Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Pumpkins and Parties!!!

This was the first year Jessie was allowed to carve her own pumpkin.  She thought about what kind of face she wanted for her pumpkin and then it was down to business.  Very serious business!

 
 

Daddy helped Jessie with the finishing touches, while she looked on to make sure Rian was doing ok.
 

 
Ta-da!

Here we have (from left to right) Daddy's, Jessie's, Mommy's and Rian's pumpkins.  Hayden's design was so intricate it took a very long time to complete- well past everyone's bedtime.  You can kind of make it out in the picture below (front and center) It is a giaint tarantula. 

It's a little past everyone's bedtime in case the faces fooled you.
 
 
JESSIE'S PRESCHOOL PARTY 


Jessie decided to be a pirate girl this year.  Here she is with all of her friends at Paddington Preschool.
 

Her BFF from the past three years, Tayteum Gordy.
 

Jessie and Samantha holding up spider web pretzels.

Doing a pumpkin craft outside in the nice warm sunshine.

 

Spider ring toss.

Miss Jeanine always throws a fabulous Halloween party for the kids.  There was great food, crafts, music and all kinds of different games to entertain the children.  After Jessie's party, we raced up to McGraw for Rian's 1st grade Halloween party.
 
 
I must say she really rocked that poodle skirt and those pointy glasses! After everyone had changed into their costumes, the entire school participated in a Halloween parade through all of the classrooms and then headed back to their own classes to eat.

Ms. Hall's 1st grade class 2012-2013


The food spread was quite impressive- complete with foaming witches' brew. I didn't get many pictures because I was helping to run the games (like Halloween Bingo) while the kids were busy eating and visiting. And the other reason is because I accidentally took another mom's camera and was snapping pictures on that one, not realizing we had the same camera until I got home that night and didn't recognize most of the pictures on the memory card!  Oops!