2012 Blue Jeans Week 44

We had a fun and busy week, as I am sure all of you did, with Halloween.  My previous post was all about our Halloween, so check it out.  Here are our weekly pictures.  Enjoy!

Sunday:  For some reason Mr J has been begging and begging me to make an apple pie.  Finally today we got around to doing it.  He was a huge helper, and having an apple peeler/corer/slicer really helps.  It was a yummy apple pie!  Love the flavors of fall!

Monday:  The Monday before Halloween is always our family Halloween party.  Everyone is to dress up, and we always invite my parents.  They did a great job of dressing up this year, especially my dad who was a load of laundry :)

Tuesday:  Decorated a lot of pumpkin sugar cookies today.  Mr J needed them for his Halloween party at school.  He was quite proud that he decorated them all himself, and the kids at school loved them!

Wednesday:  Happy Halloween!  Miss A and Miss O didn't last too long trick-or-treating, but Miss E and Mr J sure had fun!

Thursday:  Welcome November!  We don't live close to any of Ben's family, but they are so good to keep in touch and remember us.  We love them.  They sent us a November countdown calendar.  In each envelope is something different each family member--cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents--is grateful for.  We hung it up in our kitchen to see it.  Then we tape their grateful cards on the wall after we open them.  Thank you family!!!  We love you!

Friday:  Typical evening scene in the kitchen--Mr J washing dishes (we had pancakes tonight, thus the grill being out) and Miss O cutting carrots for lunches.

Saturday:  The younger kids had an awards ceremony for the first nine weeks of school.  They both did awesome, and we got a picture of their awards today.

Thanks for visiting and hope you all have a great week!  Welcome November!

Blue Jeans Week 42

Slowly getting caught up.  Made it through Halloween parties and dances and projects.  Looking forward to a slower (hopefully) November.  Here is last week's pictures.

Sunday:  The results of our pumpkin carving party.  From left to right Mr J's, Miss A's Miss E (she decided to do a face on both sides?) and Miss O's (which also has faces on both sides)

Monday:  Happy Halloween!  Miss E is a detective,  Miss A a Hawaiian girl, Mr J Darth Vader, and Miss O is Amelia Earhart.  Miss A only went to one house dressed up, then she decided a 13 year old didn't need to go trick-or-treating---sigh, she could have at least gone and given her candy to her dad and me.  Kids grow up too fast.

Tuesday:  I was the elementary school secretary today.  It was kind of fun except for the girl that threw up and the boy who got a goose egg bump on his head and 2 kids with fevers and the phone that rang 100 times.  I was very happy to go home to my quiet house with only 4 kids instead of a school of 200.  I have so much more respect for the school secretary now, and I hope she never gets sick or has to be gone again!

Wednesday:  This is our "before" picture of our trees.

Thursday:  This is the sad "after."  When I brought the kids home from school and Mr J saw it he just cried and cried.  I held him while he cried for a while and then he got up and went in the front yard and walked around where the trees were and started crying again.  Made my heart just ache.

Friday:  But when life gives you lemons, made lemonade, so the kids made a tree fort in the front yard from the wood, and they have enjoyed it--Mr J doesn't cry every time he sees the front yard now.  They will get to keep the tree fort for a few weeks until they come back to split the wood and stack it in the back.

Saturday:  One of the kids took this picture of Ben.  It is always interesting to see the pictures on the camera that I didn't take :)  I think he was sorting cards for a game to play tonight.

Hope you all had a fun Halloween and that you have a great week!

Halloween 2010

Very scary at our house this Halloween, a witch, Leonard DaVinci, Harry Potter and the Dread Pirate Roberts. 

Beware!

Ah, just kidding.  They are the sweetest kids you will ever meet (most of the time. . .)

Tricks and Treats--Signs of Halloween

Getting ready to go Trick-or-treating, our Chinese Girl, Charlie Chaplin, our Alligator Hunter, and our Train Engineer
Our Chinese Girl during the Halloween parade at school. She wore those shoes the whole block, ouch!

Ben took the kids to the Buster Keaton Silent Film Festival the end of September, and they showed some Charlie Chaplin films, and the kids loved them! Miss O came home that night and said she wanted to be Charlie Chaplin for Halloween.

Our spooky jack-o-lanterns

Miss A, dressed as a tree for our FHE family Halloween party, shows off her carved pumpkin.

Miss O and her pumpkin

Grandpa came to our party too dressed as a letter (see the stamp on his head?) and Miss E requested that he help her with her pumpkin. They made a cyclops. Cool, huh?

Mr J and Nana show off the pumpkin they did.

One of the 3 batches of pumpkin shaped sugar cookies I made last week. I use my grandma's recipe that I will have to share sometime. It is the best!