Halloween 2012

Dave and I got home from Las Vegas on Tuesday! It was a great getaway with friends and much needed time away for Dave and myself! I'll do a seperate post on that later but for now I wanted to share our Halloween with you.

Halloween Morning we got Gavin ready and in his Costume for school! They had a Halloween Parade at 8:30 that morning and then their Halloween Party was in the afternoon!

There were some great costumes!!

Grant LOVED it!

Grant was able to wear the Giraffe costume that Gavin wore for his first Halloween! It fit Grant perfect and saved us $30+ dollars on a costume...score! Plus he rocked it!

Gavin was Spiderman this year and loved it! He instantly gets in character once he puts the costume on!

Daddy & the boys headed out to get their loot!

The boys were out for almost 2 hours!! Gavin had Halloween Homework when he got home;

Gavin had 123 pieces of candy and Grant had 133. Not sure how that happened? Dave said Grant was precious though, said 'trick or treat' in his own cute way and 'thank you' after each piece. I just want to bottle up his voice at this age and save it FOREVER!! Melts my heart.

While Dave and I were in Vegas my My amazing Sister and BIL watched the boys from Wed-Sunday Morning. They did lots of Halloween festivities that weekend including carving pumpkins!

Ya'll check out my mum!!! I'm in LOVE with it!

 A Las Vegas Post is coming!! Again, a big Thank you to my Sister, BIL, and My Parents for watching the boys for us while we were gone!

The past week - picture overload

Last Friday evening Ash & Matt came to visit for the weekend! We didn't do much, lots of relaxing & hanging out. We did check out a new Fall Farm - Creek Bed Country Farmacy. It was chilly outside, but still fun!

Sunday afternoon we had Family Pictures taken with the VV side! They turned out great, except for Grant not smiling in any pictures!

Yesterday Gavin has his first Kindergarten field trip of the year, to the Pumpkin Patch, of course!

Our September

It’s been almost 1 month since I’ve last posted on our blog! It’s been an extremely crazy month for our family with a lot going on and happening. For the first time we are on a real schedule! Gavin’s in school and loving it - It’s been a great adjustment for our family!

Grant is growing up so fast. 18-24 months is by far one of my favorite ages! In the last month he has truly become a totally different little boy! It’s Crazy. He has a favorite show now and wants to watch it continuously – It’s actually pretty cute, for the first time he actually has something that interests him, even if it is bubble guppies - Buppies, as Grant calls it!
Gavin has made some great friendships in kindergarten so far! He also had his first ‘school’ sleepover a few weeks ago – it went great! We experienced our first 'Homecoming Week' at school! The festivities were so fun for the kids - Each day was something different! Pajama Day, crazy hair day, class color day, etc... Gavin really enjoyed it, along with the Homecoming Parade!!

Gav's last soccer Game is Thursday. He really seems to love soccer and had a great season!

Here are some other pictures from this past Month;

Last time at the cottage for the year!

We attended a superhero birthday party a few weekends ago;

A few pictures from the Merrimac Ferry from Sept.8th - Grant was sleeping when we took these!

Here's to updating more regularly!!

He's a Kindergatener

As a parent I can't help but be proud! Proud that we have made it to this milestone! It may be a sad milestone, but it also makes me proud! Yesterday Dave and I took Gavin to his Kindergaten Orientation!

His teacher; Miss Hansen

 It was a little over an hour long and then we were able to bring him home with us! Until today, today was his first FULL day of Kindergarten!

He was up at the crack of dawn! Excited and ready to go. 

He was able to have breakfast with Daddy and they packed his lunch together!   

I'm so anxious to go and pick him up from school this afternoon and hear all about his day!

Grant didn't want to leave! He LOVED it there.