The Sweetest Halloween!!

 We have had A LOT of fun this October!! Besides having lots of visitors, we were able to have some super fun Halloween adventures :)!! Ryan, the kids and I attended the "Hot Dogs for Heroes" event at Jane's school.  We were able to watch "It's the great Pumpkin Charlies Brown" while eating a hot dog picnic outside.  It was chilly but such a lovely night!!  The school put it on for the kids to honor the heroes in their lives :) So sweet!!

 Of course we attended the annual Dover 1st Ward trunk or treat!!  I love doing this every year.  Jane was the cutest Strawberry Shortcake ever...

 And Beckham was the coolest Batman!!!

 Our trunk was a giant spider web this year and I was the spider's dinner...yikes!!!

 There were Halloween games and snacks as well as trunk or treating!!

 Jane had a school assignment to make a character pumpkin.  We had a lot of fun with this assignment :) Can you guess who Jane's pumpkin is??

 Beckham made a CRAZY pumpkin man too!!

 And Halloween night was especially wonderful this year!!! The kids got to go trick-or-treating with two special people this year!!  One was daddy!!!  Last year he was gone to a training on Halloween.

 And Grandpa came to visit us this year for Halloween!!! The kids had a BLAST with him!!

 And the night ended with what is sure to be a very fond memory for me:)!!  Our best Dover friends and neighbors all came out to sit on the side walk with us while we handed out our candy to trick-or-treaters as all the kids, in their darling costumes, munched on their goodies and ran around scaring and chasing each other!!!

We had just the best October and Halloween ever!!  Oh, and if you couldn't guess...Jane's school pumpkin was Fancy Nancy!!! :) 

Ryan's Adventures With His Sisters!!

      We were so excited when we heard that two of Ryan's three sisters were going to visit us in Delaware!! For Ryan's sister, Angie, this was her first time on the East coast!! So Ryan and his two sisters, Angie and Jillyn planned lots of East coast adventures for while they were here :) I mostly stayed with the kids at home while they traveled around resulting in a terrible lacking of pictures...thanks to Ryan who puts much less emphasis pictoral documentation than I do :) However, I did get several really nice pictures...

Here we are at our favorite restaraunt in Delaware, Cantwell's Tavern!! 

 

 Here are my lovely sisters-in-law saying their last goodbyes to Jane and Beckham...my kids were so sad to have their super fun aunts leave :(

 I MADE Ryan promise to take some pictures of New York while they were there. So, I got a few good ones at least. They got to go see the Statue of Liberty which sounded awesome!!

 The view from on top...

Though I don't have any pictures of it, Ryan and his sisters also went many other places in New York, they even saw the broadway, Wicked!! They also went to Philly and spent a lot of time in DC.  The kids and I had so much fun when we were able to see Aunt Angie and Jillyn!!  They were so sweet, and gave Jane and Beckham a lot of attention!! My kids were pretty torn up when they had to leave :(

Thank you Angie and Jillyn for coming to little ol' Delaware to visit us!! We had so much fun and hope to see you again soon :)!!

There are so MANY good things about Fall!!!

 As a grand finale to our "F" Week, Beckham, Jane and I went to Fifer Farms' Fall Festival!!!  The kids look forward to this every year!!  They have so much fun :) It was a beautiful 90 degree fall day (crazy Delaware weather!!).

The huge slide is a favorite...if Ryan were there he would have been going down too!!

 Beckham's favorite was the duck racing game.

 Although, Jane and Beckham did do this zip line about 10 times each.  So perhaps this should win the prize for favorite ride.  In fact, I am pretty sure that someday when I have a yard of my own...a zip line will have to be part of it, somehow!!

 And of course, the kids got to paint their pumpkins!!

 The kids also played in the huge corn pit:)

 This weekend was super great because it was conference weekend!!  I LOVE conference weekend.  On Saturday, it was Rider Pride Day for Jane's school district and Jane had a performance there, so we had to make an appearance!!  Luckily, conference doesn't start until  noon on the east coast so it worked out perfectly!!

Jane and Beckham got to eat free blue Italian ice!!  Yum!! We also got free lunch, prizes and treats!!  It really was a huge affair and alot of fun!!

 We played games too :)

 But, the highlight of the day was Jane's performance!!  It was darling!!

 And Jane fell down once...this picture caught her right in the act-hehe!!  Oh my sweet Jane :)

 We even made it home in time to watch Conference!!  It was wonderful.

I love Fall and am so thankful for the Fall fun we get to have as a family :)

Week E & F!!!

School with Beckham rolls onward and we have just completed weeks E and F!!  For F week we made faces with play dough!!

Here is the face I made...

Beckham's face was much cooler, I think!!  He even gave his guy whiskers :)

He colored some fish with glitter glue.  Since he loves glue of all kinds, this was a hit.  And I think it turned out beautiful!!!

Beckham got a Frozen drink!!

We read an interactive story about a colorful little fish...

We made a feather hat!!

He painted a sun catcher of a Flying air balloon!

And of course we worked in his work book :) He is getting so good at these work book activities!!

He did a special food puzzle all on his own!!

And of course he mastered writing his letters F and E!!

E week was a little more challenging to find fun things to do.  But we managed to find some fun things to do...  We made an elephant mask.  He looks a little freaky...

We dyed Eggs.

They turned out so good!!

And we had a really fun Easter Egg hunt!! Each egg had a healthy snack inside!!

As a final "hoo rah" for F week.  We went to Fifer Farms Fall Festival and had  blast!!!  Pictures of that to come later!!!  We love fall and we are loving school...Jane and Beckham both!!