Friday, October 30, 2015

Halloween dinner & pumpkins

We had our family halloween dinner the other night. I made spaghetti sauce,  Trevor made black pasta to make it look creepy.  We added olives with cheese stuffed inside to look like eyeballs.  Patrick made skeleton bone breadsticks.  Patrick also made two different brain jello molds. We also had some swamp juice to drink. For dessert the kids made cute gravestone cupcakes, and Savannah picked out some cute Carmel apples from a local store. After dinner we carved pumpkins. 
Trevor & Griffin had a great idea, but it sorta failed. Luckily they saved it and came up with another idea. Savannah wanted a Medusa pumpkin. It was a bit more work than anticipated,  but turned out great. Patrick was a great looking pirate. It was a fun night with the family.

Balloon Fiesta

It had been several years since we had gone to the balloon Fiesta, so I decided to take the kids during fall break. Waking up super early us never easy, but it's always worth it! We went on a special shapes morning.  Lots of beautiful balloons!

Friday, October 9, 2015

A day in the life as a parent

There are days that things happen that make us shake our heads! Today was one of them.