Monday, December 1, 2008

Where has the time gone? (Revised about 10 different times)

I have been planning on posting pics from halloween since, well...halloween. I cant believe I am doing it after Thanksgiving!! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We did! We went to my Dad's house with all the family. It was alot of fun!. I was going to take pics of the Thanksgiving football game goin' on, but I was too lazy. It was cute tho watching my kids have so much fun. They really enjoyed the football game.

I am on the computer tonight in an attempt to plan my sons 7th birthday party! My baby is growing up so quickly! The year has really snuck up on me. I usually have his birthday party planned in November - this year I am planning it the week before!

Now, back to the Halloween..... Halloween was a great day for us and we had alot of fun. I hope you had a happy halloween also! Earlier in the day I was in charge of an activity for Jake's class halloween party. Though I was super nervous, it turned out really well. I am planner and everything has to be just right. I only had 2 short days to plan this activity. By Thursday night I was doing a pretend setup on my kitchen counter following the pictures I drew in my notebook. I can be a bit crazy with the planning. Below are pictures of my "examples" I was going to show his class. They had the choice of a witch cupcake or a "dirt" cupcake.

For trick or treating we had Jareds parents over, my brother Robby & Zachary over, my other brother Brian, Lisa, Nate & Ty, and my Dad showed up for a minute. Matt & Teena decided to stay home and trick or treat in their neighborhood and my Mom had to work so she couldn't make it. (We missed you Mom, Dave and Matt, Teena, Bryce & Evie! )

These are pics of the boys before school. They were unknown phantoms...oooh, scary. (You see behind the boys there is an archway and then a doorway and then another doorway? Well, that is our closet and that is how the neighbor boy walked in our house the other day and saw Jared standing there naked...... I dont know if it should be....but it was pretty dang funny! )


This is Josh and Jared's Dad. Can you tell who is who? :)


The kids (& Jared) before trick or treating. The boys' black costumes blend in with each other. I cant tell if I have both kids in this pic or if I cut off Joshy's head.


This is what our trick or treaters got to see when they came to our door for candy. They had to get their loot from these good lookin' men. (In looking at this picture it makes me wonder if they are smiling for the camera under their masks? If they are that would be so funny! I am so easily amused. You did know those were masks right?!? )



There were only a few kids who were too scared to come up and get candy and I dont blame them!
That was a quick run down of our halloween and Thanksgiving.! As mentioned above, I hope that you all had a happy halloween and great thanksgiving!
Now, for everyone who always tells me I need to "update my blog" (Mom, Katie, Anjie....) Enjoy! I hope that I can get Joshy's birthday pics up before the end of the year! :)
Have a great day!

6 comments:

Katie said...

Hey, at least you updated your blog...finally!!!

I love the holidays. Glad you had fun!!

Lytton Living said...

Happy Thanksgiving to you too! Cute idea for Halloween cupcakes. Tell Josh happy birthday for us.

Kristen said...

Oh I love you little phantoms! I think it is cool that your husband gets into dressing up, it sounds like you had a lot of fun!

Faucett Family said...

Sounds like you had a good Thanksgiving/Halloween! The kids and Jared looked like they had fun!

Anjie said...

Thanks for the update!

I love the cupcake crafts. Gonna steal the idea for MOMS Club next year.

The costumes are wonderful...even though I LOVE having my girl, I think having two boys would be fun at Halloween time!

Hope the birthday party planning/execution is awesome!

AK Forever said...

Barbi, Happy Halloween and Thanksgiving to you to. We had a nice Thanksgiving here. We missed not having the family around.
I love those cupcakes what a great idea.
Thanks for updating the blog. We look so forward to seeing photos and stories of One great Aunt, Uncle and cousins. It makes being away a lot easier. Love ya guys and miss ya tons!