Halloween and Weekend Fun!

Last Monday was Halloween!  Such a fun time for kids!  We had lots of events leading up to it so it was a big exciting day when it finally came.  They had to have paper bag costumes for school so I got some ideas online and got to work!  I was very proud of the result and the kids were excited on Monday morning also!  :-)

Here is the back of Kylie's costume - I thought it was clever.  :-)

Monday night was very exciting!  It was a little disappointing cause it started to rain around 3pm which meant our neighborhood Pre Trick-or-Treating Pizza Party was cancelled.  :-(  Luckily, it stopped raining about 10 minutes after we went out.  It was still a little soggy but the kids got some use out of their new rain boots that Grammy and Papa got for them.

Getting ready to go!

Showing off the tails

Before we left, Abby came to our door with her dad, Eric.  I just had to have a picture of them!! :-)

Great picture with Daddy!

I took the kids out and Waylon stayed back to hand out candy.  He said we had tons of kids (as expected) and we saw a bunch of people out on the streets.  They did really well walking around and had so much fun!

When we arrived at Margaret's house, Kylie walked right up and said, 'I'm a kitty cat, MEOW!'  It was so cute!!

Back at home, enjoying candy and relaxing!!  HA

We had a good week after that.  I enjoyed not having anything big to plan (or shop) for that week!  :-)  Friday, the kids stayed home with me for the first time in a few weeks so we had a great time together.  We went to storytime at the library.  They were reading the Nutcracker and had some of the kids from the Raleigh City Ballet perform some of the dances from their big show.  It was really cool and the kids loved it!

Afterwards, we grabbed a quick lunch and then went to visit Grandaddy at work!  Everyone was very excited about that and Grandaddy really enjoyed showing the kids off to his coworkers.  :-)  When we walked up to the front desk, one of his coworkers called for him, 'Dick!!' and Kylie corrected her, 'Grandaddy!'  :-)

At Grandaddy's desk

Friday night, we met Daddy, Carolyn and Abby at Red Robin for dinner.  Madness - as expected with three young kids - but fun!

All the kids piled on Waylon.  :-)

Saturday, Waylon decided he didn't want to go to the football game (he hasn't been too happy with how the Wolfpack has been playing), so Noah and I went together!  We had such a good time.

Jennie, Me and Megan

Noah must have missed Daddy cause he latched right on to Cory and Jason (and maybe Jason missed Ryan and Cory is getting ready for Baby Sam!).  :-)  He had so much fun "playing football" (mainly chasing and tackling) with them at the tailgate and Jason even carried him on his shoulders for a bit when we were heading into the stadium.  :-)

The boys

Silliness with Megan during the game

Noah was getting sleepy (he'd skipped nap) so I told him to lay down.  He didn't actually sleep but did rest a bit.

We lasted until about 10 minutes left in the game (we won 13-0 against UNC!).  As we were leaving I tried to take a self portrait and some nice lady offered to take our picture together.

I love this one.  :-)

Saturday evening, we got in the car to go out to eat but never made it out of the garage!  :-)  We decided it might not be worth it with everyone's attitudes.  Instead, the kids had a good easy dinner and Waylon and I ordered take out after they went to bed!  :-)

Sunday morning, Waylon made a big breakfast and we did some grocery shopping before naps.  That morning was looong because of the time change the night before.  But the kids didn't seem too affected by it so that was good.

Sunday afternoon, we went to Andrea, Sean and Savannah's for some playtime and dinner.  So fun as always!!  The kids had a great time playing dress up - I know Noah is going to kill me for these pictures one day but hey, it's his childhood!  :-)

Notice the heels.  :-)

Look at that happy face!!  :-)

The Three Stooges  :-)

Here they were pretending to be witches.  So adorable!

Another big update for the week - Kylie is potty training!  She had been showing lots of interest and staying dry for longer periods of time so we decided to give it a shot.  She's been in underwear for over a week now with lots of success with #1.  #2 is a little more slow going so it's getting a little old but her teachers are encouraging us to stick with it so we'll keep the patience and hope she gets it soon!  It's been nice not to have to deal with diapers and will be even nicer when we don't have to deal with accidents, too!!  :-)