Spooky....

 It's here....the countdown seemed to last forever!  But it's finally here!!

It's so crazy that kids just live for this one day, although the activities seem to last at least one week long!  This year Noah knew that he wanted to be a NINJA.   He decided this quite a long time ago.  I looked online and found him a costume that was pretty cheap, plus free shipping wasn't too shabby either!  I know that the time is coming, much sooner than I want, but he's going to be pretty opinionated about what he wants to wear.  All the cute costumes are probably gone, huh?!

 Here's a quick shot of our front porch, I almost for a teeny tiny second, felt like I was back in Ohio with my beautiful potted plants, thanks to my gardener, I mean husband...isn't it beautiful?

 Noah was so excited to go trick or treating with his buddy Madison and her sister Abby.  They were troopers, just walking and walking and most of the time being polite and saying Thank you!

 We also got in the car & rode over to our friends house who built a haunted house in their driveway.  It was too much for the Barbour's to enter, we choose to stand outside and listen to the screams!

 He needed a timeout to have a sugar break...

 This super cool "spooky" car was a place we had to stop and take a picture of.  This was our "act scared" photo.

 Blake, Madison's brother, was also a Ninja....these two are a fearsome two.....

One scary fightin' Ninja!

Carvin'

 This year Noah actually wanted to participate in carvin' our pumpkins.  Usually he's all excited until we make the first cut & start to pull out the "guts" as we call them.  Then he's done!  But not this year....

 Maybe it was different because we grew our pumpkins this year...that's pretty cool, huh?!

 our final results...............

in order....Noah's, Dad's, Dad's and Mom's....I like my cat!

Harvest Hoedown

This year the school carnival was a HARVEST HOEDOWN...I am the room mom for Noah's 1st grade class.  This event is one of the biggest of the year (when it comes to the responsibilities for the room mom)...I had help from my friend Heather.  She's been thru this a lot so she knows the scoop! 

 They had a few photo spots and the kids thought they were fun!

 Is this not the coolest pumpkin?!  Obviously the cafeteria had leftover food, because those patties & veggies are REAL!

 Every year, each class has a themed raffle basket...this year our theme was SPORTS.  One of the Room Mom duties is to collect items for the basket.  We had great support from the parents in our room, which made it easier on me.  Looks pretty cool, huh?!

 And, each class has a game booth or food booth.  We choose to do the Milk Bottle Toss.  I had to make a sign for the booth.  I made cows for each child and added a picture of them with a milk mustache...it turned out pretty cute if I say so myself.  But, I have to tell you, it wasn't my idea.  That Heather is pretty creative!

This kid was pretty excited to win a bottle of soda. 

This was a busy weekend...but it was fun.  The night before was our Halloween Carnival at church.  I do not have any pictures of this event.  But as you can imagine...it was busy and the kids had fun.  The primary was in charge of the games and they went off without a hitch.

Big Horse Corn Maze

Today was a family fun day! 

We went to the Big Horse Corn Maze in Temecula.

We went with our good friends, The Ryans.  It was a bit warm today, but not too bad.

This is a BIG horse, but he was a friendly guy.  Noah loves horses! 

 The sun was a little too bright for these kids to open their eyes and smile...but at least they are both doing it!   Noah and Madison were twins today, both wearing orange and brown.  Just kind of happened, but it made them happy!

Here are all the kids, getting ready to go get lost in the maze!

 This is the map of the actual maze it is a little over 11 acres.

 We entered, ready and knowing we could do this....BUT, which way to go ?!?!?!  There were quite a few voices shouting out directions....

 There were 10 stations where a Corn Cop was stationed, for help if needed, but also there was a puzzle to solve.  Each station had 2 letters or numbers to write down and then you had to fill in the blanks to come up with the answer.  The kids thought it was fun to get to each Corn Cop and fill in their card.

 The maze was fun and we thought it would be pretty warm inside, but it was actually pretty cool.  Nice due to the day being a little warm.  You can tell that Noah's face is flushed.  It was hard to get good pictures because of the sun filtering in every little place you looked or stepped.

 After the maze Noah was able to choose 3 fun activities.  There were quite a few:  face painting, haywagon rides, pumpkin patch, pig races, pumpkin bowling, pony rides, steer roping....BUT Noah chose Corn Cannon (he got to shoot 5 little corn cobs out of a pipe shooter that was hooked up to an air compressor.  Those cobs flew!!!

 Next was a bouncy house/slide...he loves these things........

 There was also entertainment at its highest!

 His last activity was the Corn Box.  Who would think this could be fun?  He LOVED it.  Rolling, jumping, tossing....CORN everywhere!!!  All the kids were into this one!

It was a fun afternoon.  Afterwards we went with our friends and had dinner. 

It was a fun Fall activity, spent with some nice friends!

A Fun Afternoon With Dad

Today Noah got to spend the afternoon with Dad, just Dad...

My sister and her family are moving and I went to spend the day with her, starting to pack up her house to get ready for the move.  Noah was picked up from school by Dad and they did not follow the "normal" routine of homework and getting things done.  No, they went to the park, went out to dinner, got frozen yogurt...this was definitely not a normal afternoon! 

Noah is going to wish that I go to my sisters house every day....

so he can enjoy the afternoon with just his Dad!