Happy Halloween

So, for halloween Addie was dead set on being a rock star and Ethan wanted to something scary, so he chose an alien. I had some ideas for Addie's costume running through my head but nothing major. Nothing in her costume except the hair color had to be bought in the Halloween section so I wasn't in a hurry...until I got sick last week. I didn't leave my house until Saturday morning, although I had planned to go last week during lunch. So Saturday morning Addie and I headed off to Target to come up with an outfit for her "Rockstar" costume. Ethan had his several weeks in advance, so that was easy and he had a mask and everything. easy breazy. I was sick as a dog and was counting down the minutes to make a doctors appt. I didn't really think I needed one but my mom was worried and I knew some better cough syrup with a little codeine to calm my cough so I could get some sleep wouldn't hurt. So we went to Target got a mish mash of stuff then headed off to the doctor. The doctor told me I wasn't allowed to go trick'o'treating. Whah!! I love taking the kids out. I was pretty bummed. So we went home and took a nap, well I took a nap while Derek chased Addie around the house not taking a nap. When I woke up I got Addie ready with the help of my friend Paige, my parents and Derek. Ethan's costume was pretty simple although needed a little bit of work to sit the way it was supposed to. After the little bit of work i had to do I thought my head was going to start spinning so I threw the kids out along with Derek and they went to a friends house up north about 10 miles for a kid Halloween party and some t'o't-ing and I had a quiet house. You would think it would be restful but feeling as crappy as I did and missing the kids get to be so cute and fun it wasn't as restful as i'd have liked. Plus I was hungry and having had been sick for the past several days all the easy food was gone so i had to actually think about what food to eat. Lame. I am ready to be healthy. But it sounds like the kids had a great time...although the candy givers were a little chincey with their reese's this year...not that I would know...it's not like I went and got candy or anything. LOL. Here's the pics of the kids getting ready and in their costumes.

Paige was a super duper rockstar hair stylist. 2 gold stars for sure!!

Gotta have the rock star crimping going on!!

She's got diva primping under control

Ethan is putting the Earth under his spell

Let's roll and be as difficult as possible for mommy to get pics of us

Ready to rock and roll

She's got down that diva pout, dang it...I had hoped she would miss that part

Addie had to do some practicing to get those little fingers to move right

Addie LOVED her rockin costume

Rock on dudes from outerspace!!

Rock on Nanoo

The silly rocker aliens

Addie has got her bag and is almost ready to go...now she just needs to find some shoes.

Ethan and Gabriel getting ready to do some trick'o'treatin'

Ethan is leading the way

Apparently addie needed some makeup. I wasn't there so I am guessing sunglasses.

Not sure why...but this picture just freaks me out. A little too rocker gone, I don't know what...just not right.

As long as she can still rock I guess we're doing okay.

The Pumpkin Patch

Every year I try and plan a trip to th epumpkin patch. Some years we go to a pumpkin patch by my parents house and other years we go by our house. There is a nice pumpkin patch about 5 minutes from our house. this year we thought we would try someplace different and went about 20 minutes from home to a place I had heard about the maze a little further south. Alisha decided to join us on our adventures and showed up in the middle of the night the night before. A fun little last minute addition to our plans. We got down Rutledge Farms and no one was there. It was awesome. It was the weekend before Halloween so we expected it to be packed. I always have to come up with a million reasons why we can't go until the last minute so that Derek doesn't carve the pumpkins to early. Otherwise we end up with moldy Jack-o-Lanterns.

The maze was awesome. The ground was packed down perfectly. No big mud holes or pits in the ground. The maze was pretty easy to follow and although Addie started on Derek's shoulders she quickly joined in and was running through the maze with everyone else. We had a blast.

After the maze we had to catch a ride on a horse drawn hay ride to the pumpkin patch. Now the pumpkin patch was definately lacking as was the entire rest of the field aside from the maze, but we were still able to find some good pumpkins and Addie thought the chickens were cook even if they had no feathers on their butts. They were mean chickens that seemed to pick on each other and pull out each others feathers. So although we will never go back to that pumpkin patch again, we had a great time and while complaining about what it lacked got some ideas of some new ones to check out next year. So here are the pics...

Getting started

Here began Ethan's obsession with the corn

Alisha posing on the bridge

A family pic on the bridge

These 3 were hiding in the corn waiting to jump out and scare us. Don't tell them...but we knew we were there.

Always looking adorable

Ethan captured his sis

Punching out a marker at a checkpoint in the maze.

Ethan talking to Addie while walking through the maze

The boys on the bridge

All the corn

Addie hanging out on a bridge looking at all the corn

Ethan was obsessed with the corn through the entire maze. What is it with kids and caring about the least important thing in an event.

No Ethan...Mommy takes the pictures and you stand and look cute!!

Ethan is always so sweet to his sister (well, almost always)

Being silly waiting to head over to the pumpkin patch

A family pic while we are waiting for the hay ride to the pumpkin patch

We had to take a hayride to the pumpkin patch from the maze area

Derek and Ethan are working together to find the coolest pumpkins

Ethan is on a mission to find the best pumpkin EVER!!!

This one looks waaay toooooo big!!

It looks like it could be a nice pumpkin

Uh oh...it might be too heavy

Addie's last test to see if she could lift it up

Addie made her decision

Ethan was checking out all sorts of pumpkins but this was the one he was pretty sure was the one

Ethan's final pumpkin choice

Ethan decided to hitch a ride to weigh in the pumpkins