Monday, December 3, 2012

Fall Fun 2012

 Fall is one of our favorite times of the year. Not only do we have 3 birthdays but lots of other fall activities. Two miles from our house is Shuckles Corn maze where there were lots of things to bounce on...
 face painting...
 and hayriding...
 The neighbors threw a halloween party for the kids this year and Kaleb got to bob for apples for the first time.  All the boys were really getting into it.
 Kaleb with the neighborhood boys...
 Go, Granddad, Go!
 Hiding in the corn maze. It was sooo cold that day we had to retreat to the corn maze to shield us from the wind.
 At the corn maze there was this gigantic slide that used sleds. You FLEW down them. Kaleb must have ridden it about 50 times.
 Our pumpkins. Kaleb designed the one on the right all by himself.
 And now...to pick out just the right halloween costume...Elmo and a dragon??
 Uh, No! Batman and Ironman???
 Uh, no! Yoda and Darth Vader it is!  The boys together with Flash. We went to a neighborhood halloween party for dinner and then went trick or treating with friends.
 "May the Force by with you!"
We also went to "Boo at the Zoo" where we went trick or treating a couple weeks before halloween. There were also bounce houses, a haunted hayride, haunted carousel and dance floor. Darth Vader was busting some major moves to the Monster Mash. Wow, I'm tired just writing about all of it!

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Chase's 2nd Birthday

 Well, don't most 2 year olds eat breakfast with their marshmellow gun?
 On Oct. 27th you have to carve your pumpkins. Some morning birthday fun.
 We invited some neighbors over for an "impromptu" party to share some cake with us. All of our family was coming in the next weekend for Kaleb's big party so we celebrated Chase's birthday the next weekend too.
 Chase was very excited and ready to open his presents.
 Chase loves spider man and it was a fun and pretty easy cake to make.
 Chase just fits right in with the big kids in the neighborhood.

This is after the party...I imagine Chase was sitting there in his diaper looking around at the wrecked room thinking "Wow, that was some party!"
Kaleb gave Chase this yellow motorized car for his birthday which was Chase's favorite...it also happened to be Kaleb...they fought over it for a whole week.  We kept saying..."Kaleb, it's Chase's car and you can take your birthday money a get one for yourself in a week". Now, as I am writing this blog a month later, neither of them play with the car...Arhhh!