Two big changes happened this week. First Nolan said good bye to the crib/toddler bed. We've only been waiting for his new bed to come since June! He was so excited to find out he was going to have a bed like his brothers.
We are thankful Finley wanted to change out his room and passed on his firetruck bedding to us. Nolan loves his room. In his words he keeps saying "This is so awesome…."
The 2nd big change was trading in my old mini van for a brand new mini van! My van was in need of a lot of work so we decided it was time to just trade it in.
Wanna know what it's like riding in the van through the eyes of the boys? I have hopes that the boys will help in keeping this car clean but looking at the pictures I have a few doubts. That's a Nolan foot wearing a pair of shoes that are 3 sizes to big but he refuses to take them off.
Grandma Julie and Grandpa John sent Halloween bags….
We carved our pumpkins...
No fancy faces for us or cartoon character. We decided to go the old fashion route and allow the boys to draw or tell us what they wanted. I think it made them even more proud of their pumpkins.
Spencer had his last football game (Easton missed out on his. He learned the hard way that bad behavior during the day means no sports in the evening). This picture is of Spencer scoring a touch down but it's under review if it counts because as his foot went down a kid grabbed his flag right before he crossed the goal line!
If you know Ryan you know he can't start his day without Caribou. We had a new location open this week and they had a promotion going on that the first 100 customers in line by 5:30 am would win 1 free coffee a week for a year.
Ryan decided to try for it. So he waited in this line….
In freezing cold temps…. for an hour and 20 minutes!
But how lucky was he? He was number 100 in line and got the last wrist band to win free coffee!
Sometimes I wonder why I bother. This was one of those days. I decided to take the boys with me for a quick Target run. After I had my cart 1/2 full Easton told me had to go to the bathroom. He took off for the men's room knowing I couldn't go in there with him. I hate that they have figured this out. I could hear him singing and talking at the top of his lungs through the door. There was nothing I could do. After about 5 minutes he came out with his pants at his knees telling me he needed help wiping. Our fun trip continued as these two fought/got stuck underneath the cart. People smiled and laughed as we past by and I did all that I could to just keep my cool.
Girls have baby dolls but Nolan has Teddy that he loves. He takes very good care of his Teddy. This day he asked me to hold his Teddy cause he was sad and wanted me to cover him up cause he also thought he was cold.
Easton asked me to take his picture...
Our Halloween festivities started out with a party at the boy's preschool. They were allowed to wear their costumes to school in the morning.
Easton went as Peter Pan!
Nolan was Captain Hook
My hope was to have someone dress as the alligator but Spencer had a different plan. Oh well these two sure are cute together!
Nolan was the special helper that day at school.
I enjoyed helping out with Nolan's classroom party.
There are only 3 boys in Nolan's class.
I was also able to sneak down to Easton's classroom.
Easton's class and teacher.
Nolan's class and teacher.
The boys woke up to their pumpkin bags full of treats.
Eating a sucker at 8:30 am is only ok on Halloween.
I was also able to attend Spencer's classroom party.
Heres a flashback to the boys past Halloween costumes...
Here they are this year. Captain Hook, Peter Pan and a Ninja. Sadly this is the only real picture I got of them all night.
We didn't have a Halloween party this year but instead invited our friends/neighbors over to eat before trick or treating. We also had some fun games set up for the kids.
Spencer broke it open!
This is the only picture I got of them trick or treating. We were making the older boys wait for the little boys to catch up.
Amanda and I took off with the older boys and waited for them at the end of each cul de sac.
One would think the temps are warm up here by the way our kids dress but they're not! It's been chilly. The boys got to play with their silly string.
They had Halloween cookies for a treat.
Saturday we went to an adult Halloween party. Amanda and I went as social butterflies. Thanks to my mom for making our costumes.
Ryan and Chris went as hashtag and twitter.
There were lots of great costumes.
On Sunday the boys got to sing in church for their preschool. You can't really see them in this picture.
This is what you get when you live on a street of all boys!
Well my boys have already moved on from Halloween and are already thinking about Christmas. Easton had me snap a picture every time he sees something he wants to add to his list. He took this picture.
