Happy Halloween!! 2013

Happy Halloween everyone!!  This was a great Halloween, we kept it pretty low-key and enjoyed gathering with friends again in the driveway while the kids trick-or-treated.  We also went to the church for some Trunk-or-Treat fun.  My favorite part of this particular Halloween was the costumes!  This year, we wore what we had... YAY!!!

Ashton was our gorgeous OU cheerleader!  This was something we had already and Addie had worn one year.  

 Addie chose to be the cutest little black cat you can find!  She was a black cat a couple years ago, and I was so excited that she wanted to be one again!  You want to be a cat?  Absolutely!

 Austin's costume was the only one we bought this year, but he has been begging for this morph outfit ever since he saw our neighbor, Nate Hansen, wear one a couple years ago.  They cover your whole body but you can see out of them.  He actually worked to pay for half of the morph suit!  This will probably be a lot like his Spider-Man outfit, he will wear it for many Halloween's to come!

 Avery was super creative this year with her costume!  I was so proud of her!  She put on her red jeans, a black t-shirt and our Mickey Mouse ears.  The she remembered we had white gloves and added the markings to them and on her feet is yellow duck tape!  That's right, she went all out!  I loved it!!  She is gorgeous!!

 So we show up at the church for Trunk-or-Treat, and there we see Mikey Lard dressed up as Mickey Mouse!  Believe me, this was not planned out!  A few years ago, Avery and Mikey were both dressed as Super-man... again not planned!  I had to grab a picture!  

 Here's a sweet picture of the girls with some of their friends, Evie Vaclaw and Laynie Hansen.  Beautiful Princesses!!

 The morph dudes: Burk Hansen, Logan Vaclaw and Austin.

 This is Avery's favorite crew!  Her friends, MaryKate Vaclaw, Izzy Vaclaw, Julianna Ahlert and Brigette Bulleigh.

 We also made a stop over at Nana's house to see her and Ann!  Their cousins were there too!!  This was one of those Halloween's where the weather was nice, and as you can tell, the fall leaves were beautiful!  Happy Halloween!!

October Activities

 School is in full force now and we have lots of activities going on!  I'll try to sum it up in one post for the month of October!  As I mentioned, Avery quit cross country.  In Elementary, the kids participate in the Bruin Mile which is for all schools to compete and run a mile.  My kids hate it!  Again the excuse: running is not fun.  Which is why I said adios to cross country for probably forever!  But we still have them do the Bruin Mile and they are always glad when its over.  Ashton hasn't started it yet, usually they wait until 2nd or 3rd grade.  Here is Addison on the downhill stretch.  

 And here is Austin close to the finish line.  I was so proud of him for giving it everything he had at the end!  They do the runs according to grade and with boys and girls separate so there are a lot of races.

 Here is some of our 5th grade boys ready to race.  These are Austin's closest friends at school:  Hayden Wood, Silas Early and Jacoby Faust.

Another activity that comes up in October is the National Walk to School Day.  The kids actually really love this!  It's walking, not running after all!   

Avery is still in choir and really enjoys it.  She has a new teacher this year and it's a little harder to get used to his style but they really sound amazing.  Here she is after her fall choir concert with a couple of her friends, Peyton Winter and Jadyn Keeler.

All the grades at Ranch Heights take their turn performing for an assembly.  This was at the end of Austin's performance.

 I mentioned before that Randy is occasionally getting tickets to a suite at the BOK building in Tulsa.  We've been super lucky to be able to see some amazing concerts!  This was when we went to see Rascal Flatts and The Band Perry.

 And this picture was taken in the suite when we saw Blake Shelton in concert.  Holy cow, you can tell he is an Oklahoma Boy!  Not only was the concert amazing and funny, but the crowds were loving it!  I thought we were at a rock concert!

 On this particular night, we were supposed to be at the Keith Urban concert.  We had tickets but it was also the last home football game of our Bartlesville Bruins.  So where did we go???  The life of a small town girl! :)  Gooooo Bruins!!

 October also consisted of a lot of soccer games!  It actually turned cold a little earlier this year.

If Randy's bundled up you know its cold!  This was a really early soccer game in Tulsa!

We froze our little hiney's off!  But that's what we do for each other!!!  I hope our kids always know how much we love them!!