Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween!


On Thursday we had our last swimming lesson. In my quest to turn my children into the next Micheal Phelps I put them back into swimming lessons. I could not find lessons at the same time, so we have spent an hour and a half at the pool every Tuesday and Thursday for the last month. It has about done me (and Laynie) in, so needless to say, I have decided that my boys will have to find other ways to become Olympic Gold Medalists because I did not sign them up for the next session of lessons!


And, in preparation for Halloween we finally carved our pumpkins.


They carved the pumpkins all by themselves this year and did a great job!

And now on to Halloween!

Although the kids where not able to celebrate Halloween at school, Jacob's teacher held a fun luncheon today. Lots and lots of food (and sugar) to start the day out right!

This is my attempt at a scary Halloween dinner. It was supposed to be a mummy, but Jacob thought it looked like Frankenstein in bandages and Kelly thought it was a Skeleton. At least I get an A for effort, right?

Finally, here are the kids in their costumes. Laynie dressed up as Minnie Mouse for the Monster Mash, but it seemed like a lot of effort for tonight so tonight she just wore her pumpkin shirt instead.

Here are the boys trying to scare the trick or treaters! Ryan did win an award for the scariest costume at our school's Monster Mash last Friday! We had a great day and hope that you did too!



P.S. I know to some of you it may sound like no fun, but for us, our solution to the Halloween Candy is a life saver. The boys get to eat candy on Halloween night and then the day after they "sell" their bag of candy to us for $10.00 (it is great having children who think $10.00 is a small fortune!). They get to buy a toy and we don't have to deal with the sugar induced craziness that usually follows Halloween!