Halloween

We started our Halloween festivities the weekend before Halloween by going to a party hosted by my friend Stephanie, from work. A few other work friends came and it was a lot of fun. They had a bouce house. I'm not going to lie, we kicked the kids out for 10 minutes and had some fun big kid time. We also had a pumpkin carving contest. Mine was pretty good, he hed lopsided eyes and ears...I tried to make im look like that one guy from the movie Goonies. You know who I'm talking about... "Hey...you... guys!" I wish I took a picture of it, but I didn't. Bummer. But here's some picture of my cute Little Red Riding Hood (who won the kids costume contest, might I add), friends from work, and the family. Don't ask what Dustin was for Halloween, because he didn't even know.

She didn't really like the hood, she kept trying to take it off.

Not the best picture, but the only one we took.

Cheese!

A view of her costume from the back.

Don't ask me why my face looks like its glowing; I think it's the lighting.

My work friends. Me, Krista, and Nicole. I unfortunately didn't get a picture of Stephanie, but she (and her family) were clowns.

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On Halloween day we went to Dustin's grandparent's house for a crab feed and tick-or-treating. Dustin's parents, and brother and sister-in-law, and nephews were all there. We had such good time. The kids probably had more fun answering the door for the trick-or-treaters than they did actually going trtick-or-treating. Cassidy was so funny. Whenver the door would ring, she dropped whatever was in her hands and would run to the door.

Grandpa giving Cassidy some M&M's...Cassidy was happy to oblige.

The boys had a Halloween activity the night before at church, so they didn't bring their costumes.

The Lyda grandkids

I Stuck

Cassidy's vocabulary has grown a ton in the past couple of months. It's been so great being able to communicate more with her; especially since we can understand what she's saying most of the time.

Tonight she was sitting next to me at the dining room table and all of a sudden she yells "I stuck!" Yup, her little foot got stuck on the back of the chair. It was so nice to know exactly what the matter was instead of having to look at my crying and upset baby and try to figure out what's wrong. So I was able to get her un-stuck in just a few seconds.

Crafty

My friend Jessica is super crafty and I'm just not, but kind of want to be. She told me about how she decorates pumpkins with glitter (an idea she got from Martha Stuart) and how pretty it turns out; so she invited me to do it with her this year. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the process, but it was actually a lot of fun. The only hard part is my arm and hands got so tired after a while. The pumpkins can get pretty heavy if you have to hold them by their stem for a long time.

Jessica's pumpkins

My pumpkins

And here they are on display.

Jack O'Lanterns

I haven't carved pumpkins in forever, but I insisted on us doing so this year; especially since we bought all those pumpkins when we went to Davis Ranch. One of the pumpkins was supposed to be used for making a pumpkin pie, but I wasn't really thinking and didn't get the right size (and I kind of didn't want to deal with making it from scratch this year). So both Dustin and I carved one. Dustin's is in the first picture. If you can't tell, it's winking and it's trying to lick the booger hanging out of it's nose...yup, that's my husband. The second one is mine. I know I'm not very creative, but, hey, I was proud of it.

Jumping

Last night Cassidy was jumping all over her room and it was so cute. Of course by the time I got up to get the camera, she wasn't interested in doing it anymore. I got her doing it a little bit. Enough for you to see that she kind of skips instead of jumps.

Davis Ranch

We went to Davis Ranch with our friends the Burdens a few weeks ago. They had a big festival with good food, music, pumpkins, corn mazes, hay rides, and even a farmers market. I was amazed by how many pumpkins they had there, and such a variety. The pumpkin patch we went to last year didn't have nearly as many pumpkins. It was a lot of fun especially since Cassidy was a little older and could enjoy it more; it also helped that her friend James was there too. I have to warn you, I'm going to share a lot of pictures. I don't often get a lot of good pictures of Cassidy and I'm having a hard time narrowing down which ones to post. So you're going to get a lot...

They had some HUGE pumpkins

James is such a cutie

Cassidy wasn't too excited about being amongst all the pumpkins...yes she is trying to reach for me here.

She loved trying to pull the wagon.

Jessica was trying to get pictures of the kids from one direction while I was trying coming from the other direction.

She kept hugging the pumpkins (or maybe trying to pick them up). Either way it was cute.

Don't they kind of look like they're about to kiss?

And she was still a happy girl on the way home

A Bum

Cassidy has an interesting way to say phone. She calls it a "bum". I guess the ph sound is too difficult for her. So when the phone rings, she goes running and shouts "a bum, a bum." It cracks me up.