HaLlOwEeN 2011

We had so much fun this year! I had to work during the day and Lane had clinicals so my Mom watched the kids and Hudson loved making rootbeer with her. When Lane and I were done we got the kids are dressed and ready and took pictures and then headed to the ward "trunk or treat."

Woody and Jessie

My friend Laci made Brookie's skirt and shirt and Hudson's vest. They turned out sooo cute!!!

The ward did the trick or treating around the track so I guess technically it wasn't a "trunk or treat."

Laci and Hugo and their kids came with us. Brookie and Eva the monster!

Little man loved it!! I love the smirk on his face!

The cutest Jessie in town!

After the trunk of treat we went over to my Mom's where Lane took Brookie and Landon around to a few houses. I believe he was Optimus Prime from Transformers?

We had yummy taco soup, corn bread and homemade rootbeer. Then trying to get a picture of all the Twiggs' grandkids is a little bit of a nightmare, but this is a pretty good one.
Then over to the Pont house where we hurried at got a picture and ran out the door to do some more trick or treating!

There are some really cute houses all decorated in their neighboorhood. The bubbles were a big hit with the kids, especially Hudson. He has recently learned to say "bubble" and is quite obsessed with them. So he ran around saying, "bubble bubble bubble!!!"

I'm not quite sure what this guy is suppose to be, but we were the only ones brave enough to have our picture taken with him. Hudson isn't quite sure but he didn't have a choice since I was holding him!!

Halloween Activities

I have not had a camera, hence the reason there have been no posts! But we have a new one and are back in action! Recently I took the kids to Hee Haws, which was a lot of fun!

They had a lot of fun in the corn box!

It's so nice that Brookie is old enough to take her brother for these type of rides. I don't worry about him at all because she is such a good sister!

They have animals that you can pet and feed. Hudson wasn't really into feeding them, he was a little bit scared of them to be honest, which is funny because last time we went he was all over them.

Brookie on the other hand was all about feeding them!

Hudson going down the slide, Brookie would not go down the slide by herself, so there are no pictures of her.

They hay ride with Hannah and Hailey

We made cookies to frost, I have 2 "counter rats" as my parents would call us who have to be on the counter right next to me as I'm cooking.

We carved pumpkins and I learned I HATE it!!! It's very time consuming, the little ones can't even carve them because it's too hard, Brookie wouldn't get the "guts" out, it was too gross, she said.

So this is her sad looking pumpkin because I do not have the patience to do this. Next year we will stick to painting a face on.

Laci and Hugo totally get into carving!

Hudson's sad looking pumpkin, I made. Like I said, we won't be doing this next year!!

2nd round of Preschool

I was really hesitant this year about preschool, just because I felt like she was sooo ready for Kindergarten. She misses the deadline by 1 day!! I didn't even think I could fight it with the school but then I started wondering if I had her tested if they would have let her go. Anyways. . .I didn't and she's doing another year or preschool. It's at a different place than last year, it's at an elementary school rather than someone's house, and she LOVES it. I didn't get a very good vibe from the teacher and other parents but she has so much fun. They go to the computer lab and play on Starfall.com (which she is very familiar with), she loves going to library and reading books, and there is the playground they have played on every single day and in the winter they will have gym time. I was really worried because she wasn't coming home with any papers or anything to show me that they have been doing but the teacher keeps a lot of stuff there are the school. But slowly she is starting to bring home papers.

Here she is all ready to go!

Showing her back pack!
It's crazy what a difference a year makes! I remember taking her last year and she was really nervous, luckily she had a friend in her class which helped a ton. This year she was a little nervous just because she didn't know anyone but she went to class just fine. Next year she will walk right into Kindergarten without even looking back! She is growing up so fast!

Brooklyn is 5

This year Brookie said she wanted a Cowgirl Party!! So she got cowgirl boots and a hat and we went and took pictures to put on the invitations. Which I don't have a copy of the invitation but it was SUPER cute!! Laci Arias took these pictures.

We. . .and by we I mean, mostly Laci did a lot of work. She should be some type of party/event planner. I swear we were up till 2 a.m. every night for about 2 weeks trying to get stuff done. The party was a HUGE success, the kids loved it! I'll let the pictures do most of the talking!





My cousin made this cute cowgirl cake


This was "Panning for Gold" I found this idea on Pinterest, you mix food coloring with the rice. It's like a sand box but less messy and much prettier looking. This was a BIG hit with the little guys.

This was a target shooting set up, not such a big hit.


We had "Pin the Braid on the Cowgirl"

Birthday Girl was up first!

Here's Eva
Mia and Brookie were the closest!

I made little booklets for all the kids to color and they had activity pages.

Told ya this was a big hit. These 3 little ones were entertained for quite some time. At one point Hudson was actually sitting in the bucket!!


Pinata Pictures, yes the tongue helps her!


This is her neighbor friend, Olivia, with a MEAN face, and yes that helps as well!
Brent

Landon

Kaylie

Mia

No one broke it so I ended up opening it and scattering the candy everywhere!

We loaded the kids up in the back of the truck and drove around the corner for a BIG surprise!!! Which we didn't even need to go to the surprise, the kids thought driving in the back of the truck was sooo cool!!!

The BIG surprise is they got to ride a Horse!!! First up was the birthday girl of course!! She absolutely loved it!!

Eva
Lexi
Hudson wanted to jump over the fence!
Olivia

I was the designated driver for the little ones. I love Hudson's faces in these pictures!

Most of the kids. Back row: Eva, Olivia, Brookie who has her arm around Hudson :), Lexi

Front row:Mia, Brent, Jayden

The wind kept blowing the fire out. . .
So we just had her blow out the lighter instead! She didn't seem to care.
PRESENT TIME!!!

Laci made this!!! No pattern, she just whipped it out! This will be her Halloween costume. She will be Jessie and Hudson will be Woody.

The scooter is from Mom and Dad. She has been driving it around literally everyday!!!!

The grand finale of the night was the present that Papa made for her. I found a website online that gives you the plans to build things for free. I showed it to my Dad, he made some changes and Da-Ta! He made me paint it, which was a nightmare!! But Brookie loves it!!!

Here is the finished product, all set up in her room. I still have some work to do, I'm going to put carpet on the stairs and make some cute curtains but she LOVES it!!! Every night she is excited to go sleep in her bed!

I love her face sticking thru!!