October Randoms

Claire carpools to preschool with her little friend Teyah...

Claire's creepy friend in October was Mr. Skeleton... she really did enjoy having him in our kitchen - haha!  She loved to push a chair up to him and move his arms and have little conversations with him like she does with her princesses and dolls...

Cousin tea party at Grandma Dangerfield's...

Typical Arizona winter attire- coat and flip flops...

One of the kids favorite places to eat out - Bucca de Beppo...

One of Jake's favorite friends and neighbors, London...

My laundry buddy...

The kids had a long weekend for fall break, so on the Monday they had off of school we went to Pump it Up during the glow hours...

Haunted House date night with friends!  I screamed and covered my eyes through most of it... haha...

Ben said goodbye to his Cavalier- we had this car since we were first married - so almost 13 years later, it was time for something new... Ben is SO happy! haha

The kids love to do the rock climbing wall at the gym...

Halloween 2014

Ben and I didn't dress up this year (lame!) but Emily and Ben did!  They are so fun...

Trick or treat!  The kids just LOVE this...

But I think they love this part even more - counting, categorizing and trading candies...

School Halloween Parties

All of the kids had their Halloween parties at school - Claire and Jake were able to wear their costumes to school - they were so excited...

Kindergarten Halloween parade...

Jake loves his cute class and teacher...

This boy is so cute :)

I was in charge of Becca's class party - we did rotations through activities - roll a pumpkin, pumpkin man craft, candy corn marshmallow structures, and pumpkin bean bag toss...

Snack plates!

Love this sweet girl :)

Haunted gingerbread house

These guys were all business putting together their edible haunted house... (except for maybe Ben- haha)

Our finished product...

After we took a picture, the kids ate it...

The picture on the left is the pic on the box of the haunted house kit - and the right is our version... haha... wouldn't it be funny if the pictures on the outside of the food boxes actually were realistic?

Costumes and Trunk or Treat!

We had a very busy Saturday!  We had a soccer game in the morning, then the pumpkin patch, and then we hurried and got ourselves all ready for the trunk or treat that night!  This was the first time the kids got all their costume stuff on at once - so we took pics before heading to the church...

Jake the Hulk

Claire Bear as Princess Belle

Cleopatra Emma

Becca as Madeline!

All the kids chose their costumes- they all picked very different things!  It was fun to see them all dressed up...

Trunk or Treat festivities...

Face painting...

Eating lots of candy they collected...

Emma and her cute and scary friends...

Pumpkin Patch

After Jake's soccer game, we rushed off to the Desert Botanical Gardens for their pumpkin patch activities.  Ben was working this day, so that's why you don't see any pics of him :(

Tractor hay ride!  I love this messy haired cute Claire :)

Hard to choose...