Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The great pumpkin carving of 2013

This past weekend we carved pumpkins. We each had one this year. We just usually let the kids do it, but this year we got all of our pumpkins free! So why not!




Let the carving begin! Travis started on Zachary's first.



Madison started.........


And this was her reaction! Hilarious! She has never been a fan. But this year she did it all!


This apparently was his favorite part!


Zach chose a cyclopes with toothpick teeth!!


The one on the left is Madison's, it's a headless guy. Mine is the other one. 


Travis attempted an Oregon 'O' not bad for a first attempt!



Brynley chose a kitty! She was very proud of it and kept meowing at it!

It was a pretty fun afternoon that ended with Oregon beating UCLA!
More costume pictures to come.  


Monday, October 7, 2013

End of Summer into Fall = blog lazy!

Well now that summer is officially over, and we are 7 ish weeks into school. I thought I should post something about the goings on in the family!!

Madison did a symbols of Idaho project at school a few weeks ago. And she chose a Peregrine Falcon. 



For a while, and she probably still is obsessed with these birds! They are pretty cool, and have some cool features! We used a Dr. Pepper bottle! She traced and cut out all the feathers. I glued the beak and head so it would be ready to paint when she got home. I was simply the glue gun operator! She decided the pattern of the feathers by looking at a picture we found on Google! We got the grade back last week and surprise, A+ 100% 

moving on.......


We took the kids to their first drive in movie! We have lived here 7 1/2 years and have never been. So I found a great coupon and the kids were so excited! The movies were "Disney's Planes," and "White House Down." We only stayed for the first one because Madison and Zach would have never fallen asleep! Brynley did great! 


And....................


Brynley and I went to Linder Farms with a group of moms and kids. It was sooooo cold. It was like 50 but the wind chill had to have been 30! She is wearing 3 layers in this picture with my gloves on!!


While we were waiting for our hay ride. The kids got to play in the corn box!! She loved it! It was probably 3 ft deep of dried corn kernels!


She had a hard time finding the perfect pumpkin! First she chose this little one. Then she decided on this one...


A little bigger but just as cute to her! She kept saying how cute the "cupins" were and how she loved her "cupin!" We have tried correcting the "cupin" but she insists on calling them that! Too cute!

We had a fun time and were happy to get back in the warm car!!

Happy Fall!