Maddie's School Halloween party

Friday was crazy hair day at Maddie's school, so we went pink.-

So I finished my 5 hours of preschool Halloween at 2:30 and then headed straight to Maddie's school to help with her party for the next hour. It's always fun to see Maddie with all her friends in her class.

welcome to second grade games-I love how they are chanting 'Maddie, Maddie'-

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Preschool Halloween

First Garen had a Halloween party at his "far away preschool" (that's what Garen calls it cuz it's not at our house). His party was on Wednesday but I couldn't go help because I was teaching my morning class. For some reason he did not have fun or at least he said he didn't and he wouldn't tell me about anything they did.
And and my preschool we had a whole week of Halloween crafts, sorting colored candy, playing in slime, etc..


Then Friday was the big Halloween party. Garen was excited to show his friend his Luigi costume and to see them in their costumes. We had a fun time playing games, decorating cupcakes, playing Halloween bingo, graphing M&M's, and making trick-or-treat bags. With about an hour left of preschool Garen was complaining about a stomach ache and was just laying on the floor. Luckily Andy was home so I just had him come down and get him and sure enough a bit later, Garen threw up-poor kid! The flu has been going around and Garen tends to catch everything! So he missed out on the homemade root beer and Carmel apples and some games.
Here's Garen's class (minus one, who was also home throwing up)-

making trick-or-treat bags-

Garen after preschool and after getting sick-

And this is my morning preschool-

Kid Discovery Day

I think we had to much Halloween this year! So many parties, so be prepared for the next several posts to be about different Halloween parties.


The child development center that Garen goes to puts on a big kid discovery day. I took the kids into the chaos; and even though I almost lost Sophie several times and Garen about pulled my pants off trying to hide behind me, it was a lot of fun. They got to do bubbles, crafts, play with magnets, play in fake snow, play with the therapy dog (not Garen), see all the firefighters, play with slime, eat pizza and big pretzels, Sophie loved the musical instrument station, and Garen got to see all his teachers there.

My camera batteries died so I used my phone-it doesn't take that great of pictures.

Sophie loved this snake! she was climbing on the table and putting her face by it and petting it. I assumed it was harmless since the guy was letting her do it, but when I asked if it bites he said he's usually pretty nice. yikes!

Maddie taking a ride on the therapy swing-

the girls loved this dog!-

Miss/match day at school

Carving Pumpkins

We enjoyed an evening of Halloween music and messy pumpkin guts-

Garen making a creep face-

Sophie loved scooping all the seeds out and then she picked out her own stencil and was very excited to see her pumpkin lit up.

still some in there?-

We got he kids pumpkins done and ran into bedtime so we'll get to the other pumpkin later-

2nd grade school picture

Carmel Apples

Where's Sophie? Oh, just behind that giant Carmel apple! The kids had a blast making these tonight-

this is how you bite a huge apple when you are missing your two front teeth-

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Grandma Sue visits and little fairies...

My mom was here this week, if you can't tell by all the beautiful fairy pictures she took. It was so fun and helpful to have her here! In a week my dad starts his calling as the first counselor in the Twin Falls temple presidency, which means my parents will be spending most of their weeks at the temple making it more difficult to come out and visit. So I am so glad my mom could make it before they get even busier.
While she was her she made it to Zumba class with me, babysat the kids while Andy and I went to Garen's first IEP meeting,and while I held all my preschool parent/teacher conferences, and while Andy and I went to the couples Halloween party. My mom made my costume, did our laundry and dishes and of course took pictures. We miss her already!

The kids are getting very excited for Halloween!

Girl Scout Volleyball

We did volleyball for Girl Scouts this week. Most of the girls had never attempted the sport of volleyball before, bu they did pretty good, including Maddie. It was a lot of fun and a bit crazy with all 15 girls there!

Halloween Party

Andy and I went to the Hunter's Halloween party Friday night. I was so glad my mom was here to help me create a costume and to watch our kids so we could go out. It was a ton of fun with a real palm reader and a DJ and tons of yummy food.
We had to introduce ourselves at the party as our characters and Andy stood up and said, "I am...More uncomfortable than I have ever been in my life" He was a good sport, he even danced for a second when they dedicated the 'Walk like an Egyptian' song to us.

Bike Ride

We piled our bikes in the back of the van tonight and headed to the Green River loop. It was such a beautiful evening and we enjoyed our 6 mile bike ride.

taking a quick break-

We saw tons of geese, deer and rabbits-


Maddie had her last soccer game today and was given a gift card for Coldstone. So we ended our evening with some yummy ice cream.