Annual Halloween Party

This last weekend was our Annual Halloween Party--and boy did we party down! We had both sides of the family come up for the day so we had a house load of kids running around.
The first thing we did was a Treasure Hunt for the kids. I told them I had found an old Pirate Treasure Map in the basement and that the house used to be the hideout for the Pirates of Bear Lake and that they had hidden their treasure somewhere in the yard.
So we used the clues on the map to find the treasure. Funny thing is, those pirates sure did like toys, because that was all that they hidden!!

Here is a picture of the kids holding up their treasures! Olivia is in the blue, and she wasn't too excited about the mermaid doll, I guess these kids grow up too fast. Hunter, dressed up like Indiana Jones and Ryan both got Pirates and soon after they were playing and playing with them.

Then it was time to carve the pumpkins!

There were enough pumpkins for just about everyone to carve their own. We had some classics and some fancy ones. There was even a dinosaur jack o' lantern!
Then we had some homemade root beer, and it looked just like a witch's brew!






After we downed some root beer and carved the pumpkins, we headed off to the Little Bear Bottoms Corn Maze in Wellsville.








The kids liked the haystack more than the mazes, and we did have to cheat to get out of the maze in time to pick up the pizza we ordered.
But all in all, we had a fun time, especially on the Haunted Hay Ride.
After that we went back to the house, ate some pizza and drank more root beer. We roasted pumpkins seeds, had cupcakes with black frosting (the kids got really messy) and we watched scary movies. It was 10:30pm by the time the party wrapped up.
Owen was ready for bed, and we were ready to clean up and do it all again next year!

Four Year Anniversary

This weekend we celebrated our four year Wedding Anniversary. Grandma Nash and Aunt Chelsea came up to Logan to baby-sit Owen while Mommy and Dad had a much needed night away at the Anniversary Inn.

In this picture owen is playing on the floor with Grandma wearing his new winter hat that Aunt Chelsea made for him.

Owen really likes rolling around on the floor and playing with his toys.

We pulled out some of the millions of toys Owen has and it was almost as good as Christmas morning. Lily liked the toys almost as much as Owen as she has chewed several of them already. So not only do we have to make a concerted effort to keep the binky away form, now we had to keep the toys away from now, too.








Here is a picture of the "Arctic Journey" room we stayed in at the Anniversary Inn. It wasn't the biggest room-the bed got in the way of the door when you walked in, but it was the best room we could afford. The tub was nice, though. Here's to four and many more...

Grandma and Owen had too much fun this weekend. She fed him pears and cereal and seemed to get everywhere in the kitchen except in his mouth. Grandma and Owen were wearing pears and cereal for the rest of the weekend.

We all had a great weekend and we are all looking forward to our big Halloween party next week!