Halloween 2013

We started the day at Moon Valley Park because the entire 3rd grade was there for a field trip/party.

 Francis took the day off so he could come with me to the parties.

 The kids danced, played games & made huge bubbles.

 We had lunch

 Kali & her good friends Lauren & Monica

 Kora loved getting to play with the big kids

 Then we took Kora home for a nap and came back to the school to do Kai's party. Here they are waiting to come in the classroom.

 Listening to instructions

 Decorating pumpkins, ghosts, pencil toppers, and cookies.

 Kai's little pumpkin plant

 He loved the party!

 Then we came home, Kali had Monica come over for a little bit, and we went to look at this cool pirate house in North Phoenix. After that we got the kids ready & my Mom made us all delicious fajitas. Here they are ready to trick-or-treat. Kai is Thor, Kali is a dead cheerleader & Kora is a kitty.

 They LOVED handing out candy.

 While we were trick-or-treating we ran into some of Kai's soccer teammates so we joined their family around the neighborhood.

 Kai and his friends Mason & Noah.

 Daddy eating Kora's candy

 This was one WILD kitty!

 Look at the cool pumpkins that Cody (my brother) carved for us

 Sugar HIGH!!!

It was a perfect Halloween :)

Fall in Prescott

Since our Halloween party wore us out we spent the next afternoon driving to Prescott and hanging out under the Fall leaves. It was a perfect day.

Fall!!

 Leaf angel

 Hooray for Fall!!

 it was sooo nice to sit under the trees as the leaves fell

 Picnic lunch

 Throwing leaves

 The kids collected leaves to bring home & show their classes tomorrow

 Fun with leaves

 Kora loves her Daddy

 Waving to Daddy

Halloween Party 2013

We had our annual Halloween Party last night. It was SO much fun and since we've had SO many parties over the years it was pretty easy & stress free.

The only problem we had was Kai deciding NOT to wear the Hercules costume he asked my Mom to make him the night before.

 He changed into this Snake Eyes costume right before the party. I was Athena, Francis was Zeus & Kali was a Tree Nymph (all from the Percy Jackson books I've been reading the kids) So Kai messed up our family theme a big ;)

Here we are with my Dad (Ghostbuster) and Kora the pirate.

 Kali & her friend Monica (the boys are photo bombing)

 Kora the Pirate

 Food!!

 Cody & Ashly

 Our across the street neighbors

 Next door neighbor Yaya as a pirate with Koko (who cried the first 30 minutes of the party)

 Kali with her school friends

 Kai with his school friends (who all live right down the street)

 Bret

 Our sweet Tree Nymph

 Dry ice fun

 taking a break to eat

 more eating

 Cousins

 Penelope

 Kai...it was SOOO hard to take a picture of the boys since they were running around the entire time

 Athena & Zeus with our little pirate

 Kora cheered up after she got some popcorn & then had about 10 more cups and ate a bunch off of the ground.

 Rosemary, Ashly & Clementine

More dry ice fun (seriously the kids LOVED this)

 Kora stayed up until 10 pm running around outside, she is a party animal!!

 The pumpkins that Cody carved out front.

It was a fun night with great friends & family.