Halloween 2014

Sick of Halloween pictures yet? So sorry but here's more.  Halloween was extra special this year for two major reason. First, Brian's been gone the last 2 October's and he was actually home this year which was amazing! This was the first time he's been able to celebrate Halloween with Layla and see her get all dressed up in her costume and go trick or treating. And the second reason was because Nana and Papa were here got to partake in all of the fun!

Thursday morning we had Brady's preschool Halloween parade. Loved seeing all of the cute kids in their costumes!

Oh yeah and this princess just HAD to wear her costume too. She was like that annoying girlfriend in the crowd. "Brady! Brady! I'm here! Hi, Brady! Hi!! I see you!! Brady, smile! Hi, Brady!"

Friday morning, actual Halloween, we started the day out with pumpkin and ghost (not pictured) chocolate chip pancakes..yum!

Then we headed to a local pumpkin patch. 

And it was FREEZING!  I think the windchill was in the low 30's. Lovely planning on my part.

But we found some awesome pumpkins!

And Halloween wouldn't be complete without lunch at Chick-Fil-A

Brian got home from work and we had to check on our stash of wigs downstairs.

Then we carved some pumpkins. For the seeds, of course. I chose the less messy way...and just drew a jack-o-lantern on my pumpkin.

And then it was time for costumes..my father in law scared the crap out of many people, me included.

And Brian, well he was scary in his own way.

I wasn't going to dress up but last minute decided to dress as Brian's beautiful pregnant cowgirl wife. We made a beautiful couple.

The kids were PUMPED! Rascal was too.

Nana the queen and Papa, the scary skeleton.

Brady wasn't afraid though, he was the strong and powerful Superman.

Luckily the wind died down a little so it wasn't as crazy cold as it was earlier. Not like the kids cared though. It was trick or treat time!

Queen Nana was awesome and handed out candy to the masses so we could take the kids out.

Our neighborhood was awesome. So many cool decorated houses and some houses even had haunted houses in their garages. So much fun!

So glad he was here, even if he looks super creepy.

Halloween 2014 was a success! We had 192 trick or treaters are our house which was definitely a record, we never got that many in Mississippi or Nebraska. Good thing I went out and bought more candy last minute! 

It's Been Busy

October was seriously one of the busiest months we've had in a long time. It was so much fun, so tiring, and so great all at the same time. So what did we do?

1. Lots of Fall Fun

We had to hit up a pumpkin patch. I mean what else says fall than a pumpkin patch?!

We painted pumpkins with friends

And did some trick or treating of course! More Halloween pictures to come in a future post. 

2. Squadron Activities

I hosted a "My Favorite Things" social and it was a huge hit! It was so much fun!

Our squadron hosted an Air Force Academy football tailgate. They were playing New Mexico so being the appropriate squadron we are, we hosted a fiesta. Also, so much fun.

It included a bouncy house,

lots of beer and food. Oh and a margarita machine too. Because, fiesta.

And I was in charge of the pinata purchasing and stuffing. Here's Brady hitting the kid's pinata.

And here's Brian hitting the adult pinata. Full of booze.  Which we had to wrangle out of the non-listening kids arms.

The beautiful spouses of the glider squadron!

Go Air Force!

And we went to the Air Force Academy's trunk or treat. FIRE!

3. Visitors

Seriously moving to Colorado was the best thing we could have done for our visitor status. We have had SO many visitors and it's been awesome. My dear, dear friends Laura and Alex visited from Minnesota the other weekend and we seriously had so much fun. Like way too much fun as in I haven't been that tired in a long time, had to take 2 days to recover kind of fun.

Friends since 2004 (Alex, college roomie) and since 1991 (Laura, kindergarten friend and Brady's godmother!)

The kids adore them! :)

This girl will let anyone but me do her hair. She literally thought she was a princess.

We had a drunk guy take our picture..just a tad blurry!

And our visitors this weekend were Brian's parents! More on that in a future post! :)

4. Got our first fall illnesses

I think we tad overdid it this month and sadly, got our first fall colds. I got sick first but with my doTERRA oils was able to get better fairly quickly. The kids got sick at the same time, insisted on sitting together on this chair "being sick" together but luckily their sicknesses were short lived. These oils, I tell ya, they work!

5. Enjoy the beautiful fall Colorado weather

Fall has been splendid here in Colorado. Can't complain one bit. Super sunny, beautiful 70 degree weather, and beautiful fall colors.

Except for that one day it snowed, yeah that wasn't super cool. Luckily it was barely a dusting.

Here's to it being November (already?!) and almost Thanksgiving and Christmas time!