Party nite

It’s no secret that Halloween is my favorite.  I like to have a little night with the kids away from the actual holiday so we have time to eat the crazy Halloween foods, make some crafts, carve pumpkins and just hang out.  Truly one of my favorite things in life.  Last night, we had all the things.  And Rosie even got to come!  She had fun playing with Maude, but Maude was a little too inclusive and poor Rosie left wet and smelly from Maude licking and rolling around with the puppy!  I think they had fun though!  

Daisy and Okive also got to come and have a few extra snacks.  

If you carve pumpkins, you gotta take off your Halloween costume.  And then feed the chickens the pumpkin guts.  It’s good that we live in the country I think.  

Caramel apples are pretty good - and extremely messy! 

 

Tatum had to work in Baldwin in the morning, so Cameron came to visit early.  Since they had other plans and didn’t stay for the festivities, I had to send their prize cups home!  

I bought this little white tree several years ago. I have had fun decorating it for each season.  My level for entertaining myself is pretty low.  

Madison keeps sending me all these cute Halloween treat ideas.  The Frankenstein pretzels turned out cute.

The witches cauldrons - fail. But tasted good!

Gummy eyeballs and fangs were a hit

Bloody syringes were also a hit - and we were all amazed at Wrenley’s shot taking skills!  

Wrenley is Doc McStuffins this year, she got right into her costume! 

Evie is the bride of Dracula. Love it!  

Wrenley made a ghost cake with a little help from her mom.  

Return of feet loaf. 

These ghost pigs in a blanket are cute.  

Gg made ham and cheese pies. They are adorable! 

And mummy dogs - always awesome! 

But the prize for the most popular goes to GG for the spider eggs.  They were gone!  I think it is hilarious how the little girls love deviled eggs and potato salad. Not sure many kids are quite as excited by those types of foods. 

A few crafts were attempted. 

And some carving was done. 

Harper ended up breaking her pumpkin but it’ll still work! 

Evelyn worked really hard and carved her own this year.  She did great! 

Halloween happiness In a series of photos.  A truly great night! 

Day off=pumpkin patch day

The kids had yesterday and today off school for parent teacher conferences. Did I attend conferences?  Well…..no.  I don’t really see any reason to - the girls are on the honor roll, and I am at the school all the time.  If they had something to tell me, they could.  Harper and Saige aren’t really into breaking rules or causing drama.   Skip.  Bad mom?  Maybe. But I digress. 

Madison wanted to take the girls to the pumpkin patch.  We decided to meet them when I got off work.  We had lunch at McDonald’s, and then hit the patch.  

I will forever be a fan of fall, pumpkin patches, Halloween and days spent with people I love.  

Add in that I really like the Schaake family, and that’s just a bonus.  It was good to catch up with them - a once a year tradition where I get to see their kids and now grandkids helping out!  

I did send this photo to Cameron.   When my kids were small, I always took them to the patch.  We never had a surplus of money, and the pumpkins are sold by the pound, so my rule was you could get what ever you could carry back.  Usually that resulted in moderately small pumpkins - genius parenting hack right?  Cameron thinks that you should always have to carry your own pumpkin and he was indignant about the cheating, using a wagon!

Wrenley must have picked out 200 pumpkins before she finally found one she liked.  We were sort of late and they were pretty picked over and quite a few broken or rotten ones.  She was yelling YUCK a whole lot!  

We had a lot of fun. I enjoyed time with the girls (all of them). Frozen apple cider was amazing and we even managed to go on an absolutely gorgeous day!  

Harper Saige and I went in to hit up a couple of thrift stores, the spirit of Halloween store, dollar tree for craft supplies, and got some groceries.  It was a long afternoon! 

Cameron sent me this photo. He took Tatum out for “fancy dinner….not Wendy’s” last night to celebrate her successful run in the half marathon last weekend.  It cracked me up - I mean what could possibly be fancier than Wendy’s? 

Yesterday, I started to dig sweet potatoes.  I will admit I was disappointed in the size of them.  Although some of the plants got damaged last weekend in the cold, most of the vines are still green, so I decided to leave the rest and hope they grow a little more.  I am happy that there are sweet potatoes out there, just wish they were bigger!  

We are looking forward to a fun weekend.  I have big ideas.  We shall see if I can make my Pinterest board come to fruition!