Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Well, hello....

We have not done much....this seems like a pattern. Ha! Our library is closed this whole week and Olivia's little program is over for now. Then they will be back the first two weeks in Dec and then back again in Feb. Sigh. We put up our Christmas tree and hopefully get our outside lights up soon. Um....things are starting to break on us again...big surprise there. Friday night after Andrew got home from work we were standing in the kitchen talking and all of a sudden a HUGE bang and our garage door was shaking! Cripes! Well, Andrew ran out front and there wasn't anything there. We went to open our garage door and it opens up about a foot and stops. We inspected everything that would cause it to just stop. Then we noticed the springs at the top broke....reason for the loud bang. Awesome. So, right when the weather gets to 20 degrees we can't park in the garage. Its so awesome. Well, Monday we started our car before taking Hayden to school and apparently a cat had made under our hood its bed for the night. Andrew heard a lot of meowing and then basically sounding like our engine was about to fall out of our car. (He was pretty sure he was going to find a mangled cat under our hood...he did not, we have no idea where the cat went) Anyways, the cat had knocked off our timing belt. Again, awesome. Lucky we live in the day and age of google and we got it fixed without it costing us an arm and a leg. That is seriously all the excitement going on around here.
 We watch our nephew, Ashby, every Wednesday after school. Hayden counts down the days until we pick up Ashby. I told the boys I wanted a picture of them and this is what they did. :)

 Could he be any taller?!

 Hayden climbing the dog pen and asking for a picture. This kid ALWAYS wants his picture taken.
 Sweet girl.
 They took turns pushing each other...but honestly, I really took this picture to get the full effect of all the gold leaves in our backyard!


They raced multiple times around the yard just laughing.
That's all the pictures I got this week. We did have all the cousins over for movie night...we do movie night every Saturday and thought it would be fun to have all the kids over. And boy was it fun! Kids all cozy in their pjs, laying calmly watching a movie like sweet little kids......oh wait...that totally wasn't our kids. Ha!! But they were all very good. We will try to have them over on movie night as much as we can. We enjoy having them all over and I have to tell you...if you've never met Hayzie Wayzie McKelvain...then you are missing out! We don't have anything going on this week but next is the Lighting of the Square. I'm looking forward to taking the kids. And then we will go back on Sunday so Andrew can go.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Halloween!

We had a fun Halloween week. Hayden had DARE all week at school and on Thursday they got to dress up as their favorite book character and had a parade throughout their school. Cutest. Thing. Ever. I love his school and all the fun stuff they do there. I forgot my camera but my friend took pictures and will be emailing me those pictures sometime. He then had a Halloween party that same day...me and two other moms were in charge of it and I have to say.....for first timers it was a pretty fun party! 

 Hayden's good friend Alec. Another parent decided cupcakes with icing that looked like pure dye was a good idea...Ha! Hayden had a few bites of the icing and was done. Totally don't blame him!

My sweet Spider Man. We had trouble with a book character costume for this one. He mostly only reads non fiction books. Luckily, we did have this dress up Spider Man costume and Alec has about 10 Spider Man masks and let us borrow one....so it all worked out.  :)

On Tuesday our Library had a thing where all the kids came dressed up. They had a craft, snack and played Hotel Transylvania. (Have I mentioned how much we adore our library?) We don't like to pay for a lot of things...especially with a family of 4 most things would cost us at least $40 and we are CHEAP! Lol. So, as much as our library does (and is free) we are so very grateful and take full advantage of letting our kids do fun things and not spend money. Win. Win. :) 
Olivia was Cruella Deville this year. She at least got to wear this outfit to the Library dress up and was the most favorite costume there. Score! BUT, when we got home from the library the kids were playing outside (who cares if it is cold and rainy...they don't!) and she was riding around on her plasma car and the bottom half of the tutu got all caught up in the wheel. Let's just say, that costume was done. I don't have a picture of Hayden in a costume because he didn't get to wear one. He had Odyssey of the Mind practice and got out at 430, the library thing started at 4, so we just went straight there because Alec and his family were waiting on us.
 This is his costume. Captain Iron Spider Man. Who says you can't be three awesome heroes! We were on our way to my friend's Halloween party and to go Trick or Treating. We got all the way to Bentonville, looked in the backseat and Hayden was fast asleep. Poor kiddo. We did not trick or treat and I have to say the next morning...no tears, nothing. They could have cared less.
Olivia loves this picture...she says she looks like a "Jombie". 
 This was Hayden's costume. We worked really hard on it and he was so excited to be Minecraft Steve. But after we did all that work (Andrew cut out the sword and I taped the paint swatches to it and Andrew did the whole Steve head) we could not figure out how to get it to stay on his head. We were unaware that the price of foam is absolutely ridiculous. So, he went as Captain Iron Spider Man and couldn't have been happier. :)
 We made some fun Halloween cookies.
This thing is the best invention there ever was. Every weekend we do a family movie night. Kids love it and really look forward to it. They pick out their movie (from their own collection, usually) set up on the floor and we make popcorn. Microwave popcorn is SO expensive....I found this awesome gadget, practically brand new at a garage sale for $1!!! It is called the Whirley Pop in case you might want some awesome stovetop popcorn. :) 
It is unusual that I do a post...well, at all...but especially on a Saturday. But after church, photo shoot and hopefully getting our yard in order I will not have time for a blog post. And I am trying to keep pace. :)