Halloween 2012

The Saturday before Halloween we went to the Wood River Halloween Parade. We have great spots right in front on Charla's house! Ollie is always the stinker with his bag on his head so I cannot get a good pic of him! All the kids are waiting patiently!

It's starting!  It's starting!

Ivy learned quick that if you wave and look cute you get more candy!

Ollie learned to dance for the candy!

Later in the afternoon we went to a church picnic down the road from Papa's house.  We cannot pass up bounce houses and face paint!

 

Two days before Halloween we carved pumpkins after school/work...Ollie always wants an elaborate pumpkin.  This year he picked Iron Man. 

Ivy had a good time "carving" her pumpkin top!

Still working on Iron Man.

Ollie carved my pumpkin with a regular jack-o-lantern face pretty much by himself!  I think they both turned out very good!

Ivy's pumpkin is very scary!

Finally it's Halloween night!  Papa came over for dinner to see the kiddos go trick-or-treating.  What a beautiful Cinderella!

Daddy's putting some camo paint on Ollie's face.  He was a Special Forces Army Man!

Ollie only wanted to stay out for a bout 30-45 min.  He was ready to come home and pass out candy.  He loved running to the door when the doorbell rang!

Fall Party

Yesterday afternoon was Oliver's Fall Party at school. I took the afternoon off to help out with the party. I was in charge of the pumpkin art station. I took pics of all the kids with their finished pumpkins for the room mom. They were all very excited to show off their pumpkins!

 

Then there was a bobbing for apples station.  But it was paper apples.  You have to move them by sucking on a straw from one bowl to the other.  No hands!

There were 5 stations in all but I could not see all of them.  After they went to tall 5 stations it was time for a snack and movie!  Smores!!!

Rock N Roll Half Marathon

This morning Erin and I ran the Rock N Roll Half Marathon! We left my house at 5 am. The race started at 7am. We were able to find a place to park, use the potty & and then find our corral with 40 min to spare. Then about 20 min before we decided to go use the potty again. We made it back to the corral right at 7!

We had a beautiful view of the Arch when we were getting ready to start.

Almost there!

This was a fun race!  There were lots of bands and we were feeling good.  We finished in about 2 hours & 27 mins.  About 20 mins longer than our last one but this time we had a team of 3 and only 4 legs!  Baby Thurston did a good job and may end up being a runner too!!

 

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday we took the kids to the pumpkin patch. We got there early so it was not too crowded. We didn't have to wait in line to ride the ponies or the train!

Awe a baby kitten!

Always the climber!

They always love the corn boxes!!!

Ollie has a corn belly!

And corn socks?!?

Ollie loves using the corn machines to shuck the corn!

The horse is named "Lady"

Ivy's pony is named "Sugar".

Surfing down the slide?

Ollie held onto Ivy the whole time they were on the train.  He was not going to let her fall out!

It was the perfect morning for the pumpkin patch!