Halloween 2008

Tonight was Halloween. Elena dressed up as Jasmine (one of the Disney Princesses for those of you out of the loop) and Landon was an army man. This was the only thing we could find to even come close to fitting his little butt. I wasn't going to dress Landon up at first and then I started feeling bad so I ran out at the last minute and bought him a costume. Here are some pictures of them all dressed up. We all met at Tina's house at about sunset. We all loaded up into the trailer and went on a hayride. The kids had a ball. Everytime we would get back in the hayride after a stop, Elena would start eating 90 miles an hour. She looked like a little rat. Open, eat, open eat. I bet she ate half of the candy just on the hayride. Afterwards, we went back to Tina's house and had a bonfire with hotdogs and all kinds of stuff. The kids were so wired on candy that they just ran around to warm up. Elena crashed when we got home because she was just exhausted. We had fun and they already can't wait for next year.

Our First Halloween Pumpkin

Barrett and Elena went to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday. They went to get our first pumpkins to carve. Elena picked out one pumpkin for her and one for Landon. She picked out a GIANT pumpkin for her; one almost as big as her, and then she picks a teeny tiny one for Landon. She had so much fun carving her pumpkin last night. She had no problem putting her arms and head in the pumpkin to clean it out. After it was done, we took some pictures. We put it on the picnic table on the porch and we faced the pumpkin in towards the house. All night last night she would go to the window to check it out. We kept the lights off most of the night so she could really look at it. Her and her daddy did a good job on our first pumpkin. We ended up painting Landon's pumpkin since it was too small to carve. We painted it white last night and tonight we will paint a black face on it.

Ship Island

We went to Ship Island this weekend. It was really nice. The weather was great for this. It was nice and cool and a little breezy. A perfect day for a boat ride and the beach. The kids loved going. It was like practically having the beach to yourself. The kids got to explore and go all over. We didn't have to worry about people or highways. We brought a picnic lunch with us so after a little morning exploring, we sat and had lunch on the beach. Grandpa took a nap after that although he swears he didn't. Here is the picture to prove it though. Anthony built sand castles and I took the girls down the beach to find seashells. There were shipping boats off the coast and the kids just thought it was so great that we were on an island and pirate ships were there too.

Ashleigh kept eating sand. I don't know what she thought it was but she would just put loads of it in her mouth. Elena, Ashleigh and Anthony all got burned. I guess because it was breezy we took advantage and didn't slather them up with sunscreen. None of them are complaining about it though which just proves that kids are tougher than adults. I would have already been whining.

Anyway, this was a fun day and hopefully we will do it again.