Halloween Snow Day Party

Ali has been planning the Girl Scout Halloween party for weeks now.  I let her plan all the decorating, menu and crafts.  She also had this fun idea after watching a video her Aunt Dondi made her cousin Jaden  a laser obstacle with tape. 

First here are a few cute picture of Ali in her costume with my red rain boots.

Ali had lot of ideas for a Halloween banner after she found bat stickers at Walmart.   She asked me to pull up a drawing tutorial for pumpkins for her banner.  She worked hard all day Saturday.  

All the Girl Scouts were encouraged to bring a fun treat to share.  Caroline & Ali made Pumpkin bars.  The first batch was used to "Boo" Nana and Papaw.  Both girls loved the recipe and ask we make it for the party.  Ali saw the pretzels eyeball snack  on Disney channel App and wanted to make it for the party.

 I was asked very nicely to make hot chocolate for the party. I put chocolate milk from a carton in the crockpot on warm.  Ali said I was such a good cook! (HA!)

Here is her banner

Here are all her bats

Tuesday morning we woke up to school being closed because the roads were icy so we sadly decided to cancel the Girl Scout Halloween party.  Ali and Caroline still wanted to have the party so I called our neighbor who lives behind us and they were still up for coming. So Tuesday morning we made a "laser haunted house"

Ali really wanted to use glow stick because she said it looked scarier. (She just LOVES glow sticks)

It was so fun!

Nana and Papaw gave the girls cupcake mix and frosting.  I'm glad they did so we could make cupcakes.

Ali put the final touches.

Ready for the Party!

Devyn, Deacon, Caroline and Ali started with Laser Haunted house.  They played in the basement for a long time.  They all moved the streamers around to make it harder.  Deacon kept running through the streamers making it really easy for him.

Then they were ready to craft: They painted pumpkins and painted haunted houses

Devyn brought donut spiders.  There was A LOT of sugar at this party.

It was a fun party. 

Halloween Party

We are not sure what Halloween will look like this year but I'm so glad we were able to wear costumes.  Lane really wanted a halloween birthday party so on Saturday so Nana decorated for a Halloween birthday party.

Ali calls this Nana's party room.

All the cousins dressed up:

Caroline- Hermione from Harry Potter

Lauren- Mal from Descendants 

Ali- Mermaid

Lane- Alien 

Leah- Starbuck's barista 

Kaden Not pictured- pirate 

Nana dressed up as a monkey 

Family picture

My grandmother gave me this Fred and Wilma costume when she was cleaning out her closet.   The kids didn't know who the Flintstones were. Ali thought I was dressed up as an angel.

Nana put together a really fun scavenger hunt.  It was great party.

Cousin playing with Kaden:

The kids love to play with Kaden.

Caroline and Leah are "talking" with Kaden

Ali and Lauren are playing freeze dance with Kaden

This Week: 

Caroline started barrel racing patterns.  She is getting really confident on the horse.  

 School Pictures came in and I may I say Ali looks like she got a spray tan.  Also she had a bow in her hair that was lost sometime between 8:00 & 8:25 when she took her picture.  

Caroline smiles like I do.  

and then there is this face......

Today is my 36th birthday:

It was great day!  

• Chris brought me J&B 
• the office staff and principals provided Dions 
• Got tons of cards from students
• Chris got & put up a flag holder by the front door for my American and Texas Tech flag. 
• I took the girls to vote with me
• We had Abuelos for dinner- take out- that place has the best tortilla soup!
• The girls and I made s'mores for birthday cake.
• Tons of Calls and texts from my friends and family

Corn Maze

Tonight we went to the Corn Maze for Girl Scout night.  It was crowded for a Thursday but the kids had a great time.  Chris took Caroline through the really hard maze & I took Ali to through the Fairy Tale maze.  

She was more interested in getting corn for the goats then reading the story.

Her favorite part was feeding the goats

She even started pulling corn pieces off and hand feeding them

Hayride to the pumpkin patch. 

 The girls were instructed they could have any pumpkin they could carry.

Here is a good one

"Look mom I can carry this one!" 

We have reached the phase with weird pictures

Ali has discovered bunny ears and she thinks it is hilarious! 

On the way back there was a jack o lantern trail.  We usually leave before dark so this was a special treat. 

S'mores! 

The girl scouts had someone making these instead of the girls roasting their own marshmallows.  

They still tasted good!

Weird picture posing with corn

They asked if they could have one more cow train ride- Caroline called it the Haunted Cow train

Exactly 4 years ago we apparently went to the Corn Maze.  Pictures below show how close Ali was willing to get the goats 

Much smaller pumpkin that she could carry & Nana and Papaw came with us.