Duck Hunting

Daddy is not the only duck hunter who has been braving the weather this season...



(P.S. - the curtain rod is actually a shotgun.)

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.

Movie Monday

We introduced Dane and Jaeger to the world of Mary Poppins and they absolutely loved it!

And they're still thinking about it several days later!

The boys and I were reading books tonight and Jaeger suddenly jumped off the couch and started dancing. I had no idea what he was doing and then I realized that the page we had come to in the book we were looking at had a penguin on it.

With all the choices of movies out there, I'm so glad that our boys can be entertained with the classics. Of course, Music Man is on our list of classics to watch - any other ideas out there?

Hollywood to H.O.G.!

Anyone remember the Hollywood stage Dane went through?


Well, Jaeger Ray has found his own stage. Perhaps, we should start calling him HOG BOY!