Backyard Campout

Derrek has been wanting to take Mason camping for some time now. Because of his overly busy schedule we decided that the best chance he would get to actually have this camp out was going to be in our very own backyard. Mason was so excited to get to have his backyard campout.

Here is daddy putting up the tent

The kids checking out the inside of the tent

The finished set up

Well the day passed and it was finally night time. We changed Mason into his jammies and grabbed his reveille (his favorite sleeping buddy) and the guys were ready to go. Derrek also stashed some chocolate away so that they could have a secret surprise when they got into the tent.

Here they are ready to go

My two guys climbing into their tent

Here they are in the tent ready for their night time campout.

I am proud to say that Mason slept out there the WHOLE night. I wasn't sure if he would or not but I was so proud of him for being such a brave boy. What a great experience for both daddy and son. I am pretty sure that after that fun event there will be many more a backyard campout in the future.

Happy Halloween 2011!!

I'm about 2 weeks late with this post but oh well. :) As usual we had a super fun Halloween. I will admit it was a wee bit difficult this year b/c Halloween fell on a Monday and Derrek is in class those nights so I was a solo show for the night. But we pushed on and made it through the night with success!! We started our night out at a party with some friends. The kids played and we ate yummy food then we headed out trick or treating.

The best pic I got of all the kids

All the sweet little girls in the group

Laila- this little sweetie is so petite that this is the exact same costume she wore last year for halloween. So adorable!!

My two little trick or treaters ready to go

Heading out to get some candy in luxury

After making it about 1 block with our friends we decided to head back to our own house for some trick or treating fun and to hand out our candy.

Here are the kids with our neighbor Ian. This was his first halloween. Doesn't he look adorable in his outfit?

The kids had a great time and Samantha picked up super quickly on the whole trick or treat thing at the door. We hope everyone had a fun filled and safe Halloween!!

Pumpkin Patch

We took the kids to the pumpkin Patch at their school to pick out a few pumpkins for the porch. We fully intended to carve one for Halloween but it never actually happened. Oh well! They had fun looking around and playing in all the pumpkins and that is what really counts anyways. On the plus side, I now have pumpkins on my porch as decoration for Thanksgiving!