It's time to CARVE!!

Family Dinner and Halloween Party

This month we celebrated our 10th annual Halloween Costume Party. Everyone dresses up and we play games, eat yummy food and have lots of fun!! This year G&M were in charge of dinner and they made yummy enchiladas! We also had rice, homemade rootbeer, beans and salad! It was delicious. After dinner we celebrated Papa's birthday and then we went into our halloween festivities. We played the Chicken game, it's always a big hit and a hoot to watch!! Here's how you play:

Before your guests arrive you hide candy corn all over the house...in obvious and some harder places.

You divide all your guests into groups. Each group picks a mother hen...everyone left then becomes the baby chicks. When the timer begins, we normally do it for 2-3 minutes your baby chicks search the house for candy corns with thier hands behind thier backs. Then they have to cluck as loud as they can so the mother hen can come and collect the corn for them. The team with the most candy corns in there buckets wins!!! It's quite hilarious!! Here's a video that shows the wildness!!!

Everyone's costumes were adorable!! Thanks for another fun Halloween party!!

A trip to the pumpkin patch!!

Our friends and us decided we were gonna take a trip to the pumpkin patch this year instead of just going to Winco and picking them out of a barrell. Holy cow, I now know why I don't go to the pumpkin patch every year....it's expensive!!! We went in a black hay maze, and then went and picked out pumpkins. I about had a heart attack when they weighed them and told me how much they were....$28.00 for stinkin pumpkins!!! People all around me were laughing at my reaction. If we decide to do go to the pumpkin patch again, they will be getting SMALLER pumpkins!!! But
we had a good time nonetheless. We all had a good laugh when our friend D ran face-first into a different level of the hay maze. Luckily the weather held out for us and the patch wasn't muddy!! Thanks for a fun trip to the pumpkin patch, and I think next year we'll take a trip to Winco or find a cheaper pumpkin patch!!

FHE Activity

The girls coordinated FHE this week and we painted toilet paper rolls in the spirit of Halloween!!

What a kid!!

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A candid interview with 3 of the kids!

1. What is something that Mom always says to you? " C: Clean the house." Jn: "Clean" Jh: "clean"

2. What makes Mom happy? C:"When the house is clean", Jn: "cleaning", jh:"When we do something that I don't ask, like clean-up."

3. What makes Mom sad? C: "When the house is not clean". Jn: "not listening" Jh:"when she yells at us a lot"

4. How does your Mom make you laugh? C: "When she tells me funny stuff, like jokes, I don't know", Jn: "I don't know." Jh: "ummm I don't know"

5. What was you Mom like as a child? Ce:"A person that skipped highschool cause she wrote herself notes to excuse herself" Jn:"She was like a little child" Jh,"she was short"

6. How old is your Mom? Ce "um 31" Jn: "31" Jh:"31"

7. How tall is your Mom? C: "5.5" Jn: "5 something something" Jh,: "about 5 7 or something"

8. What is her favorite thing to do with you? C probably go out and like go to dinner and have fun" Jn: "her favorite thing to do with me is go grocery shopping." Jh,"go to the store"

9. What does your Mom do when you're not around?C: "Cleans the house." Jn:"talk, that's what I practically do and she lays around" jh"I don't know"

10. If your Mom becomes famous what would it be for? C: "Being the best cook in Oregon. Jn:"money"Jh: "Umm, getting money"

11. What is your Mom really good at? Ce:"cooking", Jn:"cooking" Jh: "crafts"

12. What is your Mom not very good at? C:"ummmm what's it called...wait..skip this one." Jn:"let's see, petting dogs cause you whack them to death..lol" jh "laugh...playing the xbox"

13. What does your Mom do for her job? "C "cook" Jn: "the bar" Jh "She cooks at a bar, or a pub or at Timber, whichever one

14. What is Mom's favorite food? C:"ummmm enchiladas", Jn:"salad" Jh: "umm I'd have to say ummm fettucini alfredo

15. What makes you proud of Mom? C: "She takes care of 5 kids and still works at night and comes home at 4-5 in the morning and take care of us." Jn:"she gets us toys and clothes" Jh: "she works at the pub"

16. If your Mom was a cartoon character who would she be? C: "Minnie" Jn:"Velma" Jh: " um I'd have to say Patrick"

17. What do you and your Mom do together? C: "we do crafts" Jn:"nothing" whatever!! Jh: "um practically go to the store"

18. How are you and your Mom the same? C: "we both like to do crafts." Jn:"we both have brown eyes(mine are actually hazel) Jh" We both have like brown eyes"

19. How are you and your Mom different? C:"She would rather have the house clean and I would rather have it part way clean" Jn: "you're taller than me." Jh: you are bigger than me"

20. How do you know your Mom loves you? C:"Because she comes home everyday and takes care of us" Jn: "she buys us toys" Jh" because um...because ummm...she comes on field trips with us"


This was fun to do. Do you think they hear me telling them to clean OFTEN!! I hate having a cluttered house!! LOL I tag anybody who would love to sit down and interview their child. Let me know on my comments if you plan on joining in the fun. I would love to read them.

Game Night!!

For FHE we went over to our friends the Bs. We made nachos for dinner, caramel popcorn for dessert and played a game. We played Settlers of Catan with them. It was the first time that they had played it and they seemed to enjoy it. Next time it's Ticket to Ride!! Thanks for a fun evening!!

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

Monday I was able to attend a fieldtrip with both boys to the pumpkin patch. We had a great time. This is Jh, and Jn with one of thier classmates. they were the kids in my group. Here they are posing by the hay maze. Luckily the weather held out for us and it wasn't a muddy trip to the pumpkin patch!!
This is the boys on the hay ride to the pumpkin patch!
picking out the right pumpkin!!
Playin with the pigs, Daisy and May
Looking at the sheep!

The cake I made

I know I posted back in August about a cake I made for someone that comes into the pub. Now if you have kids in the room you may not want them to see...so I will leave some space for you to scroll down!! It's worth seeing though!! I promise!!!

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