Halloween Fun!

Okay so as you can tell from the very first picture, we have been having a lot of Halloween fun around here, at least Ben has that is. J/K. No really, tonight for FHE we carved our pumkins. Ben carved two, a good old Jack-O-Lantern, and then made a TRansformers one for James. Which James loved by the way. Harrison and I made one together, okay I did the whole thing myself, but he was by me while I did it. His and mine is the more goofy looking one.  When we first cut the pumpkin open we told James to scoop out the seeds and he was really excited to do that until  he looked inside the pumpkin and then told us how disgusting that was. We laughed. We had fun tonight though, we had donuts and all that. It made for a fun FHE.

The other pictures of Ben and I cooking are of Saturday night. We have been wanting to make a pumpkin pie out of a pumpkin and make it all from scratch, so we did. we bought the "cooking" type of pumkpin, cut it up, cooked it, mashed it up and made pie filling. Okay Ben did all that part, I put kids to bed and then made the crust. I was proud of myself for making the crust, I am never very good at that and this one turned out okay. i also made  pie cookies with the leftovers. (crust sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar and baked) The kids loved those.  We had quite a bit more pumpkin leftover though. So we made some pumpkin juice. It was more like a pumpkin smoothie, but it was still good. james really liked that. And then the rest we saved for the next day and I just cooked and seasoned it and served it with dinner. It was good. Better than squash.  So yeah we used up that pumpkin. It was really fun though to do all those things together. Ben and I had fun and we had lots of fun eating all that good pie. Oh and trust me, it was so dang good.  A fresh made pumpkin pie is way way way yummy. I couldn't stop eating the darn thing.

Halloween Party

Okay so we finally had our Halloween party! It was so fun. At least I think people had fun, I guess I don't really know. But a lot of people came. we had 80+ people here 45 of those were kids. Yeah it was pretty crazy here. But they seemed to enjoy the different games and everyone loved Ben's salsa. I will admit, it was pretty darn good. especially with some Guacamole and some sour cream to go with it. I ate way too much of it and I think I drank about 50 glasses of root beer. It was really good.  Anyways, I spent most of the week getting ready for the thing. Part of that was getting my house back in order after ignoring it so much from being sick. One day I cleaned every wall in the house, all the baseboards, all the blinds, windows, and then swept out the entire garage. I was very proud of myself and I most certainly did not cook dinner that night. 

But then I made a lot of the decorations and put treats in bags and all that stuff. Then the day before the party Ben and decorated until 3 am, got up the next morning and barely had everything ready by 3 pm when the party started. But I really didn't mind, I love to throw a party and I love to make it look good, so I really don't mind missing some sleep once in a while for it. The thing that took the most time was the garage. We emptied out the garage, and then hung orange and purple tablecloths around the room and had different things hanging from the ceiling. It was really cute. That is where we had all the games for the kids. We had bags for them to decorate/color, then a ball toss and they won a popcorn ball, and then bobbing for apples and they got to keep their apple and get a bag of caramels, and then a little treasure hunt game where they dug through different things to find candy, toys and rings.  It worked out pretty well I thought. we had a pinata halfway through and I think that was the highlight of the party for most kids. They sure loved that. 

James was so excited for the party he seriously could not sleep. He was up pretty much all night asking if it was morning yet, or time for the party or whatever. He definitely had a great time and loved his bumblebee transformers costume.  He was so cute. He wanted to help me so bad with the decorations and some things he could help with, like filling the pinata, giving me tape to hang things, he actually helped wash all the walls that one day. Anyways, so then he made his own decorations and put them up. He drew a bunch of skeletons and taped them onto the front door. our door was covered and it was so cute I couldn't take them down. Ever since the party he has been saying "thank you for the Halloween party" yeah, he really loved it.

Anyways, clean up really wasn't bad, it was all done that evening, so that is good. I guess we left a lot of the decor up because Halloween is still a couple weeks away so why not huh? Oh I am so sad though, we totally forgot to take any pictures! Ben and I were both pretty busy the entire time and we just forgot to get the camera out. So if any of you that came took some pictures, email them to me please, and then I will post them for those of you that missed out!

Catch Up

So yeah I have been a slacker at the blogging thing lately I guess. Mostly because I didn't think I had anything to write about. Everyday was pretty much the same, and then I got sick and didn't get around to sitting at the computer until now. So here is a catch up on our lives lately.

James loves loves loves school. He loves show and tell and singing time the best. He is learning all sorts of new songs and nursery rhymes and at night we hear him singing them in his bed. It is cute. He always gets so excited about show and tell and has taken the same thing...his transformer bumblebee.  He is obsessed with transformers lately and I have been letting him earn them. He has a chart, and by doing different things he can fill it up with stickers and once it is full, he gets the transformer. He now has 3 and takes them everywhere with him. I like that he likes them so much, I think it is cute. He is going to be bumblebee (the transformer...NOT the insect) for Halloween & is really excited about that. Oh he had his Primary program a few weeks ago and while he didn't stay completely still, okay he was pretty wiggly, he said his part just great and sang the songs he knew as loud as he could. I thought he did just great. I was proud of him.

I am loving this stage James is in. He talks and talks and talks and says the funniest things. HE asks questions about everything and wants to know everything. I can depend on him pretty well. He usually does what I ask whether he likes it or not. He really tries to be good and do what he is supposed to. I love it. I love doing things with him and just sitting there talking to him. The other day I was at the computer and he was on his way to the bathroom and stopped to chat with me and just kept chattin away until he said, "but I have to stop now before I poop my pants, but I won't I will hold it in until I get on the toilet" and then he ran into the bathroom. I laughed so hard at that.  Last week when I was so darn sick I came up to my room and he was making my bed and I asked him what he was doing. he said "making your bed for you" I asked him why he was doing that and he said "to be nice because you don't feel very good" I thought it was the sweetest thing in the whole world. He really is a sweetheart.

As far as my life goes, well things were going great. I was over the morning sickness, running 25 miles a week, eating well, keeping the house clean. Doing things with the kids. Made lots and lots of jam. yum. Life was good. And then I got a cold. It was really annoying, but I could live with it. Then it seemed to go away for a couple days and I went running with my friend one morning in the freezing cold rain. yes I know I am an idiot. It was probably one of the dumber things I have done. We ran 8 miles and I came home drenched, freezing and coughing my head off. I coughed straight for a week. Like not just little coughs, like I never slept I coughed so hard and I tore a muscle in my lower abdomen from coughing so hard. It was awful. I went to the DR, he wasn't helpful.  basically I just needed to tough it out since I am prego. But I am happy to say that I am only coughing a little now and am sleeping just fine. Ah. it is nice to be feeling good again. 

Now I am keeping myself 100% busy with our halloween party plans. We have a halloween party every year and it is always so fun to do, but we always go a little crazy about it.  I am really excited. Ben and I are going to be Bleaker and Juno (from the movie Juno, if you hadn't already guessed that :) We have a lot of fun games planned for the kids and of course homemade root beer and this year we are doing a salsa fest. Ben is making salsa and we are getting several other dips for the many chips to eat. It will be a lot of fun. BUt we still have tons to do, the party is next saturday, so my next post probably won't be until after the party and I will post all sorts of pictures from it. 

Oh, and on the stinker Harrison note.....I made all the invites, my sister becca came and helped me. we had them printed on orange paper and then stuck onto a black background with a candy corn glued on the top. they were really cute. Harrison liked them as well. He liked them so much he ate the candy corns off several of them. Yep, that is my stinker Harrison. I don't know why he didn't go for the entire Jar of candy sitting on the table, but I guess the invites up high and out of sight were a challenge so that must make the candy taste better or something. funny boys.

Oh yeah one more thing, my boys love halloween (don't know where they get THAT from) And at night we always hear Harrison in his bed saying"dyou hear dat ou-side?.......ooooooooooo (like a ghost).....spooooky!" it makes me laugh so hard.  Even when they are little stinkers they are darn cute.