Parker's Spook Parade

This is Parker's first year attending Stoddard Elementary and so it was also his first Spook Parade at the school. Paige, Paxten and I arrived a few minutes before the parade was to start and got one of the last seats in the gym. After waiting for 30 minutes and still no sign of the "spooky" kids, I was beginning to wonder if it was going to happen. Then in walked the Principal, Mr. Wilson. Follwed by Parker's wonderful teacher Mrs. Hunt. Parker is number 6 in his class so he was right at the front of the line. He was very excited to see us there and to be wearing his costume, a Clone Wars guys, complete with a light saber. (Can you tell I am not a Star Wars fan, I don't even really know what he was!) It was an easy costume for him to put on all by himself at school, because they did not allow the kids wo wear their costumes to school in the morning, they had to put them on after lunch before the Spook Parade and class parties. Parker also took as a treat to his class a bag of Pumpkin Poop (Cheese Balls) to share with his classmates. I think he had a fun day at school celebrating Halloween.

Little Red Riding Hood

My mom found an adorable Little Red Riding Hood costume at a store one day when she was out and about and called me to see if Paige had decided what she was going to be for Halloween. Well she had talked about being a princess, just like every other year, and I was able to convince her how adorable this new costume would be. I told her it was red and while and that it had a red cape. After I said it had a cape she was all for it. When grandma brought it over, Paige was so excited and had to try it on. In fact one day she wore it most of the day to "make sure it fit!" Well yesterday she finally got the opportunity to wear it outside and to show other people. It was her preschool's Halloween Party and she was the inly one dressed as Little Red Riding Hood and she was adorable. There were several other "Princesses" and so I think she was glad that she went with something different. We even put together a basket with a napkin and cake in it to go along with the story. She had a fun time and was excited about the treats she came home with.

Now both her and Paxten have been fighting fevers all night long and we are hoping they feel well enough later to go see Parker in his school's Spook Parade and to do a little trick or treating later tonight. We are all so excited about Halloween and then Parker's birthday tomorrow. So we have a busy week this week!

Halloween

So I am almost a week late in posting this but I figured it is better late than never. We had our ward Halloween party last Friday so the kids got to dress up in their costumes to go to the little carnival they had planned. Parker was Bumblebee Transformer and Paige was supposed to be a cute little lady bug, but she wouldn't keep her costume on for any length of time. Right after I put it on her she was having a fit trying to get it off. I didn't want to be fighting her about it the entire night so I took it off and improvised with what I had at home. I put on a little tutu, some makeup and some earrings and called it good. So she was a ballerina/princess/cute girl what ever you want to call it. Parker on the other hand loved loved loved his costume and had worn it several times and I am sure he will be wearing it until it wears out. We can't wear masks in the church building so I painted his face and was pretty pleased with how it turned out. I can't believe he was able to hold still for that long for me to do it. It was only about 10 minutes but to him it seemed like forever. Matt had to work that day and met us over there after he was finished and so was the party. So much for the family fun night! We had a good time anyways and the kids got plenty of candy. Enough for me to make the decision to NOT take the kids trick or treating on Halloween. Isn't that bad of me? I figured they are still small enough to not know the difference and I didn't want to have to dress them up again and carry them door to door just to get more junk food. And we had decided to celebrate a certain boys birthday so I didn't want to cram too much into one night. The kids will never know the difference. I just don't know how many more years I will be able to pull that off!



This is a little girl in our ward that Paige just loves, they are good friends and hug every time they see each other! It is so cute!

Halloween Carnival

Our ward had a little Halloween carnival last night and I would have to say that it was a big success. Ususally our ward does their own version of trunk or treat and it usually ends up with people lining the walls of the cultural hall handing out candy. So the kids ends up just walking around in a big circle with their bags wide open and the hardly even have to say anything. It usually lasts about 15 minutes and then it's over. BORING!!!! If you ask me and I don't think that the kids need a ton of candy and how not fun is that for a kid to walk around and not even have very much fun. well I put up a little stink about it this year saying that I wanted to do something funner and that would get the kids more involved. I guess a few other people agreed because they planned this super fun carnival. They had a bean bag toss into a pumpkin face, basketball hoop shoot, golf put-put, a trivia game, fishing, cupcake walk, ring toss and a penny toss game. Plus they had refreshments. The kids got to play the games and those in the ward that wanted to participate that didn't have kids just came and picked a station to sit by and handed out their candy as well. It was really fun and a ton of people showed up. Parker sure had a fun time with all his friends from nurery and I think he was the cutest pirate around. Paige is too little to know what was going on but she was a cute little pink leopard. It is sure fun to dress the kids up and let them have a great time!!! I hope the ward does something similar next year. Yay for the activities commitee, they did good!!!!


Me with Paige, there is a spider hanging above me, that is what is in my face.


The fishing game. Parker loved this, he got M&M's, one of his favorites


This was the penny toss, wherever your penny landed you got a prize from the corresponding bowl.



My two cuties!!

My SIL

Tara, this post is for you. I don't really have much to say. We have been up to the same old thing around here. We did have a little halloween/birthday party for Parker and two of his cousins on Sunday out at the in-laws. (OOPS I forgot my camera) Tara do you have any pictures from Sunday??? It was a great time, the kids all got to dress in costumes and they recieves trick or treat bags from grandma Kerry. Parker was spoiled as usual, it is fun to see him get excited about things this year. He will be 3 on Saturday and is starting to really understand and able to communicate with us. We also recieved the Phantom Ghost at our house last night. (Someone rang the door bell and ran and left us a treat on the doorstep). Now it is our turn to return the favor to someone we know. I just finished up a batch of cupcakes that I am going to decorate with bright green and orange frosting. They are still cooling and not finished or else I would post a picture. I might let Parker run and ring the doorbell. We might have to do a few practice runs at our house so he won't get caught in the act. We have a ward party/carnival tomorrow so I know I will have pictures from that. Until then have a great Tuesday!!!

P.S MY storage/scrapbook room is still unfinished. We finally got fed up with the run around and my dad decided that he would be able to do the flooring. He is a busy guy and we appreciate him helping us out. He is about half way finished, I am hoping that he can finish by Saturday so I can have my house back to normal before Big Brothers b-day.