Trick or Treat

I know I am a little behind, but here are the halloween pics! Wow, what a long day it was.... it was a lot of fun don't get me wrong...and the weather...who would have thought that it could be so nice(I was so hot I even had to take off my sweater) at the end of October! I remember a couple years ago we were so bundled up and still getting frostbit.

It started with trick or treating downtown with some friends. Kate the bumble bee, Ella the princess and Mackenzie the candy corn!

The oh so appropriate Jack O lantern pizza for Papa Murphy's! I asked the guy how many of those he had made and he made the comment about how many mini vans had been in the parking lot that day.....he said like 400 and it was only early afternoon!

Now for the trick or treating with daddy! Mackenzie almost had more fun handing out candy during our "dinner time" than going out and getting the candy!

My little candy corn! This is what she picked out amongst several costumes at Target.

My sweet little bumble bee!

If we had only known that we had Shrek living only 2 houses away!

Well Mackenzie was ready to come home after and hour, she took off her costume before we even got back home. I think she was looking forward to carving her pumpkin! Normally we do this before Halloween, but it just didn't get done, so what better Halloween activity than carving the pumpkin!She wasn't so sure she wanted to stick her hand in there. I finally got her to do it after I removed every single seed!The finished product! It was supposed to have had teeth, but they broke off.

Here is Kate enjoying her first ever piece of candy. I know I am a horrible parent letting an 8 mo. old have candy! It was just this one time and she loved it. Of course she cried when I took it away, but thought she could steal Mackenzie's!

Fireproof!

Finally..... Aaron and I got to have a night out all to ourselves! Our good friends watched both of the girls and we got to have a dinner that was warm.....peace -n- quiet and we only had to feed ourselves! Then we got to go see a movie....an adult movie. I have been waiting to see Fireproof for like years now(it seemed like it)......it was well worth the wait. I don't think I have ever cried so hard in a movie....and I am not typically a movie crier...... I also laughed a lot! I am just so thankful that there are movies like this being made and put out in theaters! If you haven't gotten to see it, you MUST! Girls.... you have to get a babysitter(the hardest part) and ask your husband out on a date. Let's show "them" that we want more movies like this. We typically wait for movies to go to the dollar theater, but we wanted to send a message with this one!


Fun Facts about the movie:

• Kirk Cameron, a Christian evangelist, refuses to kiss any woman other than his wife. To film a scene in which his character in this movie kisses his wife, the filmmakers had to dress Cameron's real-life wife, Chelsea Noble, as the wife character (played throughout the rest of the movie by Erin Bethea) and shoot the kissing scene in shadow so the difference between Noble and Bethea would not be as evident on screen.
  
  
• Instead of a fee for starring in the film, Kirk Cameron accepted a donation to his charity, Camp Firefly.
  
  
• The film made in nine days what Sherwood Pictures' previous movie, Facing the Giants (2006) made in its entire four-month run.

Thank you Sherwood Pictures!

Kate's new trick

Here is Kate's new trick that she has been doing lately. We will shake our heads and then she does it. It isn't quite ready for AFV, but we think it is cute. Sorry if it makes you dizzy....I was shaking my head.

So sad!

So there was this wind on Sunday...........it just came by and threw our playset into a ball.

Fortunately it looks fixable......if only it would have been anchored down. I won't mention any names on that, but it might have saved you some work! Mackenzie has been praying for it.....that God can help daddy fix it! "God can't help daddy fix it," she said after a while....."He is up in the sky!" Another teachable moment!

Fall Festival

"After this nap are we going to church to jump?" This is what Mackenzie said for 3 days before! Our church has an annual Fall Festival that is a great outreach to the community. The kids look forward to it every year....with giant inflatable slide and tramp...silly sally the clown....carnival games....praise puppets.... and lots of sugar what is there not to love!

This is Mackenzie's favorite thing...she was so sad when she saw them deflating it after it was all over. I actually got a decent shot of her in action....normally it is so blurry!

The other favorite.....

Mackenzie decided she wanted her hair done and face painted...notice the blue and green hair extension. She was heartbroken when she realized she lost it and we couldn't find it anywhere. As she was crying some girl came up and offered her hers. It was a teachable moment on what an example that was about"thinking of others!"

She had gotten her face painted before she went and got a balloon creation from Silly Sally. I don't even think she realized what her face really was until she saw this clowns. Silly Sally was excited to see another clown. I had a picture of them together but it didn't turn out!

Another one of Mackenzie's favorites was the pop toss.......she won 2 liters of pop! Then we had an accident.....she fell into the fish pond booth and got soaked! She didn't seem to mind too much ....I told her to go jump on the tramp and dry off!

Here is 2 of our good friends at the basketball shot booth. They are a couple of the directors for Upwards so they were promoting that. Love the hair Jake!

Mackenzie can't wait until next year....by then Kate might be able to enjoy!

Thank the Lord for Friends!

Ok, I am a little behind on my updates....but 2 weeks ago our good friends Jeremey and Elizabeth came up to visit for the weekend. They have 2 children as well, Rebekah and Aaron. They also came up for the Iowa State football game, sorry they had to drive all this way for a loss!

Mackenzie and Rebekah had a lot of fun together. This is one of Mackenzie's favorite things to do....read books to people.

The two guys and their babes chatting away about something...politics...work...theology....how to save the world!

Then of course on sunday we had to go to Hickory Park! (Ames famous hometown restaraunt)

It was so great to see you guys again! Thanks for coming up to stay.....don't wait so long next time!