Trick or Treating (October 31)

The boys were SO super excited for trick or treating this year. (Well, 2/3 of them, at least haha) The boys wore their costumes most of the day, so when we got home from picking them up from daycare, they were already ready to go.

This year we had an unanticipated "fireman" theme, with both Cashel and Ryan being firemen and Kendrick being Marshall from Paw Patrol, a.k.a. the "fire doggy".

The boys were super hard core this year, and they brought home entirely WAY too much candy.

I pointed out to Kendrick that he had a tail when he was at Halloween Trail, and he kept grabbing it while trick or treating and laughing haha

This little guy was plum tuckered out early on, so he slept on Mama for quite some time.

Daddy spent most of the night out with them, but not because Ryan and I didn't want to go with them. When he and I went back to the house to get the mini van to pick them up, we lost them for a good solid 20 minutes (and Daddy's phone randomly wouldn't connect to a network, so we couldn't get ahold of them). We were both frustrated a bit, but I eventually did find them.

In between the two little spurts of trick or treating, we went over to visit my boss and his wife so they could see the boys, and boy were they surprised to see him in his firefighting gear!

I told him he was lucky to be in the only picture where all three boys were looking at the camera the whole night haha

At the end of the evening, I dropped them off in another close by neighborhood while Ryan and I went home so I could feed him and then get supper started. We went back just before dusk to pick them up again, and they were all exhausted and ready to call it a night, with buckets filled to the brim!

Now begins the struggle to hide it from them and hopefully they don't tear the house to pieces looking for it ;)

Halloweekend (October 30-November 1)

We had such a great, relaxing, productive weekend this past weekend, and it was so nice to finally have one of those kinds of weekends.

Friday evening, we were so blessed to have Mark's aunt and uncle from Oklahoma up for supper at our home. (We try to do that on occasion basically just so that we actually clean our house up haha) It feels like it has been years since we've had a chance to catch up with them, since every time they're in town, it's usually for a big family event, and we're super busy with the boys during the family event. It was great to visit over some Stromboli and let the boys play in the toy room after supper while we kept on visiting. We sure wish Karen and Del and their sweet family lived closer!

Saturday morning we woke up to a pretty darn "clean" house, which gave us the opportunity to actually finish some projects (okay, MARK got to finish some projects) that had been on our "to do" list for quite some time. I keep saying that I feel like I have a brand new bathroom simply because all our toiletries finally have an enclosed place to go instead of just hanging out on the open shelving that was previously above our toilet there. THANKS, HONEY!! :)

After naps, the boys had a fantastic time trick-or-treating, and got WAY too much candy!

Sunday was a pretty relaxing day for us. Daylight savings didn't mess with us too much, even if the boys were up at 6:30am (which isn't too crazy for us anyway, as that's when we're usually up during the week). After church, we had Mark's Mom over for goulash for lunch, and then after a failed attempt at getting the crankiest Cashel ever down for a nap, we decided to re-direct his energy into raking an enormous pile of leaves. Kendrick joined in as well, and Mark helped them out a bit before they totally demolished it by taking huge handfuls of leaves and clobbering Mama with them. I was totally covered before long. FUN afternoon :)

The boys napped so great after that, and Mark enjoyed finishing up the Vikes game and NASCAR race while I got majorly caught up on some digital scrapping.

It was so nice to finally have a weekend to just sort of unwind and relax at home. I just love the ages that our boys are at right now, and am so excited to see how we fit together as a family of five in just four more short months! I'm already plotting costumes for this little one for next year, who probably won't quite fit into the monster costume at seven months old, and will be too big for the tiny tiger. The question is...will it be a princess or a puppy dog? Wouldn't you like to know? ;)