Pumpkin Carving

The girls and I carved their Jack-O-Lanterns . Hallie was all into it... Reese on the other hand wouldn't touch it!! She'd say "Noooooooo Way!" I'll post some after pictures when we get the candles in them tonight for the trick or treaters.

Also, Wednesday night we went to Faith Alive at church for Family Night. Each family carved a pumpkin. Hallie did most of the work getting all the junk out, Ryan scraped the insides, I carved the face, {as ordered by Hallie} Grandma Carmel and Reese watched. Then they did the lesson by "Pumpkin Light"... it was really neat, but I couldn't hold my camera steady enough to get a great picture.

Can you believe it??!??!!?

Just so you know....


And to top it off... after the girls' gymnastics tonight it was down to $1.97!! I thought I was getting a steal this morning at $1.99! YIPEEEEEEE! I may start "topping it off" once a day :)

Girl's Day Out!

Saturday I took the girls for a Girl's Day Out! Our first stop was Creative Kid's Stuff for a Halloween party! The girls wore costumes (Hallie switched to a cheerleader for this one). "Mouse" from If You Give A Mouse A Cookie was there. (This is one of Hallie's favorite books) They had a couple craft activities... but they were just happy seeing Mouse and getting chocolate chip cookies.

Then we were off to Stella's to eat lunch and get shakes. {for those of you not from around here... they serve your shakes on your head!!) I decided to have the girls wait to get their shakes until after our lunch so they would eat... I think poor Hallie was so stressed out about getting it on her head she didn't really eat! After the shake came and the stress was over she ate her whole lunch!! :) Next time we'll just get the shakes to begin with!!

We got home and had a little Halloween slumber party... eating snacks and watching Scooby Doo!

**Ryan went to the hockey game with Nick... sorry, he didn't come home with any pictures to post! Darn guys! :) But said it was a ton of fun... they went into a shoot out, but lost. They were playing Sioux City!!