Trick or Treat

Our cute little treats had so much fun at the Halloween party at our church.

Midge was a pirate. Everyone thought the parrot on her shoulder was real.

When Leo went to school on the Halloween Celebration day he told Midge he was going to tell his friends that he was a touché man. Midge told him he couldn't tell everyone that. She said that he needed to say he was a musketeer. When he got home from school she asked him if he had correctly told everyone what his costume was. He proudly looked at her and replied, "Yep I told everyone I was a mouseketeer." When Little Miss saw Leo in his costume she told him, "You look so handsome will you marry me?" He rolled his eyes and sighed and said, "Yes I guess so."

Little Miss was Cinderella. She had a necklace that when she pressed it said, "Hello my name is Cinderella." She would play it at every car we went to.

Baby Huck was a penguin. The kids said that it was appropriate because like a penguin that regurgitates its food baby Huck is consistently spitting up. So whenever he spit up they would yell out, "Look he is regurgitating." He was barely able to fit into the costume another week and we wouldn't have been able to squeeze him in.

Today we carved the pumpkins. Huck got a baby pumpkin with a new tooth to match his first tooth. Little Miss got Snoopy, Leo wanted a spider, Midge drew Calvin and a happy face on her homegrown pumpkin.

Ken's Birthday

This past week was Ken's birthday. I had to attend a conference for work in Portland so I missed his big day. Instead we decided to celebrate before I left. My mom and Huck were able to go to the conference with me. We stayed an extra day and had a lot of fun playing around Portland.

Ken loves bananas so I decided to invent a banana split cupcake. I used this recipe, and then played around with the toppings. The kids had fun helping me.

For his birthday Midge used her artistic skills and drew portraits of the family. She has turned in to quite the artist. She gave Ken all of her favorite drawings.

Leo made Ken a card where he made hearts and he wrote all of the things

he loved about his dad.

Halloween Party

This year Midge said that she wanted to throw a Halloween Party. I do a birthday party per kid per year. Throwing extra parties is simply too much work. Yet Midge was insistent she wanted to do all of the work. To be honest I kind of thought she would forget about it. To my surprise she did it all. Each weekend for several weeks in advance she made decorations and planned out the activities.

She had the guests do a scavenger hunt.

She also had the students do a matching game and she gave out prizes.

Leo and Midge did the decorations and worked really hard.

They filled the driveway with Halloween messages.

For a treat she had the kids make Oreo spider cookies.

After the party was over she told us the whole thing was a lot of work, but we were so impressed with what a great job she did.

Apple Orchard

I seem to be a week behind in postings. Last weekend we went to Detering Orchard in Harrisburg. We love to go there. They have fun activities for the kids, free apple pie, ice cream, and the most amazing apple cider.

The kids love the maze.

We brought along the kids best buddy (otherwise known as their other brother).

Baby Huck loved the apple pie and ice cream. He cried when we ran out.

The farm lets the kids pick out a baby pumpkin to take home.

They also give a tractor ride through the orchard.

We had to get some photos of baby Huck by the pumpkins.

When we got back Ken took the older kids running. They found these big sticks at the park. When they got back Ken made the kids bows and arrows. The kids have had a blast launching arrows. They actually can shot them pretty far. Ken tried shooting it and launched an arrow over our back fence, past the creek and nearly into the yard of the homes opposite of us.