Cookie turkeys

The kids love cookies so we decided to make sugar turkey cookies. I traced their hand prints on the dough, baked it and then they decorated them. 

A peacock

This yr. Kyla is in Kindergarten. When my kids were in Kindergarten there was alot of game time, story time, snack time and even nap time etc. Well not now days. They do and learn alot and have homework every night, reading to do everyday and it is alot of work for Kim sometimes. Kyla had a project of disguising this Turkey so he wouldn't be caught for Thanksgiving and be creative!! I don't know how my camera took this sideways so you just have to look at a sideways turkey LOL
We toyed with the idea of a sheep, a ballet dancer, a monster and then we came up with a Peacock. I had some real feathers that I got from an Aunt that raises Peacocks and so we cut them down and she made a Peacock. We thought that he looked pretty darn cute.

But Kim and I were sitting there laughing~~wondering how many kids would come in with a peacock with "real" feathers!! LOL Turns out another kid made a Peacock too but not with real feathers LOL
Her teacher said that she really liked it!! I have a good feeling that this Turkey won't be for dinner next Thursday!! ;-)

Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat!! That was what Zac learned this year to get some...c-a-n-d-y!! Oh and...Valerie taught him to say Thank-you!! By day he was Charlie Brown and a cute one at that!!
Come time to get ready, he turned into a adorable puppy! He even wolfed for us!!

Give him a microphone and he is a singin fool!! LOL Kaleb was a pit crew worker this year and had a nifty speaker phone attached to his cap. He was the Top guy with that!!Kyla was a Beautiful Butterfly. I made the wings and she painted them all pretty colors. You will notice that they have alot of pink/purple/blue cuz those are her favorite colors.
Here is right before they were gonna go~~and they brought home a whole punkin full of candy!!! only for them though~~wink, wink~~

The Halloween Walk

Friday was a very busy day!! At Meehan, they have a school parade where they march around the school twice. This is her class's banner, Mrs Wisley's class.
Kyla is a beautiful Butterfly~~

The wings are kinda hanging low~~Just a small adjustment that I had to make when she got home that day.

From 4-6 pm they got to go to the HS for a Halloween Walk.

The different clubs, took a hall and decorated it with cool decorations. One hall had trash bags over the lockers (they have short lockers) from side to side and made like a haunted hallway:

They had games to play like ball toss, bouncing ball in the bucket, hopscotch, pumpkin pickw/the number on the bottom, frisbee pickup w/the number on the bottom.

This must have been left over from Homecoming. It was a dead E-rab and they stuffed it with candy and they were like surgically removing the candy with tongs. These students wore Dr. outfits.And of course, they had face painting. Kaleb got a bat and Kyla got a butterfly. It was a food idea and all the kids were having fun.

Pumpkin carvings!!

Not too much has been going on lately, so we have been on a lull~~ But now since it is almost Halloween, we have PUMPKINS!!!! Kaleb doesnt like the mush and getting dirty so he is getting it cleaned out seed by seed!! LOL Kyla on the other hand loves to play and squish all the insides~~

TADA!!! We have Pumpkins!!!!

Cleaning day here today

Don took a couple days off to get work done around the house. Well yesterday nothing got done but groceries and a nap for Don. So, today we had to really hit it. First was cleaning out the stuff in the garage, throwing some away and re-arranging the rest. Kim was taking the kids to do errands and to a friends football game and Kyla didnt want to go so she stayed with us and we put her to work earning her keep LOLAfter the garage was cleaned, we started on the zillion windows that we have LOL We always start on the top cuz it is the hardest part Photo by Kyla LOL

And we put Kyla right to work. She thought it was great to squirt the cleaner on and have her very own paper towels LOL She had fun washing. When we got to the front, she got to climb up the big ladder.

When the front windows were done, Kyla got to climb through the window!!
Then it was off to the yard. Grandpa was going to fertilize so she followed him and watched and I am pretty sure she was talking the whole time LOLWe still have to do the bottom windows tomorrow but we got alot done today with Kyla's help!! She told her mom that her and Kaleb missed all the fun today LOL

Cousins and the TV remote

The other day Valerie was here to get Zac and Valerie, Kim and I were all talking in the kitchen. Valerie hears all this screaming coming from the living room!! She went to check and it was Kaleb screaming.
It appears that Kaleb was busy watching his cartoon shows when....all of a sudden.....

Zac gets the remote and plops himself on the loveseat with the BIGGEST smile on his face and is laying there changing all the channels of the TV~~driving Kaleb crazy!!! LOL P.S. Kaleb's cry was re-enacted but not as well as the original cry!! LOL