The paras at school signed up to bring Halloween treats for treat day. I am going up against creative people that work with kids everyday. I needed something fun. So from my go-to online magazine...Family Fun...we picked the hairy spiders.
The boys helped put on the legs and eyes. Unfortunately the meringue ghosts looked ok but tasted terrible, we had to scrap those.
They we a hit! I insisted that the spiders needed 8 legs, but the boys got creative making the rare one-eyed spiders and the even more rare and dangerous 4-eyed spider (that they ate themselves)
The boys did not have school on friday so pumpkin carving we go!
We were all smiles in the beginning, thinking and drawing what they would like the pumpkin to look like.
Peter was determined to make a angry/scary pumpkin and had a definite idea what the eyes should look like but could no get them right.
Things got out of hand when I told the boys that they each had to stick their hand in and grab one handful of guts. Jamison was not so much smiling but on the verge of crying. Once he did it he said that it wasn't all that bad, not his favorite but ok.
Peter on the other hand was in hysterics. He told me that he was only going to reach in and grab one seed, but that means that his big mean mother would push is hand in to because extracting 1 seed would not cut it. Ooohh, he was not happy with me! Why did the boys get Pats irrational fear of pumpkin guts? Bummer.
We are almost ready with the costumes, Meet Cole DX, the ninja of Earth. Having learned Spinjitzu, and conquering his fear of dragons, he and his mighty Earth Dragon are as tough as a mountain. Together they will knock down the Skullkins like an Earthquake. Cole is the team leader and a good friend. He is strong, dependable and solid like a big, heavy rock.
Meet Kai, ninja of fire. (Kai still needs his mother to make a red head covering). Kai is like fire, wild and dangerous. He is quick to act, quick to attack and quick to get into big trouble. He is good at finding trouble also. Kai can't wait for anything. He jumps headfirst into a pool before checking to see if there's sire in it. He hopes there is, he wants to fight it. Final pictures to come.
We figured that the Owls might have a good chance to win since they are an excellent bird of prey but after the 1st half, they only had 12 points we figured it was going to be a blow out! 
Peter had fun trying to capture action shots. This one was pretty good! Badgers won 85-31. I felt bad for the Owls and would cheer them on once in a while, but YAY Badgers! 
Cousin Lisa asked if the boys wanted to help out with the Ski Brule float in the Green Bay Holiday Parade. The boys have never been in a parade. Jamison was excited...Peter nervous and claimed that he didn't want to do it. I told him he was and he would have fun!. (and I thought it would be fun to get the cousin's kids together...heck...get the cousins together outside of a funeral.) What we didn't know was if the boys were 2nd cousins or first cousins once removed? How does that work?
Some floats hand out candy....this one hands out SNOWBALLS! The boys jobs....make snowballs. The grownup jobs, hand out snow balls. We couldn't throw them...but a gentle toss was ok. 
Behind us were the alpacas, better in back instead of in front of us. 
The kids had a great time and were able to keep up with the demand. Before the parade was over Jamison asked if he could do it again next year! 
Peter was being camera shy but we eventually caught him on camera. The parade was being televised so hopefully they got on camera! 
After the parade we went to Aunt Diane's house to dump the remaining snow....and then a snow ball fight! Couple ice chunks were thrown...they hurt....so after a few penalties we had the ice ball toss. Thanks for inviting us! You can count on us again for next year!
Now he has that classic"missing two front teeth" look. I love it when food comes flying out of the large gaping hole! He now has some things on his Chirstmas list! 
This weekend was leaves, leaves and more leaves. Peter claimed that this one was the largest one ever! With a status of being the largest we needed to keep it around for a while! 
Some pictures you just have to make sure you get each year! We are dog sitting Peter's most favorite dog in the world while his owners are in Florida. Bosco! 
Bosco is a good dog, doesn't bark much, doesn't steal food, enjoys to hang out outside, likes going for walks (although pulls a little too hard). He does however have one MAJOR flaw....
oh no! you just didn't do that!!!! Bosco has been busted sleeping on the boys beds so we have kept their door closed. I never thought he could get up on my bed! but he did. Sorry Bosco, not at this house. 
Pat has been working really hard and successfully passed a series of really hard geek exams so he treated himself to a new toy! A new JD snow blower!. Look at it, all shiny and new. And he is even reading the manual! 
Here they are getting ready to go out trick-or-treating! Kai, Ninja of Fire and Cole, Ninja of Earth.
Here are the boys outside ready to go! You cant tell the difference between the LEGO guys and the boys. The will be able to be quick and move through the night to fill up that bag! 
Peter and his pumpkin, the scary, scary pumpkin! 
And Jamison with his happy pumpkin with his pumpkin minions. 
On Jamison day, you get a special treat in your lunch, your dinner choice (frozen pizza) and dessert choice (drumsticks)and a present from mom and dad. AND since I am working at the boys school he got a love note on his desk and a hand delivered cookie in his lunch. 
For his gift we gave him the Miami Dolphin watch that he has been talking about for months and a sweatshirt. He is in heaven. I wish they would win a game so they wouldn't be the worst team in the league. Jamison is most excited about the watch....and this is how the conversation went the rest of the night....."Mom, it is 7:15, 15 more minutes until it is 7:30. Now it is 7:40" "no Jamison the big hand is pointed to the 4, remember that is every 5 minutes, so it is 7:20." "5,10,15,20, yup you are right mom, it is 7:20" "Now it is 7:25....etc etc etc" He slept with the watch on, and is wearing it to school. I am sure Mrs. Seymour is going to love that he has a watch. Happy Jamison Day!
I don't know whose child this is, I hope he comes to his senses soon. He wore his Miami Dolpins hat. We were going to make a sign to see if we could get him on TV (who could pass up a cute kid at his first game) but decided not to because there were only green and gold markers at Lambeau, no Dolphin colors. 
Not sure why Jamison did not want to sit next to Big City Ray. Instead he sat next to a pretty chatty guy on the other side who thought it was cool that this was his first game. I explained that the fly by was going to be super loud and that he will see the planes before he sees them. Jamison did not believe me and then it happen and scared him a bit....but it was still cool. 
Packer games are all about the snacks, huge sodas and even larger popcorn buckets. Jamison was a happy camper. All in all he had a great time even though the Pack was not playing the Dolphins. 
Hopefully some day the boys will be come Packer fans. 
The Pack smoked the Rams. Perfect day for football. In the mean time Peter and Pat were up north fishing, fishing and more fishing. Reports were that is was cold, real cold but they did catch a couple fish! 
The tooth fairy gets to come to our house again! Jamison is a happy boy. I think the tooth fairy is going to earn many frequent flyer miles the next few months. I think she is going to be making many more trips here. 
I was able to join Jamison's class on the fire station field trip. The kids had a good time, learned a lot and luckily were able to stay dry on the walk there and back.
Jamison hikes the ball to Sam. 
Since I will not and can not play favorites and I said that I would wear my Packer Jersey. 
It becomes difficult when brother is matched with brother....who do I cheer for now? 
Peter is handed the ball, and Jamison chased him down and pulled his flag. This is the only picture I got be cause I was too busy cheering on both of them. Technically Jamison tackled Peter but Peter refuses to admit it. Good thing they dont play each other again. 
Over the weekend we had some fort building. Who knew that the vacuum can me a nice head rest. 
While Pat studied for his geek exam the boys and I went to my favorite farm to pick tomatoes and potatoes. We came home with 68lbs of tomatoes (only half shown here) and 15 lbs of potatoes. 
I needed help slicing and dicing the tomatoes for the many batches of stewed and frozen tomatoes and the many many batches of spaghetti sauce. No fingers were lost in the processing of tomatoes. 
Sunday we went apple picking. I forgot the camera in the orchard so I had to get the post picking pictures. 
The boys were thrilled. We had an awesome (rainy) weekend. now I have to get back to more tomatoes.