Pre Halloween Festivities

We went to the Halloween cove in Collierville.  It.  Was.  Insane.  

John was bowling, so the kids and I took Mom.  Once John got home, the kids wanted go back to show him.  So off we went and they were terrified for the second time of the night.  Terrified.

Still don't understand how they got a pirate ship in the middle of their front yard. 

Brody's school was getting ready for their trunk or treat.  

Tara Oaks had Open House last Thursday.  Mason was proud to show us all of his work. 

Mason had a field trip Friday morning and Brody had a pumpkin patch at his school at the same time.  John took off Friday to go with Brody, I went with Mason.

Brody was super excited. 

It turned COLD on Friday.  Honestly, we were cold all weekend long. 

The field trip was at the Botanic Gardens.  They had the entire lawn set up with fun, learning stations.  It was a blast.  (minus the weather)

Finding candy in a haystack. 

Squeezing out juice from apples like the good ole days. 

The spider maze, of course, was the favorite among all the boys.  

The last forty minutes, they played tag in the maze with lots of friends. 

Loved spending time with him. 

All the while John was with Brody.  He got to pick out a pumpkin, play games, and read a Halloween story.  It was short and sweet, and all the kids stayed until the end of the day.  He was so proud his Daddy came. 

Mason and I left the field trip and met John at Huey's. 

School skipper. 

We had planned on going to Scare on the Square that night, but it began pouring and it was freezing.  Our neighbor called and said they were there, so I decided to just run up there with the boys real quick.  We were all soaking wet and shivering, but the kids had a blast.  They trick or treated around the square before we went inside the church to play games and warm up. 

We are Power Rangers this year.  Brody wanted to be the red dino charge one (from the tv show instead of the movies).  I guess I should have gotten him the regular red Ranger, but oh well.  

Too late now!

Inside felt much better.  

They had games, face painting, balloon animals, etc. 

We had three soccer games scheduled Saturday, but they were cancelled due to the rain the night before.   We had not planned on going to Brody's school's Trunk or Treat until then.

We brought along Teagan, aka the pink power ranger. 

It was too cold for her to give me a power ranger pose.  Ha. 

Cupcakes after the cake walk. 

We had a good time.....but again, we froze.  Like we ran to the car when we all decided it was time to go home.  We stayed nice and cozy the rest of the afternoon at our house. 

Sunday morning were family pictures.  Everyone loves to take those....

We hadn't had as much time this fall to do much fun stuff until this weekend, so we decided to do it all.  It was pumpkin carving time Sunday afternoon with cousins. 

Thats a lot of guts there Brody. 

The kids do better and better each year about doing it themselves. 

Jack O Lantern

His Harry Potter pumpkin. 

The finished products with the hard workers. 

We had one baseball game Sunday afternoon.  

The boys did well.  Mason went 5 for 5.  

Yesterday was Halloween party day for Brody.  

We decided to keep the Halloween fun going with out shirts yesterday 

Tonight is the night.  All Hallows Eve.
The boys are excited to trick or treat.
(like they need anymore candy)