Leaves, Pumpkins, and Costumes

Can you believe it's already November?!?! I'm so amazed how quickly the past 2 months have flown by!! November means.....BIRTHDAY SEASON!!!! HELP!! Actually, it won't be that bad this year. Seth just wants to go to the movies with a couple of friends and have a sleepover. And I'm combining Jonah and Sam's birthdays this year...I booked it at Mountain Shadows Gymnastics. They do activities with the kids for as long as you want....yay!! All I have to do is the food. I figure I have to take advantage of them being willing to share a party while I can.

So last week was halloween and with that came a busy week of activities and excitement. The boys were so excited about Halloween this year...maybe because I finally made sure they all had decent costumes this time ;). Well..it wasn't TOO busy to start off with...the boys had Monday and Tuesday off so I took advantage of that and had them help me clean up the leaves in the back yard. Which really means that I raked up the leaves into a pile and they jumped in them and scattered them back all over the yard...then we repeated this over and over. With all the re-raking I probably raked the yard about 10 times...no wonder my back was so sore ;).








On Thursday Seth and Jonah both had Halloween "pumpkin" activities. So I went and watched Jonah in the morning and then came back for Seth in the afternoon...all the while chasing Jude all over the school...and across the schoolyard as he escaped outside...sigh...how many more months until he's three???? ;)







Seth and his best friend Euan...doing what boys do...








And yes..that's Jude lying in the boot racks...



On Friday the boys had the costume carnival. They did this last year as well...all the kids dress up and they go around to activity stations all over the school. The kids love it. Siblings are invited too...so I dressed Jude up and joined them.

Sam was 'Black Spiderman'




This is Sam with his two best buddies. He is ticked off with me because I made him let someone go in front of him so he could stand by his friends for a picture. Bad mom ;).



Seth was 'Indiana Jones'.



Jonah was a very freaky looking "Black Skull Warrior".





Here is Seth with some of his girl "friends"...see the look on his face...heehee...I think that's priceless!!



My little tiger...pretty scary with his 'soodoo' in his mouth huh?? ;)



Everyone in Sam's class got an "award" for their costume...so cute!





A little bit of picture overload today...but just a few more. This year we handed out candy and the boys went trick-or-treating. Actually Seth went with a friend this year...made me a little sad. The tradition is that Daddy takes them trick-or-treating...Seth's growing up :(.









And this week I'm getting ready for my mom and Lucille's visit. They're flying out on Saturday!!! YAY!!! I'm so excited to see them. They're actually coming for Jonah's baptism on Sunday. That will be soooo special to have them here.