Halloween Trunk or Treating!

Here are my silly kids in their costumes before the festivities.

They played "Ghost, Ghost, Pumpkin" while waiting for others to arrive. I loved Allyson's 80's look! I used to wear a side ponytail:)

Clara the Indian Girl, Rhiannon the Pioneer Girl and Jacob as Toad

Abby as Mickey Mouse, William and Cami

Jensen

Alex as a devil, Andrew in the background as Spiderman, and his dad as a bloody chef

Ella the Cheerleader

Matthew in his little bee costume from Grandma...this was a tough picture to get!

Annabel and her cute little dog. Evan loved this dog!

Zoey

Amanda as Alice in Wonderland, Pirate Sam and Lumberjack Benjamin

William the Indian Chief

Grayson as Buzz Lightyear and Chai the Tiger

Alayna in her funky wig

Scott the Arrrgh! Pirate

Trunk or Treat Halloween Parade

Leaves are Falling!

The kids have been watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and were interested in the leaf pile jumping so we did this Monday night.

Benjamin adds leaves to the pile

Jacob adds more to the pile

Matthew sits in his wagon taking it all in

Evan and Jacob post-jump

Jacob was having such a blast!

Benjamin's jump

Evan's jump

Jacob's jump

Matthew's 2nd Birthday!

Matthew has been such a sweet addition to our family these last 2 years. He is the happiest guy waking up ever and these days, we often hear him talking and singing to himself in the mornings. He is so cute! Check out the videos at the bottom for proof:) We started off the day by making Matthew's favorite breakfast of pancakes!

This kids just LOVES anything with wheels. He loves eating out of and playing with his Speed Racer bowl.

I made a similar pair for Jacob so here are Matthew's. He loves having a pair of his own!

My mom sent presents for Jacob and Matthew since their birthdays are so close together. Here they are opening them.

Here was my attempt at a truck cake. I thought it turned out OK considering that I didn't have as much time as I wanted to put it all together.

Lighting the candles!

Matthew digs in. He loves cake!

He loves it so much that he reached over to taste Benjamin's:)

Benjamin enjoy the birthday dessert

Jacob enjoys the ice cream

Mmmmm...let me lick all of that off!

Evan making a silly face

Matthew's present was kind of bulky so we just hid it under his blanky.

He pulled it off and over onto himself...it was so funny:)

But he LOVES this toy. There are numbers and shapes and songs and he is all about that. I can't believe that he can say his ABC's and count to 10 already and he is starting to learn his colors. Happy Day for Matthew!

Matthew dancing to The Wise Man and the Foolish Man

One of my favorite things about Matthew...his Pillsbury Dough Boy giggle:)

Jacob and Matthew open the presents from the Perkins grandparents

Bringing out the birthday cake!