Happy Halloween!

We had a great time dressing up and going to our Ward "Trunk-or-Treat" the night before Halloween. Yummy chili and cornbread, lots of fun costumes and good friends, and a bucketful of candy for us to enjoy...I mean for Aubrey to enjoy : )

Steve dressed up as a Hockey player ( don't judge the team...he has no jersey of his own and had to borrow) complete with a missing tooth. He used this black tooth paint that was actually pretty realistic! A few people even asked him what happened to his tooth! I of course came to the rescue dressed as the Tooth Fairy : )
(That was definitely a last minute costume and I am very thankful for Aubrey's dress-up box for donating most of it!)

Asher was a cowboy. I was trying to think of a costume that had a built in bib. We had multiple bandanas just for that purpose, but my son, the overflowing spitup machine that he is, managed to make short work of those. He was cute anyway. We had worked outside all day clearing the flowerbeds and planting spring bulbs, so we ended up finishing up his costume last minute right before the party. I cut out the chaps out of felt that had this neat embossed pattern on it and Steve used iron on backing to put them on a pair of jeans I got at the second-hand store. His little hat is a doll hat from Hobby Lobby....a little silly, but I just couldn't resist!

Aubrey was dressed as a good witch. I made her the tutu and we found the little broom for 1.50. She loved it and wore it more than once before Halloween.

We also won "Best Group" at our Halloween party. We didn't exactly all go together, but hey...I'm not one to turn down an award from my adoring public!

Here are some pics for you:

( PS...Don't hate me for having a million pictures....my babies were just looking too cute, I couldn't choose just one!)

At the ward trunk or treat

Costume Parade: Aubrey refused to get out of line even when it was disbanded. She loved it! She just kept following the kids in front of her to their seats : )

My Little Cowboy

Showing off Asher's chaps...turns out its hard to take a picture one-handed while holding a wiggly 7mo old! And while we're on the subject of bad picture-taking, please forgive the background too.

My lil' witch casting a spell on daddy...

At Grandma and Papa Kent's for a Halloween costume encore

THE END

Kansas City Zoo

The kids and I were lucky enough to get to visit the KC Zoo with some friends of ours that have season passes. We had a great time, and although a lot of the animals didn't cooperate we had lots of fun riding the train (Aubrey's favorite!) and watching the polar bear show off for the crowd.

The girls at the polar bear exhibit...I'm pretty sure that polar bear is not to scale, but remind me to not take Aubrey to the artic anytime soon just in case!

Cutie girls

Polar Bear exhibit...it was packed!

Riding the train

Aubrey would have been happy riding the train all day! : )

Thank goodness for double strollers for tired 3 yr olds! 

Feeding "bambi"

Watching the seal show

Have my cake...and eat it too!

I graduated! : ) ...from cake class that is. So this is my second attempt at taking Wilton Cake Class Course 1. The first time around...Aubrey interrupted my lessons mid-way by being born (how rude of her, right?) so I never finished the course. I took it at our local Hobby Lobby this time with my sister-in-law and it was a lot of fun. It's also a lot of work too to have all the prep done for each class!

I've made (and eaten) a lot of cake and icing this past month thanks to this class and Aubrey's party!

Here are a few pics of my efforts. Please don't judge to harshly...the class time is so jammed packed we don't often have but a few minutes to try each technique and precious little time at the end to decorate before class is over. It's fast-paced but I'm supposed to be practicing this all at home so if I get around to that, I'm sure I'll improve! : )

Also a little disclaimer on the photography: unfortunately its an evening class so I've got lovely indoor fluorescent light pictures, oh well, everything tasted good at least!

A few techniques on cupcakes....I may of had to taste test one on the way home : )

Otherwise my little "taste-testers" get them all!

A little post-bath/pre-bed snack

My SIL making ribbon roses

Our Final Cakes ( I made a small one on purpose...and we're still struggling to eat it all!

Thoughts...

Fishy Face

We met some friends out at Blue Springs Lake Marina to feed the fish last week. There is a HUGE school of carp there that wait around the marina dock for handouts. We bought bags of "fish food" for a quarter and let the girls go at it. They loved it!

The girls kept throwing in the whole baggie of food at one time to watch the fish go crazy.

It was kind of chilly, and here's Asher looking a little unsure about the whole thing.
Yuck...their open mouths kind of gross me out! : ) The girls kept saying..."They're still hungry!" I'm pretty sure they're always "still hungry".

( PS...there is no fishing off the dock for pretty obvious reasons) : )