HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Well, Halloween's all done. What a fun holiday we had at our house. Now that the kids are getting older and starting to realize what the holidays are all about, we are really having fun watching them get into each of them.

I'm posting all of the pictures from trick-or-treating last night and from Zach's Classroom Halloween Party at school.

Zach's teacher was nice enough to let us come and watch Zach's class during their halloween parade. It was so much fun! When we came in, they were all dressed up and sitting on their tables, they were so cute! Here's our little fireman!
















And we had to get a picture with Zach and his teacher, Mrs. Paxman, that was dressed up as a cowgirl. Zach was excited to tell us that her horse's name was Rusty. She is so great with the kids and we are so lucky that Zach has such a great teacher!



We were also able to snap a quick picture of Zach and Hailey together. Hailey just loves her brother and wants to be just like him. Which means she absolutely loves it when we go to his class, she thinks she should be sitting right there beside him every day.



While Zach was off marching through the classrooms, Hailey found a beanbag and a Barney book. She was so excited to sit and read "just like Zachary" she said.



Later that night, we took the kids trick-or-treating. Last year they weren't much into it, but this year they really caught the purpose and were off running to each door to trick-or-treat and get more candy. We actually made it to every house in the neighborhood. Zach was ready to head back by that time, but little Miss. Sugartooth could have gone on forever - especially since she was getting sugar. I didn't get any pictures of the trick-or-treating like I planned since it was sprinkling the whole time, but I did get a few of them going through their buckets once we got home. They were so excited about all the fun things they got.
















WE ALL HAD SO MUCH FUN!

My Little Fireman

The last few weeks, Zach's school has had a few visits from our community helpers. The first visit was from a Lehi City Policeman - even better for us, it was the officer that is in our ward and lives just down the road from us. He showed them all of his tools and equipment and even let them climb in his police car and push buttons. Zach was thrilled that he was able to turn on and off the siren a few times.

Last Friday, the school had the fire department come out. They showed the kids their equipment and even dressed up Zach's teacher in their fire clothes and oxygen tank. They were even shown all of the fun and interesting things one the fire truck. Luckily for me, Friday was the day I was helping out in Zach's classroom and I was able to be there for the fire truck part of the presentation. When I left and was walking across the parking lot to the school, I could still here the oohs and aahs of the kids as they were shown different things.

After their presentation, the kids went back to their classrooms and Zach's class made fire hats - just like the firefighters had. He was so excited to come home and show Hailey and I. He was so cute, I had to snap a few pictures.



He had to do a silly face picture too!



I just love having him to go kindergarten (although it's been hard to realize he's growing up) because the teachers and school do so many fun and creative things for them. He loves it and looks forward to kindergarten every day!

Octoberfest!

October is a very busy month for us. Between all of the birthdays, anniversary, fall things to do, and halloween - we are more than busy having fun. My mom likes to get all of the grandkids together - sometimes at different times - but more than often together to do a bunch of fun things. This year, we had to split it up a bit, but we had a couple of fun full days of activities for the kids.

The first thing we did was take the kids to the pumpkin patch. Nothing beats watching the kids run through the pumpkin fields looking for that perfect pumpkin!


























And of course, we had to take some pictures with the scarecrows and the cutouts.












And what trip to the pumpkin patch would be complete without a couple of runs through the little corn maze?















Having way too much fun!



After we decided we'd had enough fun at the pumpkin patch, we headed back to Nana and Papa's for some fun decorating! We:

1. Decorated cookies,




2. Decorated gourds,




3. And then painted our pumpkins - of course blue for Zach's and pink for Haileys!


























And if that wasn't enough fun for one day, we had a birthday party for our cousin Ashton and then we got in our costumes and trick-or-treated! Nana and Papa always like to see the kids in their costumes, so we get all dressed up and then trick-or-treat members of the family in the different rooms of their house. The kids have so much fun!

Our firefighter and beautiful princess!






Trick-or-treating!
















What a fun day we had!