HALLOWEEN!

Another tradition carried on! I love that our kids know what we do on Halloween without asking and look forward to it. We went over to the Parrys house and had soups, chicken nuggets, drinks, etc and then all went trick-or-treating. This year RJ and Alyza joined us. This year Emma and Maddie ditched us. This year the kids ran up to a lot of houses by themselves and we could just stand there while they hit up several houses in a row - while it was quite nice to be so lazy - it was also sad realizing our fast our kids are growing up and that sucks!

Emma had the opportunity with DC2 - to go around the valley and do a couple of "Thriller" flash mobs. She loved her costume (I found the perfect dress at Goodwill and Tiffany and I zombiefied it) and had fun getting ready with Tatum each time and doing her creepy makeup.

Intel had a party for employees and their families. We didn't get to spend much time at it, but the kids loved it and especially loved the zip line!

We did our traditional pumpkin purchasing at the pumpkin patch and then carved the pumpkins together! We love that the kids are getting older and after I help scrape out the inside and Jared helps trace their carvings they can carve it all themselves! Tyler may have had a small melt down when his pumpkin didn't turn out the right way - we blame Jared for not tracing it correctly - I can not stand to see that sweet boy cry - right before I was about to run to the store for another pumpkin - we decided to carve the word "boo" in the back and all the kids were super excited for his pumpkin because it had two carvings on it - ha ha!

Jared and I went and helped out at the school's Apex Fun Run - the boys love it when we come. We also made monsters out of rice krispy treats this year!