Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween

This is how the evening started...a total Hershey Kiss meltdown! I was a bit worried that this would be the extent of our Halloween pictures of the kiss with almonds! Buster is in the background howling. He always bays when Spencer cries...the sound is something to experience let me tell you! Not only do you have a crying boy, there is a beagle howling just as loud!
He finally pulled at it hard enough to break open the Velcro on the suit and that was it for him.
She was a little more willing after some coaxing by Auntie Julie. She even said "cheese" for me.

Auntie Julie dressed up as a kiss too to convince Aubrey and Spencer that it wasn't so bad getting dressed up.
Grandma Cheryl put on the adult kiss costume at the church though. She made the kids' costumes too...I am so grateful that she is talented and willing to help! :)

My cute little girl...still amazes me just how cute she can be sometimes! I am truly blessed to be her mommy!

He may not look like it, but he was happy to be here. He was just so busy looking at everything and all the people in costumes...there was a lot to take in.

Dean doing his best to keep both kids together for a picture...I never did get the great shot I was hoping for, but got some that are good enough. I think Aubrey was saying Momma in this one, hard to get mad at that! :)


Aubrey in the back of Julie's car at Trunk or Treat at church. This way she couldn't run off in the middle of the photo shoot! :)
Spencer doing his best to look like he was having a good time!

Our two kisses...one with nuts and one without! ;)

Our church did "Trunk or Treat" again this year as a safe place for the community to go trick or treating. We helped Julie and Cheryl decorate Julie's trunk and then let the kids go there. This was our contribution to the evening. (Not too bad for waiting to the last minute to figure out something to do!)
Another one of the trunks.
This was by far my favorite car there. It was a red VW Bug that was made to look like Bob the Tomato from Veggie Tales. The kids LOVE Veggie Tales and both pointed to the car and said Bob. They had it set up that the candy would slide down the tongue and the kids would pick it up from there...very creative!

Spencer getting his candy from Bob.
Spencer trying to push the candy back up the tongue...he also tried to get into the car to figure it all out. The owners let him look inside to see that it was just a car...he was really impressed by this one too!

My little kiss with Almonds!
Getting some candy from one of the kids in our youth group.More trick or treating. All in all the kids had a good time, didn't get scared, and ended up with a lot of candy!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Art

I have been getting braver and have let the kids use the crayons and color some...apparently I haven't been watching them close enough. If you look at the window behind Spencer's head you can see a sample of his handiwork! Perfect mug shot next to the scene of the crime...good thing he is cute! (I tried to get Aubrey in the picture too but she wouldn't stand still...she thinks she needs to be inches away from the camera in order to get a good picture!)

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Pumpkin Patch

We took the kids to a pumpkin patch today and had a great time. The weather was perfect and the kids had a great time just walking through all the pumpkins. They found some little ones to carry around for a bit, but ended up dropping them after too long. Spencer thought that was the game and ended up throwing his...boys!

We thought that this would be a great picture to do every year...kind of watch them grow! They are pretty close to the same height...weight is another story! :)


I tried and tried to get them to look at me, but once they saw each other they would just look and giggle back and forth...still cute though!

For some reason Aubrey wanted nothing to do with the animals this time, so I got some shots of Spencer with the animals. He must have some farmer in him because he was totally in his element today with all the farm stuff! He loved the tractor and the fields of pumpkins and corn...he even touched some of the animals!
The tractor hayride. They started out a bit scared of it, but ended up crying when it was over.

In the pumpkin patch!




Auntie Julie helped give them a lift to get to the hole...