Halloween Weekend

Grammy and Pop Pop came in town Halloween weekend.
(Is it just me or does that seem like EONS ago?)

That Friday night Grammy and I took Brax to the Deanna Rose Farm's Halloween event.
He practiced more of his roaring.

Checking out the goats.

They gave out free ice-cold chocolate milk.
This was the best part for him!

"Ghosts" on the hill.

This was pretty amazing... it was a ring toss,
and Brax just chucked all three rings at the same time...

...and every single ring landed on a post!

Waiting for our hayride.

Inspecting a log.

Roasting marshmallows!!


Some festive pics...

Grammy being crafty for us!

The joy of the slinky.


Pumpkin carving.

Brax did not want to touch the guts.
Instead, he wanted to clean them when we were done.

Mike had to carve the little ones, they were so dense!

Ta-Dahhhh!

Grammy, Pop Pop and the kids.

Ready to Trick or Treat!

Grammy made this Dorothy outfit!
Isn't it precious?!

And the big moment...
Brax said he wanted me to paint his face!

He said, "I won't even cry!!!"

Showing Jace his ROAR!

Harper was such a good sport.

Rewind... Halloween Fun, Part 1

So yeah, it's been awhile since I've posted last. And I have, like, 4oo pictures from the past 2 weeks to share!!! So here's the first of many...

A couple weeks ago we started getting in the spirit of fall!
We decorated our holiday tree (a ficus I had in our bedroom that we will decorate for all the holidays) and decorated the entry table.

We did a little candy-corn project using a fun book called "Julius's Candy Corn" and some printables I found online. Mostly Brax just gobbled up the candy corn.

We painted a pumpkin and gave it a candy face.

We borrowed just about every Halloween book there is at our library.
They are past due.

We made (for the first time ever) cookies from scratch.
They turned out to be edible.

(Notice the outfit change. This was a 2-day process!
We baked them one day, decorated them the next.)

Brax's Halloween Party at School

Again, rewinding wayyyyy back to October...

So the morning of Brax's Halloween party didn't get off to a very good start...
He was not pleased with having his face painted like a lion.

(Yes, after I took these pictures of him being a drama queen,
I washed his face for him and he was fine. No need to pity the boy.)


I joined in on the fun and dressed up.
Brax loved it that his mom was in costume... this year.
I don't think he will think this is so cool when he's in the 6th grade...

They had a bunch of fun activities...
Dancing around...

Storytime...

Arts and crafts...

Games...

He and I both had a blast!
I am so lucky to be able to go to these things!

(He is "roaring" here.)

Icing on the cake of the day...
A Halloween card in the mail from Nana!
(Musical, of course!!)