Saturday, October 31, 2009

halloween, round one...

halloween day was quite busy around the richards' household.....not that we would have it any other way :)

we started the morning with grant's fall festival at his school....i would like to introduce miss fancy nancy & the fire chief....



cake walk, bean bag toss, ring toss, golf game, treasure hunt, face painting, tatoos, bouncy house & snacks.....whew, a very fun morning!





each year the classes decorate pumpkins to get *voted* on.....this picture may not do them justice but they were absolutely a.dor.able!!!


round two...

after grant's fall festival we met the *girly cousins* for a little chick-fil-a lunch and then headed back to the house to enjoy the wet yucky day....let's see when you have 2 five year olds, one 7 year old & 1 two year old confined to my itty bitty house, it's time to get creative!!

we let the kids play by themselves as long as they would.....then i enlisted the help of my awesome sister (who is about to graduate with her early childhood education degree~whooohoo!!!) and we set up our own halloween centers....first we painted mini-pumpkins...




lisa and i had to get in on the action a little too :)

next was story time with grams.....she read as many halloween books as she could.....

then we had snack time and moved on to another art project......painting a halloween picture......

a little more playtime and then after a dinner of chili & hotdogs to fill us up, the fun really began.....getting everyone dressed and ready to go trick or treating!

round three....

here they are......cowgirl, fancy nancy, hanna montana & the fire chief...


(payton & keiven were enjoying a little man time....in indiana at a pacers game and a colts game!!!)



and they're off....







grant's short little legs just couldn't keep up.....brett ended up carrying him to every other house! i don't think he really cared, he had his one lollipop and he was quite content :)

piled in the back of uncle mike's truck.....munching on some candy!

this was the first year we all trick-or-treater together.....so much fun! the girls had an absolute blast :) we definitely missed payton & uncle keiven but i think payton was having the time of his life ~ he even got larry bird's autograph!!


carvin' em up...

to conclude our fun-filled friday we carved up some punkins!

audrey decided it would be boys against girls in our *carving contest*...




not too shabby......i loved seeing their faces when they pulled out the guts & i loved all the pumpkin seeds i roasted.....yum-o!



i hope everyone had a wonderful halloween!!....pics from our busy, fun-filled day coming soon...

mystery reader...again...

miss fiona's stupendous pumpkin pies......my story of choice for audrey's class on friday...

after story time the kids were doing halloween centers....lots of fun!!


decorating a personal sized pumpkin


learning about spiders & making their own edible spider

getting mummified!

decorating & eating a yummy cookie & some good ol' witch's brew



best of all.....the kindergarten costume parade.....absolutely adorable





i loved being at audrey's school and being able to help out......it was so much fun to get dressed up too :)