Costumes of Halloween's Past

On Grace's first Halloween, she was a superhero named Amazing Grace!

Next, she was a monkey, a sweet little monkey!

Last year, she was a clown that had one joke.

Grace: How do you throw a party in outer space?

Me:  I don't know.  How do you throw a party in outer space?

Grace:  You plan-et!

Grace and Me: (lots of fake laughter)

This year, she will be...

You'll never guess.  Seriously, NEVER!

Fall Fun at the Hunt House

Mimi's s'mores on a stick

deliciousness

4-wheeler rides

pumpkins

carving pumpkins

pumpkin love

painting pumpkins

going on bentures (adventures)

freezing cold hayrides

giggles

chili by the bonfire

Jack-O-Happy

exhaustion

hanging out

tackling

cruising

That's what Fall Fun at the Hunt House looks like!

Note to self:  Take a couple of pictures of adults not just kids! At the next get together, I will take pictures of more than just kids!

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

we got our jack-o-lantern pizza cooked

gobbled him all up

waited patiently (with remote in hand) for the popcorn to pop

got all "cum-per-ble"

watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

laughed

and are extremely grateful for the time we get to spend together

Thank you, Jesus, for this wonderful, happy life you have blessed me with!

Get Ready...

this is coming on tv on Thursday night

and this Jack-o-lantern pizza is $5 at Papa Murphy's Pizza

looks like a fun family night

Spiders

I was able to do a little activity with Grace's class this week.  Grace helped me make spider cookies the night before.

I read a few books about spiders and made a spider handprint craft with the kids.  Of course, Carter had to make one too!

To finish off a spider-y day, we had spider soup for dinner!

Grace loves making spider soup!

And Carter loves eating...anything!

Ready and excited to eat some yummy spider soup!

"Grace, what does spider soup taste like?"

"Worms" Grace replies.

And for dessert, a spider-licous cookie!

the BEST toy

The BEST toy is one that comes with the purchase of a house!  Door stops!  After Carter explored the potty, he then discovered the door stops.  I immediately gave Grace the job of pulling all those little white caps off of every door stop in the house.  But...Carter enjoys the actual door stop!  He pulls and pulls and rips the entire thing off the wall and then holds it in his mouth.  He's quite proud of his ability to tear our house up! 

Love him, though!

Visiting the Taylor's in Texas

While on fall break this week, my mom and I took my kids to go visit my brother Daniel, Julie, Jenna, and new baby boy, Jett in Texas. We hung out and played and ate and talked and changed a whole bunch of diapers!  Grace loved seeing Jenna...she had really been missing her!

Jenna loved having Mimi there to read to her!

We visited Daniel's church on Sunday and got to see all the cool things that he has done there.

After church, Grace put on Carter's clothes and dressed up like a scarecrow.  Why can she fit into his clothes?

There was a dress up theme going on.

Carter had fun playing with the big girls!  He followed them all around the house!

She is such a big girl!  She loves Jett!

I think Carter loves him too!  He would make a great big brother, right John?

We visited downtown Kilgore.  Did a little shopping and saw the famous Kilgore oil wells.

We went to the big city, Longview, to eat dinner at Cheddars.  Carter and Jenna had a great dinner together in their highchairs!

Grace and Jenna had to get as much playing time in as they could before we left.  They played anywhere and everywhere!

I'm so glad we got to hang out with the Taylor's in Texas and meet Jett!  I miss them so much and can't wait 'til Thanksgiving when we will see them again!