Park and Pumpkin Carving

The day before Halloween was gorgeous so we went to the park in the afternoon before we carved pumpkins.

I decided to attempt to cross this thing because Cooper loves it but has a hard time with it... so did I!

The sky was SO blue!

Jackson's favorite thing at the park is the slide!!

Then we headed home to carve pumpkins. Cooper was not a huge fan. He wanted to cut the pumpkins but did NOT want to touch the inside at all.

Jackson was all for it!

Then we made caramel apples for Cooper's teachers and ourselves of course!

See that hand trying to sneak in the back?

YUMMY!

We made them with heath and chocolate chips and they were SO good!

We had to check out our lit pumpkins that night.

Trick or Treating at G & G's House

The day before Halloween after church we went to Gma and Gpa's house to trick or treat and have lunch.

The LOVE to trick or treat at G & G's house!

They each got a bag of treats and one of the things in it were these dracula teeth. I think Cooper looks especially scary! Sorry Benny Boy, we can't see you too well!

The kids sat and ate some snacks before lunch...smart, right?

Then they played this fun ghost game.

One of the treats they got to make was candy corn yogurt.

Yummy!

Cooper enjoyed his meal thoroughly.

The cute Halloween table.

After this party we had two more fun Halloween activities that I'll post about soon. Good thing we all love Halloween!

Neighborhood Halloween Party

The Saturday before Halloween our street had a little block party. We made these owl cupcakes for the cake walk.

The highlight of the party was this bounce house. (Cooper with our friend and neighbor Zach). Ryan was out of town so I spent the majority of my time standing outside of this bounce house watching them!

Cooper and some neighborhood friends racing for the bounce house!

I thought the highlight was the fire truck coming to visit our party!

The boys with some of our neighborhood friends posing on the firetruck! Last year was the first year for the party and they had the firetruck come also. The boys that year dressed as a firefighter and dalmation so they looked perfect on the firetruck!

Playing a bean bag toss.

This has nothing to do with the party but this is the best person Cooper has ever drawn so I had to post it! :)

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!