Showing posts with label halloween 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween 2014. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Trick Or Treat!

My girls were so excited about Halloween this year! As soon as we got home from school we started in on our Halloween festivities! I made Jack-O-Lantern pizza from Papa Murphy's and I've never been more grateful for them making me feel like a pin-worthy mama! They also had orange chocolate chip cookie dough, so I totally won out feeling like I was all creative when I wasn't at all! #papamurphysforthewin 

I had a picture of the pizza on my phone, but that photo will have to come on another day. Read- I'm too lazy to upload photos from multiple sources into this one blog post. You're welcome. I assure you the pizza totally looked like a jack-o-lantern and the girls were thrilled. Gretchen immediately requested the stem! 
The girls loved their Halloween dinner!
Meggie was so thrilled that she barely ate anything! She was way too excited for trick-or-treating!

Once dinner was made and the kitchen was semi-clean, I helped get all of the girls in their costumes. 
Gretchen was Elsa. She even had silver glitter in her hair. 
I made Adalyn a little snowman, so she could play the role of Olaf. 
Megan went as Doc McStuffins. Here are my three little trick-or-treaters!
Adalyn also served the role as "Chilly" for my little Doc.

The original plan was that all of the girls would be Doc McStuffins characters. Gretchen backed out about two weeks before Halloween and decided that she would rather be Elsa. Thankfully, the Disney store was fully stocked on Elsa costumes and I didn't have to drive all over town looking for one. 
 
Megan was the perfect little Doc! I have never braided her hair before, but I loved her pigtail braids!
Eep! My little snowman! 

I found her black top hat at Hobby Lobby in the doll-making section. I added sparkly white sequins and hot glued a clip so it would stay in her hair. I made her a tutu dress with white tulle and I hot glued sparkly foam circles as her "buttons". I could have painted her face, but it was just too much effort! 

This was our first Halloween without DJ joining us to trick-or-treat. Thankfully, one of our coaches wives stepped in and came with us!
Addy's first trick-or-treat was at our neighbor's house. After Addy got her candy, Mrs. Carmen (who is snapping Addy's picture) joined us too!
I was so happy to have helpers with me! Mrs. Karen, the coaches wives, even got in the spirit and dressed as a giant penguin! She's pulling Addy in the wagon, and you can only see her feet. 
It was so cold; the girls had to wear their jackets! I tried to bundle them up as much as I could under their costumes, but they were freezing by the end of our trick-or-treat trip.
Do you notice all of the tumble weeds up by the door? Welcome to Oklahoma!
Addy was very content with her sucker while we were trick-or-treating. Once her sucker was gone though, she wanted to go up to houses to get more candy and she did not want back in the wagon. Finally, Mrs. Carmen took Adalyn back to her house, which gave the big girls and I plenty of time to hit two more streets!
The girls were not so sure about going up to this house!

Once we hit up three of the streets in our neighborhood, the girls were cold and tired, so we headed home. 
Adeline immediately went after the candy!
One of my favorite parts about Halloween is getting home and dumping out the goods! The girls have so much fun digging through and seeing what they got, and I enjoy picking out the pieces they won't like!
Gretchen was being a bit too serious with all of her candy!
I let the girls have an orange chocolate chip cookie, and a few pieces of candy, and then two out of three of them crashed! Megan was up for at least another hour and a half, and I watched Tulsa loose to Memphis before calling it a night! 

We were exhausted, the girls had fun, and memories were made!

Perfection.

Monday, November 3, 2014

Pumpkin Carving Fun!

I hope you all had a great weekend! Despite, another Tulsa loss on Friday night, this weekend was just what I needed! I hope to be back to my regularly scheduled blogging this week, except, "Girl Mom" will be postponed until next Tuesday and then we'll resume from there! This week will be lots of catching up on what's been going on over my blogging break!

We went to the pumpkin patch the Saturday before Halloween, and then the following Monday, we let the girls carve their jack-o-lanterns! We went to pumpkin patch much later this year than we usually do, but we wanted to wait for a weekend that DJ would be able to go with us! We wanted to carve pumpkins that Sunday night, but a late night at the football office for DJ meant that we had to postpone carving until Monday. 
After I put Adalyn to bed, we began our pumpkin carving project!
DJ helped Meggie draw her jack-o-lantern face. 
But Gretchen was able to do everything all on her own!
She even made him "scars" everywhere! I think this is the most detailed her jack-o-lantern has ever been!
Once the faces were drawn, we set to work scooping out the guts!


Then DJ did lots of carving!

Megan thought it was really neat that we were putting a "hat" back on her pumpkin.
She's all smiles now that her jack-o-lantern is finished!
While DJ carved Gretchen's pumpkin, the girls played with the guts. 
Then we took our pumpkins outside and lit them. Megan obviously had a very important phone call!

Gretchen and her jack-o-lantern.
Megan and her's!

Yay for pumpkin carving time!

Friday, October 31, 2014

Pumpkin Patch!

The last few weeks have been filled with some ups and downs; it's caused me to take a break from blogging. I've been sick, I've had my feelings hurt, and I've been exhausted. I had a much needed break and after last night, I decided that it was time to get back to 'me'. The me that loves blogging, that loves my family, and that loves having my little corner of the intrawebs. So, I apologize for my little break, but it came at the perfect time to open my eyes. God's timing is pretty impeccable. 

Last weekend, Tulsa had a bye weekend, which meant that DJ had an entire Saturday off! We decided to take the girls to the pumpkin patch, since we had an entire day to spend together. It definitely does not happen often during football season! 

Last Saturday was crazy hot! I'm pretty sure it was almost 90 degrees, which is just all sorts of crazy! I remember taking Gretchen to the pumpkin patch in Indiana when it was freezing cold and we were bundled in jackets! I'm not going to lie, I'll take the crazy hot 90s over the freezing cold weather we endured while living in Indiana. 
Our first stop for the girls was the pony rides! Since we went to a friend's pumpkin farm last year, this was the first year that Megan was able to ride the pony's. She was really excited to ride a pony, and then when it was her turn, she instantly became shy and nervous. Typical Megan. DJ asked if he could walk along beside her, and Megan was happy. 
Gretchen had tons of fun and climbed right on her pony all by herself. 
Eventually, DJ was able to step a little further away from Megan as she grew braver!
After pony rides, we headed over to the petting zoo. 
Gretchen was totally disinterested in the animals. She maybe stayed near the animals for 5 seconds and then wandered off and was begging to go to the hay maze. 

DJ fed all of the animals. Megan was too shy, and Addy was just pretty curious. 

Adalyn is getting so tall! She's still tiny, but as each day passes, I realize that she's not my little baby, but she's growing more and more into a toddler. 
Adalyn loved climbing in and out of the wagon. I brought our Ergo, but she did really well walking around or sitting in the wagon. 
Once the girls had their fare share of animals, we went to the hay maze. 
The girls loved running through the hay bales!
Then we hit up the wagon ride!
It is so, so hard to get a picture with everyone looking at the same time!
After our hay ride, we went to pick out our pumpkins!
And, I attempted to get a picture of the girls. 
And I failed. 

We let Gretchen and Megan pick out a big pumpkin that we would carve later. 
Then we picked out pie pumpkins for Adalyn and Megan to take to daycare for their annual pumpkin patch hunt. 

Our girls had so much fun at the pumpkin patch! Like I said, it was crazy hot, but we really enjoyed our day!

Here are a few of our other pumpkin patch visits!