Halloween 2011

Our Halloween celebration seems to get longer every year. This year we started on Monday with a Halloween party at Tramonto park with the Hip Mamas. It was just me and Ethan but we both had a great time enjoying playing and eating with friends. Thursday morning we had a craft play date at Lionel and Everett's house and Thursday afternoon we had a blast at the DeRuiter's Halloween party. The boys decorated pumpkins, cookies, got wrapped up like mummies, danced to the Monster Mash and played games. Friday we decided to skip the Halloween party at the park and get some things accomplished at home. Saturday we headed to Cave Creek for the town's Halloween celebration and the boys were happy to have their buddy Graham and Ms. Chris join us. Sunday we went to the Deatsch's for a football/Halloween party and the boys had a blast playing football in the backyard while Ethan enjoyed chasing the chickens and petting their tortoise Jeeps. The Mings and Katzs brought their trailer over and gave us a great hayride. It was so fun! Finally Monday was the real thing - complete with dinner at the Mings, a pinata and another hayride through their neighborhood. The boys were so excited to trick or treat we couldn't keep up with them. Some of the parents stayed up with the older kids and we stayed back with the little ones. It was absolutely precious to see little Ethan trick or treat!! That was truly my treat for the night!

My Lunch Date

Yesterday was Ryan's first day of no afternoon preschool. We recently decided to have him just go to preschool in the mornings so I picked him up at 11:30 and decided I wanted to go out to lunch. Pita Jungle recently opened at Norterra and I love Pita Jungle. I used to take Tyler out to lunch all the time and I'd even take Tyler and Ryan quite a bit but the past couple years we really don't go out to lunch that much (I don't call McDonald's going out to lunch). I had such a lovely time with my little men. Ryan was really into the activity sheet they gave us and we played several games of tic tac toe. He's getting pretty good at it. Then he worked on a word search and amazed me with his intelligence in unscrambling several long words. Little E loved eating the mac and cheese in between coloring and they both picked at the fresh fruit and (veggie) burger. They were very well behaved and I was happy I decided to take a break from our normal routine and enjoy a lunch out.