October

October means cool air, foliage, calming colors on the plants and trees, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, the thoughts of Halloween then Thanksgiving then Christmas, and costumes and parties and pumkin picking and planning and shopping ect. ect. ect.

This year was no different. So I really came to dislike halloween this year. I started the month telling the children that this year I was not going to buy costumes and so we should find ways to be creative and make costumes. Well.....

Taylor always goes the sports route, never the scary route and just goes and pick something out of his closet. Cool. Done.

Drew is too young to decide what he wants to be so I decided that he still fit his Racecar Driver costume that I found at Kid to Kid last year for like 5 bucks and still loves cars so Cool. Done.
Kylin, are you kidding me, first said that she wanted to be Mini Mouse. Already had the costume so I was felt relieved. When Ashlyn said she wanted to be the ever so popular and mainstream Hannah Monata. Cool. Done. Guess what, yeah Kylin had to be Hannah Montana too. And the story continues, I thought that 5 dollar wigs at Savers would be all I had to spend money on and then I could make their costumes. Well, I ended up spending 12 dollars at the store for leggings and so chuching - $22 on halloween. In my book, that is too much. And why did I think making their shirts would be fun? So as you can see Ashlyn was Hannah Montana all 4 times we had to dressup and Kylin was Hannah Montana twice and a Cat twice. As a women with 5 kids, I don't care what your wearing half the time lets just make it out the door with clothes and shoes on:)

Jalynes costume knew she had to be and Astronaut this year. Cool. Done. This was so fun, a friend that gave me this white jumper and we printed Nasa patches on line and the a friend ran them through her sticker machine. Free! The hat is a pumkin $1 painted white with nasa stickers and a costco milk jug strapped on her back as her oxygen tanks. She won the BEST HOMEMADE COSTUME AWARD at a party. Jalyne rocks with her free spirit! She thought this costume was the coolest thing:)

Before Halloween Night there's

Pumpkin Picking at Gilcrease. First with Kylins Preschool where she decided this was her pumpkin. Then because it was so much fun, with the whole fam.



GRIZZLES AFTER DARK

PICNIC IN THE PARK


PUMPKIN CARVING

FYI if you ever wondered, pumkin seed size depends on the size of the pumpkin


Then the Class Parties
1st Ashlyn's Class

Then, Jalynes

Finally, Taylors

Halloween Day -

starts with a complete breakfast

The Miller Family Halloweenie Roast

The Banaria Family to pass out candy