Pumpkins and Parties and Angry Birds

I cannot believe that Halloween has come and gone already and we are almost at Thanksgiving!  The time is seriously just flying by!  Which is good and bad, I guess... bad because I hate to see the boys growing up so fast and good because I am SO READY not to be pregnant anymore!  I would push this baby out right here underneath the computer desk right this second if I could.  And I kind of want to punch people in the face when they say,  "Oh, you'll look back and miss these days... don't wish them away!"  Yes, I agree that I will miss the days when the boys were little but I can GUARANTEE that I will not miss being so uncomfortably pregnant and exhausted with three very active little boys to look after.  So there!  Anyway, enough venting... I know that we chose this and I am very thankful for another beautiful baby boy. 

Halloween was much different for us this year with warmer weather and lots of fun school activities (but no neighborhood or good friends to enjoy it with).  I just love the boys' school so much... they do such fun things for the kiddos and everyone is so super nice.  Here are J and E right before their class trips to the "pumpkin patch" (aka a bunch of pumpkins dropped off in a little strip of grass next to the road... gotta love a Florida pumpkin patch!) with his class.  E stamped that pumpkin shirt himself in class.     

I wasn't able to meet the classes at the pumpkin patch but Phil was working nights that week so he was able to help us pick out pumpkins one morning before work.  Happy Fall, Y'all!  :)  

It was hot and bright that day... hence all the squinting!  

The "patch" was right in front of the boys' school, which was convenient.  

Then a few nights later the boys carved their pumpkin.  They requested an Angry Bird face, which Daddy kindly made happen for them.

Jackson got brave and scooped out the insides this year!  :)

The glowing bird face...

On Halloween day J and E had their parties at school.  They got to wear costumes and the school had a little indoor carnival set up for each class to enjoy.  The boys had a lot of fun, even though it doesn't really look like it in these pictures.  :)

I had Reid with me (as always) and he was so excited to see Jackson!  He ran up and hugged him while yelling his version of "Jackson," which sounds something like "Dack-don."

Jackson's favorite game was this mini-golf one.  When the ball went into the hole the volunteer in charge of the game pushed a button and shot the ball back out.  The kids loved it.

Jackson asked to be the black Angry Bird for Halloween this year.  He looooooves to play that game on my phone (which we only let him do once in a blue moon because he will get obsessed with it) and really just loves anything to do with Angry Birds.  The black bird is his favorite because it is actually a bomb that blows up on command.  :) Emmett originally wanted to be Thomas or Percy (trains) but then decided he wanted to be the red bird when he heard that Jackson was going to be the black one.  At first I tried to talk them into being other things that I could just buy costumes of, but they wanted so badly to be these birds.  So I decided to just google a bird costume tutorial and was actually able to throw these together pretty easily and cheaply with some thread and hot glue.  Once I got the black and red done I felt sorry for Reid and didn't want him to be left out, so I decided to make him a blue bird costume.  Oh my gosh he looked so adorable!  They all looked adorable, really... if I do say so myself!  And I know Emmett's red one is actually smaller than Reid's blue one... that was my mistake but I didn't feel like doing it over!  It worked out fine.

Here they are all dolled up right before trick-or-treating.  We had the absolute perfect trick-or-treating weather that night... cool but not cold with a nice breeze.  Wonderful!

Here's hoping they'll want to be Angry Birds again next year and we can actually use these costumes again!  :)