Halloween Parties 2010

Both of the kids had Halloween parties at school where they got to dress up in their costumes and trick or treat. This was the only bribery for sweet Henley to even got to school that day. I truly believe our daughter would stay with me every second of every day if possible. You can tell by the look on her face that she was so excited to be there. However, I am sure once the candy started coming that frown turned upside down. Here are the pictures of her before school.

Christian had his party at the end of the week and got to dress up that morning. Henley did not quite understand why she was not supposed to wear her costume, so I was made to put hers on too. The outfit was over her PJ’s because we were already late from the fit she through for not having on her costume. The excitement over trick or treating was evident in their pictures. I think they had acquired more candy in the past three days because of parties at school and at church. We did not even have to trick or treat on Sunday because we could have used the candy we had to give out to other children. I am not sure who is going to eat it all?

I was not able to go to their parties because of some other things going on, but here are the pictures.

Pumpkin Patch 2010

Hello friends...sorry to whom all read our blog that it has been awhile since I posted. As you will read in the next few blogs, there is good reason. However, I need to update for my sweet family, so they can one day look back at these memories as fondly as I will remember them.

October 2010 has been a month of craziness as it always has been in the past. There are many festivities that the children love to participate in and not enough time to do them all. This year one of the most fun was a trip to the pumpkin patch at Old Baker’s Farm. The kids have gone every year, but this time we went with our dear friends the Copeland’s. The husband’s were out of town hunting and we decided it would be fun to get out and pick our pumpkins for Halloween.

We loaded all five of the kids up in my car early Saturday morning and headed out. It takes about 45 minutes to get out to Harpersville from our house, but it went by quicker than that. The kids had a blast together, as they always do in the car on the trip over. When we got to the pumpkin patch the boys all needed to use the bathroom. I wish I could of taken a picture of 4 little behinds peeing behind a big SUV. It was very cute.

The kids had so much fun running through the corn maze, riding horses, petting animals, climbing these huge hay barrels...which by the way gave me a heart attack. I could just envision a broken limb of some kind from a big fall. Luckily, that did not happen. We then stood in line for what seemed like an hour before climbing into a hayride for a ride to the pumpkin patch. I forgot how much hay makes everyone in our family sneeze and that would be an issue in the next few days. Never the less we arrived at the huge field of pumpkins and each child got to pick their own pumpkin. Now, just imagine trying to carry a little child and two pumpkins and a diaper bag. Not really my idea of fun...next year I will plan much better. It was really muddy because of some rain, but we got two great pumpkins. The day started to get away from us and the kids were getting hungry. We rode back to the beginning of the patch and went to Chick-fil-a...everyone’s favorite.

We had a great time and it is so nice to have such great friends to do these wonderful traditions with each year.