Spooky Dinner, Pumpkins, and Beach Sunsets

We had a great Halloween filled weekend. The boys had some fun at a little festival they had going on in our neighborhood.

Brayden, for some reason, told his whole kindergarten class that he was having a halloween party this year at his house.  Ya, he forgot to mention that to me before telling them...kids are so funny! Not really in my plans being soo pregnant, but we compromised and had a little family one. We had a spooky dinner with mummy hot dogs, bones and blood breadsticks, pumpkin applesauce (just dyed orange with food coloring), and frankenstein pudding. Not very fancy or filling, but the kids really liked it. I take no credit for these ideas...all from pintrest, gotta love it!

The boys made skeletons out of Q-tips for a craft. Tyler's is the top one and Brayden did the bottom one.

We carved our pumpkins for the year

Pumpkin guts...love Brayden's face in this one

Silly Brayden scooped his out one seed at a time...Guy eventually helped him out so we could finally start carving!

The boys had fun drawing on them first with markers

Here they are all done! We made a baby one for the new baby coming soon :)

And we decided to end our weekend by heading to the beach on Sunday night to watch the sunset. It was gorgeous, like always.  Super windy by the ocean so Tyler wouldn't get out from under the towel on my lap, but Brayden had fun running around with Guy.  We don't really get the changing colors of fall leaves here, but at least we get to see the colors in the sky, right? :) The perfect weather time of year in Florida is finally beginning and I love it!

And I figured I better post a picture from the weekend to prove I actually am pregnant and about to pop. I felt really dorky posing by myself so I made the kids join me. Hopefully this baby will be here soon (3 cm and 75% at 38 weeks, so I'm hoping!) But I want a November baby for the birthday since it's 11/11 this year...wouldn't 11/11/11 be such a cool birthday? Past my due date, but I could settle for the 1st. Just not Halloween please!!! :)

Last Trip to Disney

Our Disney passes officially expired on Saturday so we took one last trip to Magic Kingdom. Crazy to think it really has been a whole year already!  I'm sad we won't be able to go anymore since I seriously love Disney as much as the kids, but I am so grateful we were able to go so much and for all the fun memories :) 

 It was so cute because they had it all decorated for Halloween...wow, it's crazy it's almost October already!

 One of Brayden's favorites...driving the cars!

 Seriously I think Jessie is just freaky looking...why can't she have a neck?

Special ice cream treat for our last trip...we usually never buy anything in the parks. They were excited! Mint chocolate chip is our whole family's favorite kind!

Brayden's favorite pumpkin decoration

The pumpkin mickey's on all the light posts were mine

Splash Mountain is Brayden's absolute favorite ride at MK. I could always tell when Guy and him were coming down because Guy would purposely scream as loud and annoying as he could on the drop.  Pretty funny

Ty is just happy on the monorail leaving the park...who needs to even go inside when you get to ride a train thing to get there!

And these are just some of BB's latest lego creations.  Pretty clever :)

Beachy Weekend

We spent our last weekend before school at the beach. Tyler has been constantly begging us to go to the beach for weeks now (every time we get in the car) so we knew we needed to get a trip in.  Guy's friend that he works with let us stay in his condo again near Clearwater and it was wonderful.  Seriously it was the perfect trip because a) it was completely free, yet it felt like we were staying in a nice hotel b) it's only about 30 minutes from our house c) giant sandbox for kids= total relaxation for us d) private beach means no crazy crowds of people which is my favorite part.  His place is on the 17th floor and that equals some amazing views of the ocean. Honestly there is nothing better then waking up, going out to the balcony, and looking out over endless blue. It's breathtaking! Anyway, we had some fun and it was nice to feel like we got away for a night before the school schedule began.

I definitely think we have taken for granted having the ocean so close to us while we've been here.  I know we'll miss it if/when we move, but I'm ready for a change too.  Maybe a place that actually has seasons for once?? (my kids have never even owned a real winter coat!) We shall see :)

Saturday Fun

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