Halloween night

We had a nice evening. After spending lots of money on candy the first few years we lived here, the last two years we have chosen to go to Grace Park's trunk or treat. They do a great job with it and have probably 20 different trunks to trick or treat at and a hayride and bouncy for the kids. They also had chili and hot dogs for $1 which would have been a great deal but we had already decided to go out to Mexican for dinner tonight.

Pictures before hand. Nathan refused to take anymore pictures.

My little model hamming it up for the camera.



I got one of him when we got there.

We met up with Batman aka Josh.

This one that I got of him I actually cropped him out of another picture!

Daddy and Nathan.

Here are some of the trunks we visited.



This lady had a whole farm set up inside her trunk

These people had a maze the kids followed through to get their candy.

Waiting for the hayride.

Not enough room for the mom's. So Chris took the kids.


Teri and I went inside where it was warm. Someone was a little hungry.

Baby Joey even got in on some of the action.

Then we went out to dinner. Nathan refused to smile so these are the pics I got.

Then we headed back home and had some time to hit some houses around our house. Just in walking a short distance, there were two well set up haunted houses and one had a chain saw going. Just a little too much for the kids!

Then we had to dump all our candy out and go through it before bed.




Jessica walked in the house and stripped, hence the naked body. lol. I think I am going to have to hide some candy before they wake up. I now have way tooo much candy in the house.

Very fun and laid back night. Kids were in bed by 8:30 and I have already changed the clocks back so actually it is only 7:30. My fever seems to be gone but my throat is hurting a little worse. So I am going to bed too!

The Very Hungry Catapillar

It is a busy time! Lots of posts for you to read!

Today I had tickets for the TPCA family field trip series of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Catapillar, Little Cloud, and The Mixed Up Chameleon. It was a great performance! It was a puppet theatre from Nova Scotia that recreated the three books with puppets and all done in black light!

They had a bunch of activities before the show.

Here they got to take cotton pieces and color them to make clouds and tape them to the big background.





This was Jessica's, she said she drew a "m" for mom, a "d" for dad, a "j" for Jessica and an "n" for Nathan on hers.

Then here they got to make a caterpillar. She helped them take two sticks and put a piece of velcro between them.

Then they picked out balls to make their bodies and put eyes on them.

Very cute!


Stage before the show.


Nathan refused to smile.

After the show, they came out and told us how they recreated it. Here they were showing how the Caterpillar ate through the apple.

The mixed up chameleon and all the different things they put on him.

All of the different color chameleons.

After the show they had 5 trick or treat stations set up for the kids. And here they could get their paper signed by the ones that performed the show.


Taking a break and eating the cookie we got at one of the treat stations.

Ok, Jessica took this picture. It was great of Nathan because he actually smiled, but had the shadow on me.

This was better of me, but Nathan was back to not smiling. lol

And Nathan managed to actually take a picture of me and Jess.

Playing in the water before we left!

Great performance!

Some cute fall pics

Have I mentioned I like my new camera? I don't love it yet because there are still so many things I can't do with it but I am enjoying some of the great shots I can get with it.

After school on Friday, we decided to play in the leaves. Grace Park has tons of trees so tons of leaves. I think the kids would have stayed there for hours playing.












Nathan found a worm. He was very concerned about it and about where its mommy was. He refused to leave it and we had to bring it home. I think he stuck it on the door at home and it died.

Neat angle. Both of them were watching the worm.


He was so gentle with it.

Experimenting with different planes. Love how I can blur out the background.





Today was favorite sports day shirt at school. Our friend embroidered this shirt for us. Loved it!