The Big Day!

What a whirlwind of a day! I can safely say that Halloween had to be one of the best days in Dane's life. It was jam packed with parties, fun and, of course, a ridiculous amount of candy and sweets!

Dane's first party was at pre-school with a Noah's Arc inspired theme, so he got to dress up as his favorite animal. You may remember Dane dressing up as a giraffe in 2009 and falling on the floor in a sugary bliss. Check it out here.

Here are Dane and Jaeger indulging in a cupcake at Dane's Spunky Sprouts party in the afternoon.

Getting ready to go trick or treating!

After Dan and the boys went trick or treating around our neighborhood, Dane and I drove to Kellen's house and did the whole trick or treat thing again on the way to the Harvest Carnival his pre-school has every year.

And here are a few photos at the Harvest Festival. It started pretty late so Daddy and Jaeger stayed at home to pass out candy and Dane and I got to have some fun one-on-one time. I'm not really sure who had more fun. Thankfully, I couldn't take any pictures of myself down that huge blow up slide, but I did partake more than once. ;)

Needless to say, we all crashed pretty hard on Halloween night and we're still recovering!

The joys of being a kid

Dane and I went to the Harvest Carnival that his pre-school has every year on Halloween. It's always a blast and this year didn't disappoint. This video is bound to become a favorite in our house!

Getting ready for Halloween

Dane was very interested in decorating the house for Halloween this year. He wanted our decorations to be spooky (I'm pretty sure he doesn't even know what spooky means!) So since our Halloween box was pretty disappointing to both of us upon opening it, we decided to craft a few of our own.

Here are Dane's salt dough ghosts.

And our glass jack 'o lantern jars. Jaeger painted the smallest one, Dane did the medium sized one and I did the large one. The picture isn't that great, but they turned out really cute and the boys love seeing them all lit up.

These treat bags for Dane's class were as spooky as we got this year.


Here's Dane working on one.

And for the grand finale....our pumpkins. I'm sure you can tell, but these were both designed by Dane. For the one on the left, Daddy had Dane draw a face on a piece of paper and Daddy used that to carve the pumpkin. For the one on the right, we gave Dane free reign with a Sharpie pen. As you can see he drew a forehead, hair and the line going across the pumpkin is his body. I particularly loved the tiny eyes and eyebrows with the HUGE mouth! It's certainly not going to win any pumpkin carving contests, but it's all his. :)

We have a jam packed Halloween day with two parties, trick or treating and a carnival! Should be a blast!

One unique Halloween bag!

Look what we found at Home Depot last week.....


Isn't that Duct Tape AWESOME! Of course, Dane had to have it and it was hard to say no to our little firefighter. :)

After admiring it for a day or two, Dane and I got to crafting. I knew that you could make all sorts of cool things with Duct Tape thanks to my savvy niece Eliana (she made a very cool duct tape wallet for Dan several years ago that he loves.) So, we did a search online for all things super cool made with Duct tape and we found this tutorial for a candy bag.

Once we had the how-to we got busy. Here's Dane laying out the tape.


After we finished, we had to play a few rounds of Trick or Treat. Here he his digging down deep for his lollypop.

And here's the finished product.

Parties, the glacier and more!

We're still coming down from the high of Halloween fun! We had Halloween festivities the entire weekend. Here are a few photos from just Friday and Saturday!

On Friday, we were invited to a Halloween party and the kids got to partake in the good 'ol fashion mystery bucket. The wet spaghetti was definitely a favorite!


On Saturday, we went to the Mendenhall Glacier for their annual Halloween Rock-ToberFest.

Here are Firefighter Dane and his trusty firedog Jaeger Ray just taking it all in.

Dane trying his luck at mini-golf.

My happy pumpkin!


Is this fire contained? Anyone need help in there?

We waited quite a long time for this yellow dog, but it was worth it!

Happy Firefighter!


After the glacier, we headed to Swampy Acres for a pony ride. Dane wasn't too interested so we skipped the pony rides, but Jaeger sure loved chasing after the chickens!

Halloween Flashback

2007 - Little Peapod Dane


2008 - Dane the spider


2009 - Dane was quite lucky this year and got to dress up in not one, but two costumes!
Here he is rocking his sheep costume.


And here he is passed out from the sugar overdose! You can actually see the candy slobber on his chin. ;)


This was the year that Jaeger Ray made his appearance as an adorable Tootsie Roll.

And here are our sweet boys together.

The festivities have just begun.....

The Halloween festivities that is!

This morning started with a Noah's Arc themed party at Dane's preschool. Everyone was encouraged to dress up as their favorite animal. Dane went as a sheep. (In fact, you may remember this costume from last year...) Who else forgot about the crazy Hollywood phase?

And in case you're wondering - yep, it's a Nannie original!

Here's how he looked this year in his sheep costume.


The little ears won't even fit around his sweet head! He's such a big boy now. I should have taken a full body picture though - Dane was definitely waiting for a flood. ;) But, the sweet little feet that Nannie made scooted right up to the sheep costume and you couldn't even tell!

Here are a few more photos from this morning....



Yep, that's little Jaeger Ray causing havoc. In a matter of minutes, Jaeger had his hand in the green paint and managed to paint all over the table. You can't leave this guy alone for even a second!

After school we went by our "pumpkin patch" otherwise known as Don Abel's. (A local hardware store that puts a few barrels of hay with some pumpkins on them.)


The best part about Don Abel's is definitely the free lollipops! Here's Jaeger Ray indulging...


And there he is offering a little lick to you - just like Auntie Kissy! ;) (Only 2 people will understand that comment, but I couldn't resist! I love you Kissy Poo!)

We ended the evening by making these little lovelies for a Halloween party we are going to in the morning.


My ghost making helper (yep, those are supposed to be ghosts - just in case you couldn't tell! Martha, I am not. :) )

The sneaky smile after stealing yet another white chocolate chip from the bag!

We have a whirlwind of a weekend ahead of us, so stay tuned for lots of photos of firefighters and Dalmation dogs! ;)