My mom's school was hosting a fun Halloween Carnival and we had a blast. We did bouncy houses, train rides and swings. There was also a scary haunted house(with pooh bear) and lots of yummy treats. The boys dressed up and all looked so cute! We played long into the night and had a really good time.

Jude has gotten big enough that he knows has chores. This is one of them. I plop him up on the counter and it is his job to put away the dishes. I hand him a dish and he finds it's spot. And he does every single dish and utensil in there. He really likes it and thinks it is fun and will even get upset if he sees someone putting away the dishes. What a responsible young cutie pie.

Fun fun day! There was a day at the farm type activity that we took the families to. We got to go into a petting zoo to see goats, bunnies and chickens. We got to do face painting, and horse painting. That's right, horse painting.It is supposed to be some type of theraputic thing but they let all the kids dip their hands in paint and make hand prints on these horses. Very strange but the kids got a big kick out of it. Alice was not even kind of scared of the animals, she just ploppd herself in the middle of them so she could be part of the action. One of the horses loved Jude's hair and tried to get a bite of it. Everyone had a really good time. Well...except for Derek. But that is good enough to be another post.

Oh my. Oh my, oh my, oh my. Not good, not good at all. So Derek is really allergic to hay. I have always known that but I never understood it, that is until Derek came home from our little at the farm shin dig and looked like this!! His eyes were red and pussing and his whole face looked like a puffer fish. I felt so bad and guilty for taking him to the farm but I have never seen anything like this. He never even touched the hay, he didn't even get near it! I'd hate to think what his face would look like if he had. I never knew that Hay was so airborne. Goodness gracious! Note to self, no hay! EVER!!! This first picture is about 15 minutes after we got home. About 2 hours later
Before going to bed

And waking up the next morning.

Gaint bugs part two!!!! Look at the size of this grasshopper! It's as big as that tree!
Ok not really but it is still pretty big. And Jude was so excited to see the "Grasspopper" as he put it. I think I might like grasspopper even better.

Our nephew Dexter LOVES the color blue. It is his most favorite! So his crafty mom decided to let him be a blue crayon for halloween. She even went out and bought blue spray hair dye. Dexter was in high heaven and when Jude and Oliver saw how cool he looked they needed to have blue hair to. These are some slammin' blue haired boys!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICE!!!!!!!!

My beautiful little girl is now a year old! I couldn't believe how much she has grown!! We of course had a shin dig to celebrate this day and we had a really good time. I decorated with pink and purple streamers everywhere, Angie and I made tie dye cupcakes that we let the kids decorate, and we also did a balloon popping game. The kids did really good and we all had a great time.

Then Alice got to open her presents and they were great!! She is a spolied little primma donna that is for sure. We did a little "fortune" game where she gets to pick from an aaortment of things and it tells her "future" well she picked the things that have to do with technology and athletics. hmmm....... Maybe she is going to grow up and build robots!!!!When it came time to eat the cake Alice was so dainty! She must not have wanted to ruin her party dress.