Halloween 2010

The Halloween festivities began with the annual neighborhood parade and party. It was the boys first chance to wear their costumes (and they're really into dressing up)! The boys favorite part was the inflatable slide-no surprise and my favorite part was watching Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown outside under the stars. I bet it's been 20 years since I've seen that movie! That makes me feel old! Esp. since the boys had no idea who Snoopy was!






Halloween weekend:
Since Halloween fell on a Saturday this year we decided to seize the opportunity and do something we talked about for years. . . host a big Halloween party! The preparations began week before including bringing in hay bails and getting plenty of lights and decorations. I didn't cook (brilliant idea on my part!) we just had appetizers and treats and lots and lots of drinks. Blake makes a mean 'party punch' and I perfected my jello-shot receipe (after several failed attempts! The good thing about messing up jello-shots is that you can happily consume the mistake). I think it's pretty safe to say that between the drinks, spook-alley and friends, a good time was had by all!







Now I need to back up a couple of days and post some pics of the boys Halloween party at their preschool. I volunteered in their class that day and it was so fun to see the kids in their adorable costumes! It was also neat to see the boys in their class. I was very surprised to see that they NEVER sat next to one another! I was afraid that they would be too dependent on one another and that a splitting them for kindergarten would be traumatic. Their teacher said that there are days when they're joined at the hip and days they are on opposite sides of the room. Go figure!


Then the big day finally arrived! The boys were super excited about trick-or-treating (and to be honest, I was feeling a little Halloweened-out at this point)! They ran back from the houses telling us every single piece of candy they got. It was really cute! We let the boys go hog-wild with the candy for the fist 2 days and then I put it up and they didn't ask for it for days. Then it was rationed out.

Hillridge Farm

A day at the Hillridge Farm is something we look forward to every fall. And I should mention that while it's called a 'farm' it's really more of an amusement park. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. Overall, a GREAT day!!

New Ride

So I've had this idea for some time now that before the boys started school, we'd need a bigger car. A not-huge-just-big-enough that we can *comfortably* fit some passengers in the back. Of course if you know me, once I get an idea in my head. . .
Rojo Mama was starting to have a few problems so Blake agreed that it was time. He let me pick and after looking at every small suv I chose the Ford Flex! It's so cool, lots of neat features and a really smooth ride! It's a 2010, but used. It took me a couple days to delete all the gangster-rap from the stereo, but now I think I have a handle on the audio features and we are obscenity free!

Charleston, SC

Since Blake was gone for such a long time earlier this month, he invited us along on a business trip he was going on to Charleston, SC. It is a charming city and we had a great time. Although I'm not sure we'll ever be invited along on another business trip, it was so nice to be together as a family at the end of the day.