Halloween

Jax and Maryam went as Jack and Sally. Brett went as Billy Mays. I went as Brett. Hehe

Pumpkin carving

We carved pumpkins Wednesday morning before Maryam went to school. It was lots of fun! Maryam designed her own jack-o-lantern face! Jax wanted Jack the Pumpkin King and I wanted a fire face! Good job Daddy on making all our pumpkin dreams come true! I only carved
Maryam's, Daddy did the other two.

My Maryam

Last week at school was red ribbon week. There was a theme for everyday. Maryam participated everyday! Her favorite day was Friday, Crazy Hair Day! I sprayed her hair pink w/glitter and sprayed Jax's hair orange w/glitter. He doesn't go to school, but he participated with his sissy. :)
On Thursday the PTO had an ice cream social. So I took the kids to get some ice cream. It coincided with the book fair. So each of them picked out a few books too!
This week Maryam has been wearing Halloween clothes everyday. Today is Literature Celebration Day. She got to dress up as a character from her favorite book. She chose Olivia from Olivia and her Ducklings. She looks adorable in the costume.

Fall Festival

Friday night, Momom, Popop, Brett and I took the kids to the Fall Festival on the Marine Base. They dressed up in their costumes and had a great time. They rode on horses, hit up a petting zoo, did a potato sack race, cupcake walk, bounce house, "train" ride, and slap shot booth.
We left because it got cold, they did everything they wanted to do and we ran out of tickets. ;) Good times though!

Halloween Crafts

My children LOVE crafts! Maryam's favorite holiday craft is decorating little pumpkins. Her love for this has been spread to Jax. This year, M decorated her pumpkin like Jack the Pumpkin King. She even included a crown. :)
The other night I made these little night lights while they painted pumpkins. I decoupaged Ball mason jars w/orange tissue paper, cut the shaped for the faces from construction paper, and got LED votives from Dollar Tree. Voila.
I found the finger puppets at Target in the $1 section. I also found the color-your-own Halloween placemats at Target too! Good, CHEAP, fun.

Pumpkin Patch 2012

Brett and I took the children to the pumpkin patch in Yucaipa on Friday. We had SO much fun!! First we went out into the pumpkin patch and picked our pumpkins right from the vine. Each of us picked our own pumpkin and we're all very happy with our finds. The kids love riding in the wagon with the pumpkins!
After we found our pumpkins and Daddy took them to the car, Mommy picked out little pumpkins, gourds and Indian corn for crafts w/the children and our Thanksgiving Center Piece. That was fun! I let each kid pick out a few pumpkins for them to paint and glitter. That's probably Maryam's favorite fall craft!
After picking out the gourds we headed over to the bounce houses, slides and quads.