Halloween Fun

Well Halloween this year was a good one for the kiddo's. Mackenzie was a "bad" vampire, Kylie was Ariel, and Gabryle was a cowboy. I think Gabryle ended up getting the most people liking his outfit out of the three kiddo's. Mackenzie and Kylie wore their costumes to school and each had a party in their class. Kylie's was a pizza party and got to eat lunch in her classroom. She had cheese pizza and ate it all gone she said.
Around 12:30 Gabryle and I headed up to the school and helped get Mackenzie's room ready for their class party. She was so thrilled to see Gabryle and I when she and her class came back from their special class of the day. She helped me pass out the drinks that I brought and then went with her class to do what her teacher needed them too do. Gabryle had a blast up at the school. He sat quietly at the reading table that was in the room and took sips out of his capri-sun he had. He would get up a few times, push his chair in, walk to another adult then turn around and pull his chair out and sit back down. When he saw Kenzie he squealed and went and stood by her. Kenzie helped pull a chair up for him and they sat together eating the goodies that were provided. By the end of the party, Gabryle had Kenzie over in the bean bag reading center trying to get her to read him a book. It was cute!
After school at five we went and did the mall's trick-or-treating that they do every year. Once Gabryle figured out that you show the bucket to the people, they give  you candy he was grinning from ear to ear. He was really enjoying himself I think. We finished there, came home ate dinner, and then headed to a neighborhood closer to the school. Boy did they hit the jackpot! Gabryle loved going up and getting candy from people. Some would mention how cute he was and he would just grin at them.
All in all the kids really had fun today! Each girl had fun at their school parties, plus they got the "BOO BAG" we bought for them. They also had a good time trick-or-treating and I would say they got at least a good 5 pounds of candy this year. Next year will most likely be even more fun since Gabryle has the whole thing figured out I believe.

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Carving Pumpkins

Kylie getting the insides
of her pumpkin out.

One of the kids favorite parts of the Halloween time is the carving of the pumpkins. This year Gabryle watched and was just all curious as to why Kenzie and Kylie were sticking their hands inside the pumpkin and pulling stuff out of it.

Mackenzie getting the
insides of her pumpkin out.

We drew the designs on the pumpkins a few days ago so I would know how each pumpkin was to be carved. Mackenzie decided to have hers with a funky mouth so we did bunches of "ups and downs" for her mouth. Kylie's wanted hers to be the maddest of all three pumpkins. On Gabryle's we just all three put our own ideas into the pumpkin and came up with what it is now.
Now the girls can not wait till Monday! Kylie will  get to go trick-or-treating at school along with having her Halloween Party and Pizza Party. Mackenzie's class will have a Halloween party also, which Gabryle and I will go and help at. They also don't know but we ordered each of them a "boo bag" from the PE department at school. For a fundraiser they were selling treat bags that will be distributed during class Monday. They each will get a bag that has candy, vampire teeth, tattoos, and a few other little treats in it. Then Monday evening we will go to the Mall's trick-or-treat event and trick-or-treat at the stores there then head over to a neighborhood or two for trick-or-treating. Kylie's teacher sent a note home that if any of her students stop by her house for trick-or-treating they will get a special trick from her teacher and her family so we plan on stopping by her house. Busy this year for Halloween but it will be fun!!!

the final product!

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CrAzY dAy!

Mackenzie ready for
Crazy Day

Kylie  ready for
Crazy Day

This week at school for the girls it is Red Ribbon Week. Each day they have different themes that the kids can dress up too and the girls were thrilled about today, crazy hair/crazy clothes day. We painted the girls nails yesterday, and then today they wore their shirts inside out, and Mackenzie wore two different flip flops. Kylie wore crazy socks  and that was the end of it for her.

Kenzie decided we should do her hair crazy also, so I put it in 3 loose buns. One on each side and one in the back. She was just going to go to school without doing anything to her hair but since I got the braids too tight, they didn't mess up in the middle of the night so we figured something else out. She also tried wearing her pants inside out but since she could not button or unbutton them she decided not to do that. She even tried wearing a pair of shorts over her pants but didn't like the way it felt. Kylie's hair we just did 2 of the loose buns since her hair is not as long or thick as Kenzie's.

Each day they even do a competition to see which class dressed the best to the theme of the day. Yesterday was beach day, and Kylie's class won for the best dressed in the beach theme. Her class also won the Rid Ribbon door or wall poster contest. They made a large ribbon and each child signed their own name to be drug free. I'm not sure what Kenzie's classes poster looks like since I don't pass her class to pick either of the girls up from school. Hopefully I'll see it Monday when I go to help with Kenzie's classes' Halloween Party.

Tomorrow is Nerd Day. Not sure yet how we will dress if they want to for it but I'm sure we will find something interesting to wear along with it. Thursday is '80's attire, and then Friday is show your Spirit Day. Kenzie already plans on wearing jeans, her school shirt and maybe trying to find a way to add more spirit. I bet Kylie will wear her school shirt also if I can convince her that is still looks really cute on her even if it is big on her. I'll try to post more pictures as I get them!

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Working on an Afghan

Afghan I'm working on

 A while ago I taught myself how to knit. I will be the first to tell you I am not the greatest at it, but I try which is pretty good. I work at it when I have the time, which lately is when the girls are at school and Gabryle is napping, or at night after the kids go to bed.

Right now I am working on a small afghan. I'm halfway through with it so far and have already had Mackenzie ask if I can make her one when I get done making the one I am doing right now. I've almost gone through two fourteen ounce balls of yarn and will do at least one more. (the ball in the corner of the couch is what I have left of the second ball.) I'll also add some claret colored fringe to the ends when I am through with the beige color. I've found it actually pretty relaxing to sit and knit for a while. Occasionally I'll work on it while the kids are off playing in the bedrooms, but not all the time.  

I know it doesn't look like much at the moment, but when I have it completed soon I'll make sure and post some pictures for all to see.

Where's the tooth fairies home?

The girls with their pumpkins
 from the pumpkin patches.

Some conversations between the girls can be quite entertaining and some they have you just sit there and look at them and wonder where their train of thought comes from. Today's conversations have been based around the tooth fairy due to Kenzie loosing 2 teeth in 1 week. Between the tooth fairy and report card (she gets 1 dollar for every "A"), she has gotten six dollars in a week. She kept five and gave one to Kylie just so she would have a dollar to have in her piggy bank.

Today the girls and I went with Gabryle of course to Walmart so they could spend their money on something that they wanted. I didn't realize it would take an hour to pick out something. Kenzie finally picked out a craft activity kit and Kylie bought herself a new set of markers.

A little later we took Jerrod lunch up and as we were leaving the parking lot of the strip center Kylie asked where the tooth fairy lives. I told her that she lives in Tooth Fairy Land, and yet again she asked where does the tooth fairy live. Mackenzie then took over and said that she lives somewhere else that we can not find. Only fairies can find where tooth fairies live (Apparently there are multiple tooth fairies). Kylie being Kylie asked a third time where do tooth fairies live. Mackenzie finally pointed up towards the sky and said up there. Kylie sat for a moment then asked, they live on top of the car? Cool! The girls both laughed and Kenzie finally told her that they live up in Heaven with God. That finally got the conversation to end on where the tooth fairy lives.

Hopefully we won't have the conversation about the tooth fairy again today. At least if they do maybe it will be while Daddy is home for his dinner break tonight.

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Pumpkin Patch

You can always tell when fall has arrived when the girls get their annual field trip to one of the local pumpkin patches. Mackenzie's class, along with the other 4 first grade classes actually get to go to the patch, and then Kylie's class along with the other 3 pre-k classes get to walk across the street to the open field the school owns to visit their pumpkin patch. The local farm that does it actually brings enough pumpkins, plus a few extra to the school and then they let the kids pick out the pumpkin that they want.

Mackenzie ready for pumpkin patch

Kylie said she had fun when she got to go to the pumpkin patch on Monday. They had lots of pumpkins that were big and some were clean and some were dirty. They got to run around the patch till they found the one they wanted, then got to roll the pumpkins to the spot where they were to wait for everyone else to finish and sit on it. Why sit on it I have no idea, but Kylie's is large enough for her to sit on that is for sure! When I picked her up her teacher had it in a bag for me to carry and as we were waiting for Kenzie she told me that the way she picked her pumpkin was to find the biggest dirtiest pumpkin she could find. We got it home and I looked at it and it's not that dirty, and then she showed me what she meant. She found one with the biggest spot on it where it had been laying on the ground in the big patch growing.
Mackenzie had a blast while she was out there. She said the pumpkins were bigger this year and the bounce house was even bigger. She had lunch with her friends and picked her pumpkin and got to ride on the hay ride.  Her favorite part of the day though was picking out her pumpkin. Hers that she found was a little taller and slimmer than Kylie's but still a pretty decent sized pumpkin.
We will take our annual fall pumpkin pictures later and I'll try and remember to post them. All we need now is to find Gabryle a little pumpkin and we'll have a nice fall decoration for the porch!

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Mackenzie..

I have a big order to fill coming up in December. Mackenzie's birthday will of course be in December and she asked me if I can make her birthday cake this year, which I will gladly do for her. I enjoy doing the kids their cakes, and it saves money in the long run when I make them at home. I just find decorating the cakes is fun and you can be as creative with it as you can.
She told me today while we were out in a store looking around that she wants her cake to be round. It also needs to be two or three levels, with a real big cake on bottom and a medium cake and perhaps a small cake, but the big and medium cake for sure, with the medium cake on top of the big cake. (duh). She didn't say what type of cake or what to decorate it as yet, but for sure we know it must be circles. She has liked polka dots for a while now so that is not a big shocker there.
As we were driving home from the city she started giving us ideas of what she would like for her birthday, and then Kylie suggested she should have a Horse party as much as Mackenzie Loves horses! I think she finally decided that she would like a horse party, which would be neat to do. Jerrod had a great idea if we do that, to do the cake in green, like grass, and then put some miniature horses around the cake, which would work really well and look really cute too! She also wants this year to actually do a party that her classmates can come to also, so we'll work on that also. Not sure what all we will do yet but we still have plenty of time to figure that out!
Tomorrow she wants to look at cake ideas online so I bet we can look and find some ideas once she nails down what her party theme will be. We will have fun no matter what she decides to do.

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