Halloween 2012

This year for Halloween we had an army guy, witch, snow princess and stubborn toddler.  This neighborhood is the BEST place to trick or treat.  People go all out, sit outside with all their decorations and goodies and give out tons of candy.  There are so many kids running around everywhere it was actually hard to keep track of the four of ours.  I think O counted his candy and he had over 200 pieces and that was after I had confiscated all the sugary junk (non-chocolate).  The kids get to keep some and we donate the rest to a local dentist that in turn sends it to deployed troops (I'm sure they need the sugar a whole lot more than my kiddos).  I think they would have kept going all night long if we had not persuaded them to come back to the house and start giving some of our candy out, they had a great time.

O scores some for Norah, what a nice brother

O and Miles, best buds

Norah wants in on the candy, didn't take her long to catch on

Pumpkin Carving 2012

This year the kids upped the ante on our pumpkin carving skills.  Fin picked snow white, Keira picked a bat-cat and Owen picked some crazy church on hill spooky scene.  Not wanting to disappoint Kevin obliged and started with Finley's pumpkin, it took a lot longer than they had the attention span for.  By then end I think Kev and I were the only two left interested in the pumpkins, until they were all done of course.  I think next year we'll stick the good old jack-o-latern..

Can you see snow white?

I totally spaced and didn't take pictures of the other two pumpkins, I think we were just happy to be done carving the darn things.  All that work and they lasted about 2 days in the heat down here before they starting rotting and falling apart, sheesh!

Chinese Tea Garden

We've been in and out of San Antonio for over 7yrs at this point and we've never ventured into this place, until a few weeks ago when Noni and Popi were here.  We decided to bring Kev here today so he could check it out.  It's such an unexpected place in the middle of the city, small but really pretty. O was at school so we just had the girls with us, they're always game for anything.

Seeing as I am so far back with the blog I figured I'd start with today and work my way back, heck I haven't even posted the kids Halloween photos yet.  I'm gonna do a better job keeping up, promise!

South Texas Corn Maize

We headed to Hondo to visit the corn maize on sunday, perfect weather and even cold by Texas standards.  Last time we visited I was pregnant with Norah and it was super hot outside, see?  It was much more enjoyable this time around, the kids were bigger and seemed to get more out of it.  We did get lost in the corn for quite a while but finally managed to find out way out, the maze is big.  We ended up staying for around 3.5hrs and everyone slept the entire way home, well worth the trip.

How fun is this slide, they were on it for at least and hour straight.

Checking out the hay bales

Fin's kind of the world

 Of course Norah has to get in on the action

The cobs for the corn launching gun

See, I do exist! Heading into the maze.

 Norah's favorite thing to do was to "hide" in the corn until someone would find her, like I said we were in there for a while.

Surveying the land (aka cheating) to find our way out, we were desperate at this point.

We finally made it, what's better than fresh roasted corn as a reward?

Helping Norah on the big bouncy pillow, she loved it but 15mins of bouncing with a 20mths old is tiring.

Time to check out the pumpkins

Happy 6th Birthday Big Guy!

My first born baby turned 6yo last weekend, how is that possible?  Seems like we were just rocking him by the sink for hours on end and now he's a kindergartner.  We decided to forgo a kids party this year and just do a few special things with him instead.

We ate lunch with him at school on friday, he requested MckD's (ewww) but they weren't serving lunch yet so he decided he was ok with Sonic.  Can you tell how little fast food my kids get, they request it on their birthday..

Kev and I boobied trapped his door on friday night, hoping he wouldn't be too freaked out to come out of his room in the morning.  Not only was he not afraid to come out but he snuck under the crepe paper, I had to convince him to run through it and bust it open.

Opening his gifts from his sisters, Hess trucks all around.

 He also got several Lego sets, this is the first one he put together from Noni.  He finally has the patience to read the booklet and go step by step, he did it all by himself and was so proud.

Cake time, Happy Birthday O!