Halloween Night!

Time to carve those massive pumpkins we picked out over a month ago!  The boys are always fascinated with the insides of the pumpkins - it is so gooey and there are seeds!

The kids really wanted a "batman" pumpkin this year....so we one faced pumpkin and then another pumpkin with the batman symbol.

Grandma Gray was nice enough to stay and hand out candy to the kids that came trick-or-treating at our house while the rest of us walked around the neighborhood for our own trick-or-treating.  We walked around with our neighbors Lily and Kai.  It is funny to watch the kids go crazy and run house to house (sometimes taking short cuts like Logan in the picture below).  The kids lasted for almost an hour and then they decided they were thirsty and tired and wanted to go home.  We got about 75% of our neighborhood done at that point.

Then it was time to check out the candy haul!  The kids were excited with everything....it was all sugar!

Happy Halloween 2013!

Challenger Halloween Sing

Zach's kindergarten class at Challenger did a quick "Halloween Sing" show.  Grandma and Grandpa Gray made it to town in time to see it!  Dustin dressed up as Fix-it Felix for work....it was PERFECT!

Zach walking in with his classmates...

The whole kindergarten class.  Some of these kids has really creative costumes!

Zach cheesing it up!

We love how confident Zach has been getting with his singing and presentation skills.  Challenger does these kinds of programs three times a school year.

Trunk-or-Treat

This afternoon we had our neighborhood Trunk-or-Treat!  Basically everyone trick or treats in the church parking lot.  Jen decided to try and decorate the back of the Durango.....

Both Dustin and Zach were Spiderman and Logan was the Hulk....

There was a pretty good turn out, about 1/3 of the parking lot was full.

The kids were satisfied with their candy haul....I think half of it was eaten by the time we made it home!

Getting ready for Fall

What a perfect Saturday to hit up the local pumpkin patch for some Fall (soon to be Halloween) decor! We always love hitting up Maybey's to get our pumpkins.  Thank goodness for Facebook - we learned today was their opening day!  Jen's parents were in town visiting this weekend, so they were able to come with us.

Look at those orange beauties!

Dustin picked out a BIG pumpkin - have fun carving that!

That pumpkin pretty much filled the whole wagon!

This is the first year we've seen all the pumpkins still on the vine....way cool!

 Logan venturing out to find some more cool pumpkins

Zach was a bit indecisive....

Our final haul...we said we were only going to get 4 pumpkins...um...there are 8 in that wagon.

Photo moment with Grandma and Grandpa Twogood

Strong man is hauling them back to our car...never underestimate the power of a 'batman'

The boys power washed off the front porch and the pumpkins.  They will now reside on our front porch until after Halloween!

How many more pumpkins do you think we will end up with before it actually reaches Halloween?

Getta Long Little Doggie

Today was "Western Days" at kindergarten for Zach.  He was able to spruce up his uniform for the event.  Zach has been learning new songs at school and the kindergarteners were going to sing a "western" song to the pre-school aged kids.  This song is one that Zach has been singing around the house for a couple of weeks now.  We love the chorus part, it says "yippee ky ey yeah get along little doggie".

He did well playing the part!

All to ourselves!

Jen was down at BYU doing college career fair stuff for work, which meant it was a 'guys night' for Dustin and the boys.  So what exactly went on during this 'guys night'?  Apparently it was going to see the movie Planes in the IMAX.  What made this extra special?  They were the ONLY ONES in the entire theater!!

Want to be like brother

We were walking out the door to take the kids to school this morning and Logan says, "wait one minute" and he ran back in his room.  He shortly comes running back looking like this:

Logan decided he wanted to wear a tie, since Zach wears one as part of his school uniform.  We love this kid and his creativeness!

Backyard Fire Pit

We decided to roast some hot dogs for dinner tonight on our new propane fire pit!  The kids think this is the coolest thing ever.....

After the hot dogs we decided to introduce the kids to 'banana boats'.  They didn't quite understand why you mix marshmallows and chocolate chips on a banana...and then throw it on a fire....

But everyone enjoyed the banana boats after they finished roasting!

Pick up 'surprise'

Today when we picked up Logan from daycare he was wearing some very small pants....size 2T girls skinny jeans - this boy is a solid 3T almost 4T.  He had an 'accident' and apparently the staff conveniently forgot that Logan brings a backpack everyday with a change of clothes in case there is an accident.  Part of me is furious....but part of me can't stop laughing...

Lets just say Jen had a 'talk' with the staff the very next day to 'remind them' that the backpack he brings every day has extra clothes in it.

Claim to fame?

The company we work for - IM Flash Technologies - went through a website re-design over this year.  They really did a good job of talking with people in the company about what they enjoy about their job...and they only used people pictures from our employees on the website....they made it personal.  This website has been live for about a month now.  Now here is why you needed to know all this....

Jen was at BYU tonight with four other colleagues, presenting to a group of Chemical Engineering students on who IM Flash is and what we do and how Chemical Engineers play a role.  The whole thing lasted about 1.5 hours.  Afterwards the students come up and talk with us individually asking what ever questions they wanted.  Jen had two students approach her and say, "Hey...you are the one on the front page of the website!"

Um...yes...yes I am (as I try and avoid turning red in the face).  I don't think I EVER expected that to happen.  Now I need some cool come back lines......

Crossfit Pirates

Dustin headed to cross-fit with the Krotosky's tonight.  The kids just played together while the parents worked out.  Apparently being a pirate was the theme....

What ever keeps them happy and entertained!

Kindergarten

We have Kindergartner, yes, we have a KINDERGARTNER!  Last week we were able to go visit the class room at Challenger that Zach will be in this school year and meet his teachers.

Zach was super excited.  We walked around the school and showed him where he would be dropped off and picked up and where he would eat lunch.  He got to meet his teachers and see all the fun stuff in his room.  So, today was the day......he started KINDERGARTEN!

A sign your kids are up to no good

Zach comes running into our room today and says....."Mom we did something REALLY BAD!"

Apparently Zach and Logan were taking turns hanging on the towel rack in the upstairs bathroom.  Since Zach is about 8 pounds heavier than Logan....he was the one hanging on it when it finally decided to rip out of the wall.  Good thing we have a handyman in the house....