cookie time

Last night i decided to "make some memories" and bake some halloween sugar cookies with the kids. Ashley was having alot of fun eating the colored sugar, as you can see. Taitlynne made a couple but then left me to finish them all.

Heres some of the yummy cookies before they go into the oven.

The cookies turned out really good. I had to give almost all of them to Taitlynne to take to school so I would not eat them. I do not have that kind of will power to sit and look at them all day........Yum

Time to Carve the pumpkin!!!

So, I finally gave in to Taitlynne. She has been begging to carve our pumpkin since last week, but I have been to lazy to let her do it. Last night i promised we would do it today.

And, After one punctured finger and 3 tantrums later.........

Halloween party

Tonight we went to my moms church for "Trunk-or-treating". It was really fun. All thekids liked it alot. They had dinner, games, and a costume parade. My parents took my nephews and I went with Amber and brianna (Taitlynnes sister). Ashley and Avery were knocked out on the way home. They had a long, but fun day. Ashley Is so protective over her bag of candy that she got. She HAD to go to sleep with it right next to her...........great.

We had a fun filled day today. We started out by going to Tanaka Farms. This is the first time that I have been here and I liked it alot. The favorite part of the day was probly the petting zoo. Ashley LOVED this part. We went on the tractor ride around the farms. Half way through they had a pumpkin shoot, Where they shot a pumpkin out of a cannon. It was a hot day and just as we were getting ready to leave. ashley had one of her "throw herself on the ground" tanrums. about this time I knew it was time for a nap, so we quickly left. all in all, I was a fun start to our day. I will definately go again next year.

This weekend we went across the street to the firehouse. They were having an open house. Now, Ashley LOVES LOVES LOVES firetrucks (for some reason) but when we got there she was so shy. SHe only screamed when we put her in the firetruck. That is why I dont have any pics of her. The fireman let us do whatever we wanted. we got to go in both firetrucks, see their beds, living area, ambulance and fire gear. It was really fun. I think antoine had the most fun of all though. For sure we will go again next year when ashley is older and avery knows what is going on. He had not a clue, but loved his fire helmet they gave him.

Halloween

Taitlynne decided she was going to be a Maid after looking for 3 HOURS for a costume. We finally found this one. I thought the headband looked a little dumb with the white part around the whole head. so i cut it of a little. NOW I wish i didnt cut it, It looked cuter the other way. Oh well, taitlynne didnt saw anything, so were good. ha ha.

Here is Ashleys halloween costume. This is VERY rare that i got her to smile. I guess she is coming out of her shell. SHe actually would model it for me........Im still shocked.

I bought Averys costume about a month ago and i just tried it on for the first time today. Its a little small. As you can see, he has so much hair, you cant even see the hat. I think im going to have to go buy some ears to go with it.

Avery's first hair cut

In sept we Noticed how long averys hair was getting and we finally broke down and took him to the mall for his first haircut. The lady that was cutting his hair was so nice. I loved the place we took him too, It was called first cuts. It was really colorful in the shop and they had little rocketships for the kids to sit in as they watched little flat screen tv's with movie playing. BUt with that luxury, you are also paying in the price of the haircut....very Expensive. But, i wanted to go here for his first cut. He wasnt sure what was going. Afterwards, the put his first curls in an envelope and gave a cute little certificate. WE played at the play area afterwards.

The Gap casting call

We recently went to the Gap casting call at the mall. We waited in line, not long though since we were in the semi-front. When we finally went in the kids were tired because it was nap time. I had to tickle avery to make him smile. but you can see in his eyes how tired he is. If you know Avery, you know it doesnt take much to make him smile. Ashely was a different story. I cant even get her to smile for me at home in private. So i had a feeling she would be difficult. Especially since it was nap time. We didnt get any smiles for her pics.