Erie Winter is Here!

So yesterday we woke up to snow everywhere. My boys were very excited by this, me not so much. Skip was excited because this meant he could finally try out his new snow blower machine. Casen was dying to make a snow man, or at least go drive trucks through the snow. Jace just looked out the window in amazement.

When Skip got home from school he bundled the little boys and himself up. They went outside and snowplowed the drive way and the side walks. Casen and Jace just loved playing in the snow.

*I would have gotten pictures outside but it was already pretty dark out, that is the problem with the sun setting so early.

Happy Halloween!!!

Our family had a great Halloween. As you can see Casen had to be a Transformer. This was very fitting for him because he is pretty much obsessed with Transformers. Jace got to be a bat for Halloween. I picked his costume out and was mostly looking for something warm for him, so he would not freeze during trick or treating.
Halloween started out in the morning by us going to Casen's costume parade at school. It was a lot of fun to see all of the kids dressed up. They were so excited for the parade, class parties, and then the trick or treating that would be that night. I am sure the teachers needed a lot of energy that day to control all of the excitement.
On the night of Halloween we had a bunch of friends come over for dinner and trick or treating. The girls all stayed at my house and visited, handed out candy, etc. Well all of the dads took the kids out trick or treating......Did we plan that good or what? Halloween was a ton of fun!

Halloween Activities

We have been having so much fun with all of the Halloween activities we have been doing. Here are some pictures of a couple of the things we did. I must admit I do not have a lot of pictures because I have not been taking pictures like I should (self note: Be Better).

Here are a couple of pictures of the kids trick or treating at the mall. They had a lot of fun here because this was the first trick or treating they got to do (about a week before Halloween).....Lets just say they are NATURALS!!

We also had a ward Halloween party two days before Halloween. This was so much fun. At this party there were a ton of activities for the kids to do. One of which was a doughnut eating contest....as you can see we could not watch for long before we had to join in on the fun as well. I actually did not have my camera with me at the party (horrible) so I do not have any pictures of the kids, I had to steel these pictures from a friend, thanks Laura.