Halloween 2015

Happy Halloween!  We kicked off our celebration with school parties.  Wyatt and Lincoln had a fun Halloween parade Friday morning that I was able to go watch.  It was so cute to see all the kids in their costumes!  Then I got to volunteer at Gavin’s fall party at school so it was fun to get to meet the kids in his class.  They painted pumpkins, decorated a cupcake and played bingo. 

Last night we had beggars night so the kids got to go trick or treating around our neighborhood.  Jen brought her kids over and the boys loved getting to go out with their cousins.  It worked out nicely that they got to go last night instead of tonight since the weather was much nicer than it is today and now we can watch the Cyclones and Royals games J.

I took Ainsley around the neighborhood with the other kids and she loved her first time trick or treating!  She just kicked her arms and legs and giggled.  It was so cute.   

Pumpkin Carving

We carved our pumpkins on Sunday.  All the boys got in on the action and had fun scooping out all the gunk and seeds.  Poor Wyatt got a weird spaghetti pumpkin which I have never seen before but every time you tried to scope it out it just came out like spaghetti.  He was so determined and kept scoping and scoping long after the other two were done and it just never seemed to end so we finally just decided to go ahead and carve it and luckily that still worked.

Wyatt and Gavin also got into the carving action a little this year and helped carve the pumpkin faces.

Here’s the finished product!  Gavin's is a storm trooper, Wyatt's Darth Vader, Lincoln wanted a scary face and Ainsley a silly one.  We are all ready for Halloween J.

Wyatt - Soccer

Wyatt had his last soccer game of the fall season on Sunday.  For their last game all the kids got to play in their Halloween costumes which they loved and the weather was perfect!  After watching Gavin play soccer Wyatt really wanted to and he did so much better this year compared to last year.  He definitely had his moments where he was much more into the game on some days vs. others.  When he was really into it he did awesome and usually scored a couple of goals and other off days he wasn’t too into the game and just kind of let the kids run around him.  The nice thing about Happy Feet which we love is that all the kids do their warm ups in the beginning and they use games to learn the different soccer skills and then they go right into the game for the second half so there’s no waiting around which keeps the kids attention.  Overall he had a great time and two of his best games were this last one when he got to channel his inner Darth Vader and the game that Ryan went to and told him to pretend he was playing Gavin and he got super aggressive lol.  I guess we know what drives this kid. 

Night Eyes

We started our Halloween festivities early by heading to the zoo last Sunday for Night Eyes.  Ryan stayed home with Ainsley so i got some fun time with the boys.  They had a blast trick or treating through the zoo and seeing some of the big animals like the tiger, leopards and lions which were so active.  Plus we had a perfect ending to the night when we stumbled upon the star wars characters.  To stay that Wyatt and Gavin were excited is an understatement.  Especially Wyatt, he was in love :).