Western Day

Cooper's PK had a Western Day recently and he had SO much fun going to it! I volunteered for part of the day so my mom came up to watch Jackson for me. I of course had to dress them matching! :)
My two little cowboys!

I only made it to the petting zoo and then the craft I helped with, but they had a bunch of activities there. I wish I had been able to see it all!

The craft I helped with was making cowboy vests. A child Cooper talks about alot is sitting next to him on his R.

Here's Jackson sitting at the table like a PKer and making the vest! Pretty soon he'll be here for PK! Makes me sad just thinking about it.

Here's cowboy Cooper.

Both of the boys. Yeehaw!

L & T's Annual Halloween Party!

First off I had to post a picture of the food. Doesn't it all look cute? It was tasty too!
Here are Ben and Cooper, the two Peter Pans. Right when we walked in Cooper saw Ben's costume (which Laura made by the way) and saw that his shirt was jagged and he asked me over and over until I went and got scissors and cut his shirt to be jagged like Bens. Cooper told me "we did it wrong mom!" Isn't that hilarious?

The characters from Peter Pan! Tom-Smee, Laura- Tiger Lily, Ryan-Captain Hook, Mom and Dad-Mr. and Mrs. Darling, Me-Tinkerbell, Jackson-alligator, Elizabeth-Wendy (laura made her costume as well), Ben and Cooper-Peter Pan.

Dana and me with Elizabeth, Jackson and Ashlynn (Dana's daughter)

Laura and Tom had all kinds of fun games planned for us all. Here are most of the kids getting ready to play the games.

First up was the pinata!

I love Cooper's expression here!

Then she did this fun popping balloon game where there was a candy in each balloon.

After that the kids went out to play and the adults started the fun. She set up Minute to Win It and we all split up into teams and played some really fun games!

First game-unroll the toilet paper rolls first! (which I won by the way, I know I know, don't be jealous.)

Next-blow a bubble from one side of the room to the other.

Then toilet paper rolling.

Tom won and I just love how E is looking at her daddy!

Next-keep three balloons in the air.

Then balloon tennis which was actually really hard! (maybe I feel that way since Dana and I got out first!)

Then they had to pick up bags with their mouths and not using hands or legs- I couldn't believe how good they were at it, Laura and I tested it out and couldn't get any!

I had to post a picture of Tom doing it because he was able to get all of them!

Then the dohnut eating game.

Next was the candy throwing game.

The next game was the cookie game-you had to wiggle the cookie into your mouth. I got some hilarious pictures but didn't want to post any, for fear of retribution some day! :) This one was cute of Janet!

The last game was the tissue box game.

Like always we had SUCH a good time! Already looking forward to next year!

Halloween Work Party

Ryan's work has a really fun Halloween family day that we went to for the first time this year. We had a great time and I wished we could have stayed longer! The weather was gorgeous.

Right when we arrived they were doing a costume contest so we quickly got the kids in line. Here is Jackson, he was not interested in walking onto stage! :)
This is what Cooper did. He was so cute.

Then we headed to the great bounce houses. Cooper saw some bigger boys jumping up like this and he tried it a few times. He almost flipped over and gave me a heart attack so I made him stop :)

Then we headed to the pony ride.

I was impressed by the horse's tail!

Next stop was the train ride.

While we were waiting the puppet show caught their eye so we went over to take a look.

But then quickly got back in line when the train came.

Here are both the boys on the train.

They had really good face painters there and Jackson and I were standing in line to get his face painted (Cooper did not want that done!) and while waiting we were watching a scarecrow woman do a little skit with her crow. She was so funny and Jackson watched for probably 5 minutes, then all of the sudden started wailing! So we hurried inside to play games with Cooper.

They had all kinds of yummy carnival food including hot funnel cakes, YUM! So we stuffed ourselves and then headed to Laura and Tom's party!

Peter Pan and the Crocodile

My two cutie pies are going to be Peter Pan and the Crocodile for Halloween.

We got to try out the costumes last weekend because Laura and Tom had their annual Halloween party AND Ryan's work had their work party. They wore their costumes all day and I feel like we already had Halloween!

This shows off the cute tail Laura made Jackson for his birthday. It worked perfectly with his costume!

The alligator hat I made was pretty cute but unfortunately if there was any wind at all this is what it did.

For L & T's party even the grown-ups dress up. We went with a Peter Pan theme- I'm Tinkerbell and Ryan is Captain Hook. Our entire family (including L & T's family and my parents) were characters from Peter Pan, I'll post a picture when I post about Laura's party.

Grandma and Grandpa S happened to be in town this same weekend so they spent a fun-filled weekend with us! On the same day as the two parties we also had Cooper's last t-ball game and a pizza party to celebrate it. It was a very busy but fun day!

Glasses

Cooper, Jackson, and their cousins Ben and Elizabeth all had to get glasses! I couldn't believe that all 4 of them have to wear them!

The strange thing is they really change the look of their entire face!

(I had a really cute pic of Cooper in them to put here but once I put it in I realized you could see my license plate in it-just imagine a cute Cooper in glasses here :)

Ok ok, you probably figured it out, they're just for fun!!