Monday, October 26, 2009

Good Bye for now Fall

Sounds like tomorrow we welcome winter... Not ready! Hopefully we will see Fall again - but if not... Farewell!



Sunday, October 25, 2009

The VAMPIRE ball

As always, my moms annual Halloween party was the BEST!! This year she had the "VAMPIRE BALL". She got this great old barn, and decorated it to the T. She even had our haunted dinner figured out without a kitchen! Everything we ate was red. Spaghetti, Chili, Salad with Thousand Island dressing, red jello salad, and red punch! Everyone brought yummy appetizers to share... My favorite were the bat wings! After dinner we had a little ZUMBA. The kids decorated spiders, and played 31. Every year she says she can't do it anymore, but I'm just going to keep hoping she does, because WE LOVE IT!






The whole Gang, Minus Trent Family and Chris and Nick... Chris and Nick were sick, so had to miss out on all the fun.


The Boys...


The girls... We are WAY out numbered!


Porter and Jordan being way too cool to dance!




W.I.T.C.H.



WOMEN IN TOTAL CONTROL HERE!


My good Friend Tonia had another witch party this week, and again, it was so much fun! It is so fun to see all of our neighbors and friends dressed up as witches! We eat lots of great food, see so much cute Halloween decor, and laugh all night with the girls. This year Marla, Kriste, and I decided to put together matching outfits. Marla and Kriste worked us up the cutest witch costumes - EVER -. They ordered us pettiskirts off the Internet, and found the perfect hats in Las Vegas. And, my favorite part of the costumes were the shoes... Marla went to town with the glitter. What do you get when you add a can of glitter and Marla? FABULOUS! It's so great to have creative friends.



My boys always want a piece of the action...


Notice the Bears Jersey in this picture... I think we are going to be seeing a lot of it! Danny gave it to him for his birthday, and he has been wearing it ever since!


My mom made these awesome witch shoes for me to give to the party hosts to say thank you! They LOVED them.



Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Porter's 6th Bday Pictures













Taking pictures of Porter is getting really FUN!! He hates it, but can really work it for the camera when he is "ON". I loved this shoot!

SIX??


I can't believe my Porter is 6. Time flies when you are having a good time, and life with Porter is always a good time... Well almost always. With that said, I'll start by saying that shots and Porter don't get along very well. Since I'm such a nice Mom and wanted him to enjoy his birthday fully, I decided we should take him and the other two boys to get the H1N1 shot this morning. Bad idea. That kid can throw the biggest fit ever! He had two nurses holding him down, and he was SCREAMING and KICKING them. It was so humiliating. When he gets worked up he has a hard time breathing. There were a couple of medics on duty that came rushing over to HELP us, making the whole situation even worse. He continued to scream the entire way home, telling me that this was the worst Birthday ever. (a little side note: Trace smiled at me while they were giving it to him, like he liked it. Broc cried a tiny little cry and then was fine.) You probably are wondering why I have no sympathy for my son... well, I am willing to bet if you were there you would have been just as furious as I was! And as if that wasn't enough... Turns out we were on channel 2 news this afternoon. (I don't think they showed any of Porters Craziness - THANK YOU channel 2 for cutting that out!)

Luckily for me, He does have a great side too. As soon as he chilled out he was my little Porter again for the rest of the day.

Parties started for Porter on Sunday with the Family over for dinner. Porter wanted to have a pumpkin carving contest, so everyone brought a pumpkin to carve. Porter did most of his by himself this year, with just a little help from uncle Shawn. Trace even had fun with the carving knife helping uncle Dusty carve.


After carving we opened presents. Everyone always spoils my kids, and this year Porter got everything he has been wanting.
We got Porter a Nintendo DS... He found it a few weeks ago while looking in my cupboards for batteries. It went down like this:

Porter: I didn't know we had a DS!! Can I play it.
Me: Uh, that is your friends...
Porter: What? (looking at me like I was crazy)
Me: Well, actually that was yours for your birthday, but now I'm going to have to find you something else, and take that back.
Porter: NO... I will forget all about, I Promise!
Me: Forget what?
Porter: (thinking about it for a min.) Traces Leapster.

As you can tell by the look on his face, he is a pretty good little actor!



Porter's Masterpiece...

Trace's Masterpiece...

Chad's Masterpiece... and Porters winning Pumpkin. (Everyone said that Porter was biased, but it really was a cool pumpkin!)

Today, (AFTER "THE SHOT") we had a party with all Porters friends. He wanted to go to Scary Hill and miniature golf, so that is exactly what we did. The kids were so cute, and Porter had a ton of fun!








Halloween Hoot

Tiff had the funnest carnival for the kids this past weekend. Talk about over the top!! I loved being there, and seeing all of her fun ideas. The kids made spiders, decorated "creep cakes", fished, bobbed for apples, made masks, drank homemade rootbeer, and played tic tac toe with pumpkins and gords!!






Trace's Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

Trace's preschool went on the same field trip as Porters did last year! It was so fun, and this time Porter got to come with Trace! It ended up to be great weather, and all three of the boys had a blast. There are so many fun things to do... Besides learning about the farm, we also played on big slides, rode a train, went threw a small corn maze, and played on the tires.