My 36th Birthday

It's official I'm getting into my late 30's I guess.  I sure don't feel like it! I was talking to my dad the other day and I told him that I still feel like I'm 18 and said that never chages he still feels like he is too.  I guess that's a good thing.  I had a wonderful day!!

The kids woke me up with breakfast in bed with my favorite, a waffle with nutella and berries.  My first gift of the day was Spencer making breakfast and packing the kids lunches for me, oh what a treat that was!

Right after breakfast the kids wanted to go straight into opening gifts.  They each made me a special card and picked me out beautiful jewelry.

 They also got me a beautiful jacket and sweater.

 and Spencer super surprised me with a new iphone 7!!! 

 I was very excited.

I am one spoiled mama! After opening gifts it was time to get ready for school.  The kids were devastated that they couldn't stay home on my birthday.  It was like pulling teeth to get them to go.  It was cute that they wanted to stay with me but I was really looking forward to some mommy time with my mom that day.  After I dropped them off I did my run and then got ready for my mom to come over.  We had a yummy lunch at Panera Bread (my all time favorite lunch place!) and then did some fun shopping. 

We surprised the kids and picked them up early from school and went to Yougurtlicious.

Then we said good bye to Nana and hung out until Spencer got off work.  He came home with the most beautiful cake.  My favorite is white bakery cake so I was in heaven! We had cake before dinner just because we could since it was my birthday!

After cake we went to dinner at Five Guys.

So yummy!

Then we went to the movie Trolls, which was the cutest movie!!!

After the movie we went to Best Buy to pick out a case for my new phone and then came home for more cake.  It was an amazing day!!!!

Halloween 2016

So much build up to such a fun holiday!! October 31st was finally here!! The kids looked so cute in their shirts that Nana and Titi got for them.

On the menu for breakfast.... orange Jack o Lanterns.

 Since Carter's big school party was on Friday I got to spend the afternoon in Aubrey's class.  I brought Halloween cookies and the aid brought cupcakes so they were all sugared up!

 We did candy corn experiments and built a tower with candy pumpkins and tooth picks. 

 It was a pretty low key party which was nice.  Carter got to do some more monster stuff like make a mask and learn the Monster Mash.

 After school I thought it would be fun to take the kids to the pumpkin patch.  We first went to Hunter farms since they had a huge pillow to jump on and when we went earlier that month it was closed because of weather.  When we drove all the way out it was already closed for the season! So we decided to go out to the Vista I was excited since we hadn't had a chance to go there this season yet.  It is so beautiful out there!! 

 Then out of the blue a car drove up and it was the Brown family! Aubrey's best friend Kendall.

 Aubrey was in heaven seeing her friend! It was nice for me to see her mom and dad too.  We ended spending the afternoon with them playing games, doing the corn maze and just having fun.  It was a great treat!

After lots of running around we raced home to get all dressed up for a night of Trick or Treating. 

 It was $3 burritos at Chipotle if you had your costume on so that was our first  stop before going door to door.

 Since we don't get many trick or treaters in our neighborhood we usually go to another area and trick or treat.  We found a great neighborhood and had fun.  At one point we found it easier for Spencer and I to stay in the car and follow the kids running down the street but we felt kind of lazy so we stopped doing that, haha.

 When we were all finished we drove into our area and were excited to see some trick or treaters as we rushed to park and get in we noticed they were teenagers and that they had kicked our pumpkins in! Our excitement quickly turned to anger! I hate when kids do that kind of stuff!! Especially to an 8 and 6 year old that worked the night before for hours on their pumpkins.  Oh well we tried to not let that bother us and we started sorting our candy.  They got so much!!

 It was a great, busy, exciting, fun day!

Carving our Pumpkins

The kids carved their pumpkins on Sunday the 30th.  They did such a great job! I was impressed that they almost all the gutting of the pumpkin.  Usually they are super grossed out but not this time they went for it and did a great job.

They were also really into using the knives (ahhhh!) too.  They did a really good job.

 The kids decided to do a detailed side and then a more jack o lantern side on the other side.  Spencer and I helped with the detailed side.  Carter did a spider and Aubrey did a ghost family.  They came out really cute.  They were so proud!

 Aubrey and I looked cute in our Halloween church outfits earlier that day.

Carter's story on carving a pumpkin