Trick or Treating

"Anakin" Sam(8), "Princess Alexis" Lucy(5), "Indiana Jones" Max(9)

Gabrielle and Lulu

Happy Halloween! We met up with a big group of our friends at St.Paul to go "trick or treating" again this year. There were about 35 people in our group including adults. (I am sure people loved seeing us coming up to the door.) My kids love trick or treating in this neighborhood because there is one house that gives out King Sized Hershey Bars. It is amazing how excited they all get about that! We lucked out with the weather this year. It was definitely cold, but we had no rain at all! Whenever people asked Lucy what she was for Halloween she would say "Barbie and the Diamond Castle" then Pancho would say "Isn't it Castle Superstore Barbie?" The adults would all crack up and Lucy would get so mad at him for saying it wrong! We probably went to about 50 houses that night. The kids got way too much candy and had way too much fun!

Popeye, Indiana Jones, Soccer player, Mummy, Anakin & Storm Trooper

Cade, Max, Will, Ben, Sam & Ethan


That's a lot of Trick-or-Treaters



One of the houses was all decked out as a haunted house. Max and Sam Loved all of the "scary dudes" walking around. They do not get scared easily!

Carving Pumpkins

Ever heard of putting a wig on your pumpkin?

Some of us just go through life doing things a little differently.

Sam likes to think outside the box and I love that about him!

Did we really let him use that huge carving knife?


I always think carving pumpkins is so much fun. I love the smell and I love how it just makes you know that Fall is really here. We always start by drawing out our plan on the pumpkin with a permanent marker. Then Pancho and I carve it out on the lines (sort of). This year we had some real creativity going on. There is a little part of me that wants to have 5 perfect little pumpkins sitting on our front porch, but then I see how much thought and creativity they put into it and I have to love how fun and different my three kids are.

The finished product!

The Pumkin Patch

Lucy with the perfect pumpkin!
I went with Lucy's preschool class to the pumpkin patch. We took a hay ride out to the field where all of the pumpkins were. It was so much fun to watch all of these adorable 4 year olds taking their first hay ride. They were so excited and everything was so new to them! It got even more exciting for them when they were let loose to run all over looking for the perfect pumpkin.

Ethan, Lucy, Lauren & Allie

Lucy's best friend at school is Christy's son Ethan. Their teacher says that they are absolutely inseparable at school. Lucy and Ethan roamed the whole field checking out about 50 pumpkins until they finally settled on the perfect ones. Did I mention that they have the best teacher ever? I absolutely LOVE their teacher Mrs. Demers. She was Max's preschool teacher too! She is so great with the kids and Lucy just loves going to school everyday to see Mrs. Demers. Lucy's class is so cute and it will be fun to watch her grow up with this great group of kids.

Good Friends - Ethan, Lucy and Anora

Lucy's awesome teacher Mrs. Demers and Lulu

The whole preschool class on the hay ride at Lone Pine

Sam's 8th Birthday & Lucy's 5th Birthday

Max putting a candle on his sister's cupcake

Ellie with Sam blowing out his candles

Sam's Birthday is November 15th, and Lucy's Birthday is October 15th. Not only are they brother and sister, but they are best buds as well! Lucy absolutely adores her big brother and she follows him around and pretty much plays whatever he wants, as long as he will let her hang around. When I started asking Sam what he wanted to do for his Birthday Party, he said "I want to go to Putters and I want to invite the McCarthy's, the Meter's, the Dacars, the Hakalas, the Ficeks . . ." Then I would ask Lucy what she wanted to do for her Birthday, she would say "I want to go to Putters and I want to invite the Hakalas, the Ficeks, the Dacars, the Meters, the McCarthy's . . ." So finally I said, "I have a great idea how about if you guys have your birthday parties together!" To my suprise they both said YEEESSS!!!

Grammy's cupcakes

Wow! How did I luck out? Two birthday parties for the price, time & effort of one! This will probably be the only year I will be able to get away with this, so I jumped at the opportunity. I got Star Wars plates for the boys and Barbie Diamond Castle plates for the girls. Mom made the most delicious home-made cupcakes for everyone. Putters is a fun place to go because they have an indoor playground, putt putt golf, video games, lazer tag and Pizza of course! The kids had a blast playing and the adults had a good time chatting and eating. It was a fun time to get caught up with everyone.

"I'm 5 now and this is my friend Lauren!"

"We Love Star Wars and Legos" - Lucas and Sam

The "-rents"
(thats short for "parents" in case you didn't know)

Grammy & Papa - We love em!

Christy, Liz, Amy, Leticia, Chelsea & Me