It's Halloween I'm Turning Green!!!

(The title of this post is an actual kids book, which Autumn really liked  :P)

So, here we are in the end-of-year holiday season.  Time for some ghoulish fun before getting ready to stuff ourselves...(First with candy, then with turkey :P)

This year Autumn had several Halloween books to read for her Pizza Hut BOOK IT goal (4 to be exact.)  She read:  It's Halloween I'm Turning Green, October Ogre, Bunnicula, and The Haunted Library.  Next month she'll have another set to read, starting with The Chocolate Touch  :P  (Kid named John Midas where everything his lips touches turns into chocolate).  The boys had several little books that we read, but their favorites were Where's My Mummy, Inside a House that was Haunted, and The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything.

We had them paint some little pumpkins:

And the boys decided to try out my witch hat:

And Andrew drew me a happy ghost:

I couldn't find much in the way of things to do for fall type stuff that didn't end up costing a lot, but we did do Pop's Pumpkin Patch at Cottom's Farm.

And of course there is Halloween itself.  We wore those kids out.  First we went to Sams to pick up some stuff and they all wanted to wear their costumes out, so we figured why not??

In the afternoon we took them to the Haunted Library in Leesburg:

Followed by attending a local church's fall festival.  Then off to the local mall to see how trick or treating there was (not that great, most places that did participate ran out of candy in the first 15-20 minutes):

Then we ended the night checking out the safe door to door trick or treating zone in Fruitland Park (which they loved and we will do again if they have it next year).  Autumn said it was the best Halloween ever.

The kid's calendar has now been updated to November and Halloween decorations are slowly being put away with what little Thanksgiving decorations we have (that you can even FIND) being put up.

And now for the throwback Halloween pics!

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Happy Halloween!

So I'm a slacker...sue me :P

Ok, it's been AGES since I've done a blog post.  We've survived sickness, soccer, birthdays, and Disney.  We're all another year older since my last post as well.  Here are some highlights.  Hopefully I'll be better and at least do monthly blog posts with pics.  These kiddos are growing so fast!!


We'll start with soccer:  Autumn's team finished 2nd overall for the season and 1st in the championship game! 

This was occurring on the same days as her drama production of The Wizard of Oz.  She was a munchkin, cat, Ozian, flying monkey, winkie, and jitterbug:

Then it was Thanksgiving time where the boys decided to watch the turkey cook:

Then we'll quick jump to Christmas day:

Movin' on to Autumn's b-day:

Fast forward to Easter time:

Then we took Andrew to the Monster Jam:

Followed by an impromptu decision to go to Disney for the boy's first D experience:

Then it was Ethan's birthday!

Followed shortly after by Andrew's birthday!

Last, but not least TAIKO DRUMS!!!

And some random pics I like:

More Disney pics:

And I found this blast from the past for everyone to 'Chuckle' about :P