jackson's cub scout pack meeting. The kids were still really into the face paint so they were all done up. Caleb didn't really want to wear costumes out of the house. He just likes to play dress up at home :) He wore the cape for the pics but only wore the mask for the rest of night. It's fun to see the kids dressed up and so excited for Halloween.

Birthday!

 

Matt's birthday was towards the end of October. The kids always love a good birthday! :) He chose a buffet for his birthday dinner so we were all to full for cake and ice cream when we got home. We decided to have it for breakfast the next morning.... at least it was carrot cake. I was proud of myself for making it instead of buying it this year. It had pineapple and of course, shredded carrots. It was very good. Matt doesn't mind getting older at all. He just seems to enjoy the time as it goes by. Caleb was excited about the candles and said "do it again, Dad" after Matt blew them out.
I am forever grateful that I have Matt as a husband. Together we shall conquer all :) meaning - we will raise happy, healthy, contributing adults. I love that I can still learn new things about him even after 11 years of marriage!!