Halloween 2013

The Movie Star:  Grace's costume was an evolving one...at the beginning of the night she said that she was dressed as mommy (although, I'm pretty sure that I would never wear any of this. ever.), but by the end of the night she claimed she was a movie star.  That's her story and she is sticking to it.  I think all she really cared about was wearing make-up and earrings!!!

The Rock Star:  Carter wanted to be Oona, the purple Bubble Guppie.  I was definitely thrown by that one...how could I dress my boy in a purple mermaid costume???  I decided that he could be Oona, the purple rock star, and he "totally rocked!!!" 

We met up with Iron Man and more of our family to go trick or treating.

After the first house and the first of the candy, Carter decided to walk with his bag open...I guess it saved him some time at each door.

Saved time = more candy!!!

Grace was running to keep up with everyone.  She was not going to be left out!

We went back to Grandma and Grandpa's house to eat some candy (and a little bit of real food)

and do some other stuff too!

and then we carved pumpkins

john and carter worked on "the boys' pumpkin."

while grace and i worked on "the girls' pumpkin."

grace designed our pumpkin all by herself and together we carved it.

the taylor's pumpkins are on the left, then grace's (with the heart nose and scary teeth), the boys', and on the right are the wilhite's

after pumpkin carving, we gathered around the bonfire and ate dinner.

carter shared his hot dog with "kylie puppy."

grace finally got to eat a peanut butter cup s'more...this girl loves some sweets!!!

once we cleaned off all the sticky marshmallows and melted chocolate off our faces and fingers, we went on a hayride and laughed and sang and snuggled.

we had such a fun-filled fall weekend!!!

fishin'

While at the cabin, John, Carter, and I went fishing.  It was fun hanging out with just my boys.  That doesn't get to happen very often (or never).  Carter Man was the only child for a little while and I was the only girl.  Carter received all the attention and we were able to experience and enjoy his personality.  I liked it.  

fall at the cabin

we spent the weekend at the cabin with our family.  the kids spent a lot of time playing on the gator.

drew and kylie...he loves her

she's one of my favorite things ever.

we went on a nature hunt.

we found some stuff.

lots of meaningful conversations were had.

carter loved loved loved riding the 4-wheeler (especially with mimi)!!!

this is scary...these two were not the best drivers (just ask poppa's azalea bush).

we decorated cookies and immediately consumed them!

this is scarier!!!

fall is fun!

instafriday

it's friday and you know what that means...no school tomorrow!!!  oh, and here are this week's instagrammies!

we went to the pumpkin patch and had a fabulous time!

it's starting to feel like fall and we ate some taco soup...i kinda put a little too much (read: the perfect amount) of cheese in my soup.

we also had a caramel apple bar.  the kids thought this was the best thing ever.

i finally cleaned out my purse and found 12 bobby pins, 23 receipts, a whole medicine cabinet worth of supplies (not sure how i could ever get sick with the 3 hand sanitizers that were also in there), some ribbon, a couple pieces of furry gum, and grace's brown bow the i got mad at her for losing (oops!).  oh yeah, and 26 cents!!!

this week at awana, it was cray-zee hair night!!!

have a fantastic fall weekend...it's perfect outside!!!