Here are some pictures of our Halloween fun! We started off at the Wagner's house, and had a great time!! Becky and Jake have tons of "spooky" stuff the kids love! The mummy and the Halloween village are 2 of the big hits!! Then we headed over to the Barone's house, where the trick or treating commenced, and then ended at just 6:45 (it started at 6:00.) It's safe to say that our kids are still a little on the young side, for the whole door to door thing! Carter had a BLAST trying to keep up with his older buddies Jack and Carlo. And while Daddy tried to keep up with Olivia's shoes that kept falling off, Cooper was climbing out of her stroller. Next year, 2 chaperones for 4 kiddos (I was back "helping" Martina hand out candy, it turns out Jason needed WAY more help!!!)

It was a great night, and everyone was asleep by 8!!!

Pumpkin Carving!

So we did our first pumpkin carving after school today!! The kids were excited, FOR ABOUT 6 minutes. And then I was left, to finish carving 3 pumpkins without my audience! The wouldn't even touch the insides of the pumpkin, and were complaining about how the pumpkins stink, like a skunk. I am not sure they even know what a skunk smells like!

Anyhow, they had fun looking at the pumpkins when I was done, and they are excited to see them on the front porch for Halloween!!!





Here are the kids in their Halloween outfits that they wore to school today!!! Well, and the little one still in her jammies!

Tonight's movie!

It's such a cute movie, all 3 of the big kids actually sat still to watch!!! I recommend it if you haven't seen it yet!!! :)

Party!!!

We had a party this weekend for our good friends Cara and Aaron and their new little one, Christian! It was SO much fun hanging out with everyone, enjoying some GREAT food (that I DID NOT prepare) and catching up with people we don't get to see too often!

Baby Christian (as he is called by everyone here) is adorable and his parents are so fun! Carter corrected his sisters when they said it was a birthday party, Carter said, "No, it's not his birthday, he's only ZERO!!!" Yes, Christian is only 4 months old, and cute as a button, so a proper welcome was in order!!!!!

The value of money!

So we are trying to teach the kids that you have to SAVE for things that you want, instead of merely asking us for things. We both know they are a little young for this, but it's really a concept that they need to understand. So, instead of just buying them a swing set this spring, we are making them think they are saving for one! They call it their "Park" jar. We have a spot already made in our yard and every time we talk about the "park" they talk about how they are saving all their money for it! It's pretty cute, they all wanted to dump their piggie banks into the jar, they helped Jason clean out his car, all to fill this giant jar with change!!

Pumpkin Patch 2008!

We made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch for our friend Aubrey's 8th birthday! The funny thing was that is was about 85 degrees (which is oddly hot if you're not from the Midwest!) and the kids were sweltering! We saw the animals, took a hayride, had cake and ice cream and even did the corn maze! It was a blast, and Cooper even loved it! Then our friends the Kutckas came over for some pizza! The kids were in heaven!!!

Kara's Last Day!!!

Friday was our "Nanny" Kara's last day! She has been with us since April of 2006, and we will miss her very much. It really was the most sad for the twins, they don't remember what it was like before Kara became part of our family. They were 15 months old when she started with us, and they are probably the closest to her. Carter of course loves her too, but the twins and Kara have a special bond. Kara is a GREAT person, and has really become like family to us all, and her leaving puts quite the hole in our lives! But, all things come to an end, and it was time for her to move on. She's like Mary Poppins, she just left when she knew things around here were quieting down (ok, it really hasn't settled down, but remember, she started when there were 3 under 2!!!)

So, our new "helper" is Betsy, and she is a friend of Karas, so it works out really well. She isn't going to be working as much as Kara did, but she will be here to fill in the gaps so I can get my chores done, and do my running around!!! She's really great and the kids love her!!!!

We had a great celebration at Chuckie Cheese, the kids went NUTS!!!! They had not been there before, and Jason and I got a big laugh watching Annabelle, it was like she was on SPEED!!!!

Here are some pics!