Halloween

 A month ago we had lots of Halloween fun. One of the FHE activities we carved pumpkins and had lots of fun. We went down town and went trick-o-treating to the businesses a week before Halloween. On Halloween we were able to go to our ward trunk-o-treat at the church building and then we went to our Grandparents house. We had a very fun filled evening. Here are the pictures that we were able to take!

 Layla borrowing Ethan's pumpkin from pre-school. 

Ethan showing off his pumpkin

Taking the guts out!!!

 Daisy getting ready to color with the markers.

 Layla getting excited about the pumpkins

 Daddy carving an Iron Man pumpkin

Finished products

Daisy wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween, (She found this when we went birthday shopping for Ethan.)

Daisy and Ethan ready to go around town for trick-o-treating to the businesses.

Ethan and Dad trying on their new costumes. Daisy showing her princess muscles.

Daisy as the little mermaid

Mommy trying to get a better picture of her red hair that we colored because we could not find a red wing for her.

 Better picture of her red hair! 

 Iron Man!!

 My Super Heroes and my Princesses!!

Ethan and his friend Bracken. 

 Layla, the cute fairy Princess

 

Hanging out in the trunk and stealing some candy from Bracken's family!

Family Halloween picture!

(Dad- Batman, Mom- Green M&M, Layla- Fairy Princess, Ethan- Iron Man, and Daisy- Little Mermaid)

Grandpa as a sock monkey!! What a cool Grandpa!!!

Ethan's First B-day Party

I now know why my parents let me have a party every other year. It is so hard to plan a party and make sure all goes well. This year Steve and I decided to let Ethan have a birthday party and I think everyone went home satisfied. Since Ethan is so into the Avengers this year we had the party theme be 'The Avengers'.  I was able to put together three games for the party that were super hero related and I think the games were a lot of fun. Here are some pictures from the party.

The cool Avengers cupcakes that Kandice brought for Ethan's party. Thanks Kandice, they were very cute and very yummy!!!!!

Parker playing while we wait for all the guests to arrive.

Captain Sloane America

Everyone got to choose a mask from the Avengers group. Captain America was very popular with both the boys and girls.

The kids playing on the play ground while we wait for a few other friends.

Our first game was a potato sack race, which Steve and I changed the name to 'Super Hero Sack Race'.

Here's the video of the entire race. Watch if you can. I think it's hilarious.

Parker taking his turn with the second game- 'Pin the Star on the Shield'.

Bracken on his turn.

Madison trying to pin her star on the shield. She is such a wonderful girl!!

We had pizza for lunch and followed it with yummy cupcakes.

Opening his cool gifts he got from his wonderful friends!!

 Ethan checking out his new Captain America with a motorcycle. Everyone was interested in that!


 Daisy enjoy her pizza and soda! She was in here own world for most of the party and really enjoyed herself.

Our final game was a three legged race, which was renamed to 'Super Hero-Side kick'.

Note: Sorry about my loud voice.



Ethan- The Big 5!

I can't believe it has been five years since Steve and I were alone in our family. For some reason this birthday has been really hard on me. I think because the days were the same as the year he was born and I could remember everything like it was yesterday. My baby boy just seem to have grown up when I wasn't looking!! We were able to make his day a very great day. We didn't get to do anything way too big because we didn't have lots of money, but Steve came up with a treasure hunt for Ethan to get his birthday presents. Later that night we were able to have family come over to have cake and ice cream. It was a great day for Ethan plus he was able to have a friend party that following Saturday. Picture to come soon. Here are pictures of the fun day that was had by the birthday boy. 

 Getting measured. It's a tradition I wanted to do every year on our kids birthday to see how much they have grown in a whole year.

 He is 3ft and about 6 inches. That's our growing boy.

Getting started on his treasure hunt.

 Daisy trying to help out.

 On to the next stop.

 Yellow Triangle

 Green rectangle

 The last shape to get him to his treasure.

 Going to get his treasure, Kenny is keeping them safe.

 Ethan's treasure!!

 Birthday cake

Avenger in training t-shirt.

 Opening one of his awesome presents.

 Avengers and Mario

 Focusing on opening his presents.

 He's a big puzzle fan

 Cutting the ribbon, he really loves to use the scissors!

 One tired munchkin

 

 Ethan's first remote control vehicle. Thanks you Uncle Matt!!

 Daisy playing in the bag.

 Taking her turn with the toys. The boys wouldn't share the truck so she would just play with the box.

 Ethan and his Avengers cake.

Uncle Matt trying out Ethan's Thor Hammer he got from Daisy.