Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween! It is so sad that is is over and all the Halloween candy has been eaten. It was really fun for me this year to see how excited Josie was to go trick or treating. We had been praticing for weeks. I was in the hospital last year after just having Charlie so it was fun to be out there with the kids. Josie wanted to have her face painted like a dragon, and since I have NO artistic abilities... this is what her face ended up looking like. Oh well, she loved it! And it was all rubbed off in a short time anyway! Halloween day started out visiting Moni so she could see the kids in their costumes. The night started out visiting Grandma and then Grandpa.

Josie was excited about her pumpkin flash light.

We went trick or treating with Andy, Melissa, Drew, Eliza and Olivia and Josie loved every second of it! She would stand at the door for ever after she had gotten her treat. Maybe she thought if she stood there long enough, they would give her more.

Here are all the kids minus Charlie.

I love Drew and Josie in this picture!

He is always so sweet to her!

Josie stomped right though these leaves after

I am sure they had racked them up nicely for the evening.

She had so much fun doing it.

Olivia and Charlie enjoying the ride around the neighborhood.

Charlie enjoying his sucker while on his ride.

Andy was nice enough to haul the kids all night in the wagon.

Josie loved that part of the night!

When we finally got home, Josie was so excited to

answer the door and give the kids candy.

She would give them HUGE handfuls.

Their eyes were all popping out!

But the best part was when she dumped out

all the candy and we sorted it all.

That was my favorite part as a kid too,

checking out all the goods we had gotten.

What a fun night for all of us!

What a PARTY!

Charlie turned 1 and we had such a fun Halloween/Birthday party.

I can't figure out where the last year of my life went!

It has totally flown by. He is such a fun little guy

and brings so much happiness to our family!

Here is Sarah Palin (Allison) helping serve the

soup along with Paula the pirate.

Here is a whole bunch of people including

Marilyn the Chemist testing the soup.

Cleo the pink fairy, Naomi the witch, Josie the

dragon and Lucy the purple fairy.

Michael the motorcross guy, Derby and Finn Starwars guys.

Some freak with Stan the construction guy.

The teenagers Cooper the beach bum, Heather,

Hannah and Tori the Crosscountry runner.

Charlie the lion and Tommy the giraffe

Katy the witch and Josie the dragon.

Jake the gansta.

Eliza is Supergirl and Josie is still a dragon.

Finn, Charles the hockey guy, Charlie and Josie.

Charles keeps his hockey stuff in the garage and everytime Josie sees it

she says "There is daddy's costume".

Maelle, Whitney and Susie. Their family theme was

the big bad wolf and three little piggies.

Andy and Melissa the cowboys.

Katy the witch, Nick the hippie, Josie and Sofie the "spider" witch.

Eliza as Supergirl and Drew as a Batman guy.

Lauren the cowboy.

We bobbed for apples and the kids loved it! .
Charlie really loved eating his apple.

Thanks Melissa for egging me on to go next.
I act like such an idiot around the kids!
They probably think I am crazy!

Josie thought it was so funny!


Next we played "stick the wart on the witches nose".
This was the biggest hit! All the kids chewed a piece of gum and then
were blindfolded and had to try and get their wart on the witches nose.


Eliza wanted me to take a picture of her supergirl gum.


Poor witchy poo! She got plastered with warts!


Cake and presents are always fun!

Eating the cake is the best part!


Charlie had such a fun night! I was afraid that he would
get too tired and bomb out, but he was great!

Everyone had fun playing with his new toys.



I had to put this one in because Josie looks so cute!


I found Josie and Eliza having a blast in Josie's room!


Happy Birthday sweet boy! We all love you!

We can't wait to see what the next year brings for Charlie!

Witches at Gardner Village

What a beautiful day to go to Gardner Village and see all the witches.

We went with Melissa, Drew, Eliza and Olivia and had a great time.

The witches are all so funny and big. The kids loved it!

Charlie wanted to get out of his stroller so bad.

He is sooooo close to walking and will be so happy when he can finally walk.

He was so happy to climb around on the pumpkins.

I love pumpkin pictures!

Josie looks a little nervous to be sitting so close to a witch.


Drew and Josie scaled this wall to get to the cat.
We kept seeing it around and they would corner it every time.
It bit Josie on the thumb and she thought it was great. Silly girl!

Eliza and Drew were trying to teach Josie how to
swing her hips to do the hula hoop like this witch.
They really know how to swing their hips.
Drew was so funny shaking his hips around!
I love that they had to hold their shirts up to shake their hips.
It was so cute!

Josie really liked the witches, but she LOVED the ducks.She was excited to find some of their feathers.


It was another perfect day to be outside. We really had a great time!


We wanted to get the kids all together for a picture...
I guess we should have done that first thing
instead of the last thing before we left. Oh well.
We know we had a super fun time!


Thanks Melissa for letting us go with you and the kids!

This will definetly be a new tradition for us.