Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Halloween 2012

We had our own little Halloween party at home this year. There was one at church and the kids really wanted to go, but with Daddy being gone for school, and there being a large chance of rain (and it had rained all day pretty much) and mommy not having good night vision when driving, and Nathaniel has been sick, well, we stayed home. We trick-or-treated at Grandma, Grandpa and Great Grandma's house in Etna after school, and then went to Great Grandma's in Fort Jones and then handed out candy at home. We had a fun dinner, watched a couple of Halloween cartoons and went to bed too late - it will fun getting to the bus on time in the morning ;)
Smile? whatever...

The best we could get out of her...

Cute!!!

Yes, growing up is even evidenced in the choice of how to carve the pumpkin....craziness...

Cute smiles on both of them!


The one who did almost all the "gutting" of the pumpkins...yay dad!!

Cleaning it out...he did most of his own carving this year!

The little details...





Carving pumpkins



Halloween dinner - boo burgers, witch warts (Grace's sliced hot dog), mummy fingers (fries), giant's teeth (apple slices), dried flies (raisins) and foaming wizard potion (rainbow sherbert with orange fanta poured over it)....they boys were impressed - even more so when I told them it was all my own ideas, nothing from Pinterest!


Nathaniel's class party


Ninja's last Halloween parade...

Anakin Skywalker

Butterfly (like last year) she was supposed to be Snow White, but she informed me she's a butterfly...several times...can't aruge with that!
 


Now you can see the foaming wizard potion - and Grace got over some of her grumpies (napping from 4 to 6 isn't helpful)

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Grace's birthday

Since we were having a yard sale on Grace's actual birthday, we had her dinner and cake, etc. on Sunday - a couple of days later. This was the first time we'd had anyone over to dinner in our new house. I fixed crock pot ranch pork chops (thank you, pinterest) which is one of the few ways Grace will eat meat. And she wanted a princess castle cake...it turned out so-so. Besides her big brothers and mommy & daddy, she had 2 great grandmas, 1 grandma and 1 grandpa there. She got lots of pretty clothes, some toys and books and had a great time. Hard to believe she's 3 already!!



Getting some help from big brother

With Great Grandma Donna

with Grandma Lorrayne

Grandpa Bruce

Big Brother Joshua

Big brother Nathaniel


Daddy kissing his birthday girl


With Great Grandma Darlene

The Three Amigos


the princess castle cake (purple of course!)


The cake - pink and purple were the requests so it's purple on the outside and pink (strawberry) on the inside. Not as pretty and fancy as I'd have liked to have done, but with yardsale, etc, I was just glad to get it done :)

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Coming soon...Grace turns 3!

Grace turned three a couple of weeks ago. Her birthday was the first day of our Yard Sale...so we saved her birthday dinner, cake & ice cream with grandparents until a couple of days later. But here are a couple of pictures of her on her big day...more to come later.
At the yard sale

Recognize this bear, JoAnn? Joshua rediscovered the Winnie the Pooh he'd had as a baby, and gave it to Grace as part of her birthday because she loooooves Pooh Bear!

She so has the perfect facial expressions of awe and excitement for each package!