things to do during nap time!

make a princess castle out of an old Huggies diaper box. We have plenty of them sitting around the house. It even has carpet and a dance floor inside. Also heart widows on the side, windows that open and close and a drawbridge door. She likes it so I am happy. We will see how long it lasts. They got all the dinosaurs out and started attacking it. Ben was the brave night that fought them off.

Our ice cream family night chart died so here is a new one.

Siena learning to ice cookies. It was a big mess, but yummy.

Ben after he enjoyed the cookies.

Our Halloween spider web cookies. The frosting is really good. Mine was too runny but still tasted good and I didn't have black food coloring. Here is the link if you want to try. lots of sugar!

I love my free time. Siena doesn't always take a long nap/quiet time but I love the time I have to myself. I have become addicted to blogs especially craft blogs. There are so many crafty people out there. I am also cheap and am always saying I could make something like that, why would I spend money on it. So I have tried a few things lately.

the Princess and her brave Knight

The kids loved trick o treating. Siena was really good and knocked on the door and said trick o treat and thank you. Ben was really just cute and kept filling up his bowl until we told him to stop. He wanted to take all the candy. Then after each house he would have to open one of the candies to eat. They had a lot of sugar running through them. Ben loved the houses with dogs and would stay there forever if we let him. They had fun and we were back in the house right before the big downpour of rain so it was perfect. We came back and dumped all our candy out and sorted through all of it and put the stuff we didn't like in the bowl to give away. Unfortunately we didn't have a lot of trick o treaters so we still have tons of candy. It was a really fun night and the kids were cute!

the one time Ben would put the hat on.

Ben getting in on the goods.

off to the next house! Dave dressed up as a baseball fan/player.

trunk o treat

We had lots of opportunities to wear our costumes this year. Siena has been wearing her cotume for the whole month of October and I doubt we will put it away anytime soon. Our princess Siena has been with us everywhere! We had to bribe Ben with candy to put his costume on. But he sure did look cute when we got the whole thing on him. He wouldn't wear the helmet or boots for very long. We went to our trunk o treat party at the church where we had chili and a costume parade and then off to get candy. We decorated the car trunk with ghosts and spiders and pumpkins. We used Siena's hand print for the spider and her foot print for the ghosts. She was pretty excited about it and had fun hanging them up in the trunk. Trunk o treat was lots of fun and we got TONS of candy.

this is of the little parade. No one really knew what they were doing so it was funny.

halloween work party

Daves work had a Halloween party. It was really fun and the kids had a good time collecting candy from everyone. They got to practice their trick o treating skills.

one more pumpkin patch

I love pumpkin patches and I love how tired it makes the kids. So we got to go to one more. It was a little muddy from all the rain that we were having but they had a lot of fun. There were tunnels to go through and slides and trucks and trains to climb on. We did it all. We arrived and I was so excited because there were no schools there. By the time we got out of the car tons of busses had come so it was going to be crowded. Luckily we outlasted the schools that had to be back at 12 and we had a really good time once they left and it was not crowded. We didn't have to wait for anyone and we got another awesome hay ride. It amazes me what kids are scared of. I was worried that the kids would be scared of the hayride because it has ghosts and goblins hanging all around the trees you go under and tombstones all around it. They loved it and pointed at them and laughed. Then at the entrance of the pumpkin patch there is one little statue of a goblin type guy holding out a bowl that is filled with candy and they are terrified of it. You never know. We had a good time and I am glad they had fun and outlasted all the schools so we could do more.