Family Night-Pizza Making

The serious pizza chef of the group

A pizza dough mustache

Daddy wasn't available for this family night he had a lot of homework to do-this one was a couple weeks ago, it was terribly hard to help four kids make pizza but they had fun. The Prince put both sauces-red and pesto, he also put chicken, tomatoes, and any sort of topping I had out. It was so cute and so yummy. It took forever for me to clean up because first I made the pesto sauce from the basil in the backyard. I was going to make my own pizza dough but I ended up buying it at Trader Joe's, thank goodness for that. It is really neat because the kids gets excited now when we say " It's Friday, It's Family Night!" The Princess says "Yeah, Family Night!!!"

Halloween Party

We sent the princess to one Grandmas house to have "girly" time and the boys went with the other Grandma to McDonald's and the park. Then Daddy and I had 8 little boys in the house. It was so awesome! I was dressed up as a witch and Brad was a 1920's business man (so he said, his costume was pieced together) Brad was in charge of 2 games-a balloon pull (the number on your balloon determined your # of prizes from the prize bucket) and water balloon toss. I was in charge of musical chairs and this icky game where you put things like cooked and oiled noodles (brains) in container in a bag and they blindly feel inside and try to guess what body part it is. There was cold cooked oatmeal (guts), unpopped popcorn (teeth), yarn (hair), peeled grapes (eyeballs) and more. It was so funny. We had one boy who was three and every time it was his turn to feel he would do it but when it was time for him to guess, Brad would say "okay what d you think it was?" and he would say "Yuck" then Brad would say" yeah, but what do you think it is?" He would reply "YUCK!" He was adorable. The Prince felt so special to have something just for him and his friends.

Karaoke

The Bulldozer dressed up as a cowboy for a karaoke family night. Adorable!!!

Family Night (3 weeks ago)

So I am a little behind in my blogging, I am going to do as may blogs as I can tonight to catch up. Here is our family recipe for caramel apples......

First, you wash the hand picked apples Then you dip them in caramel and let them set



Then you enjoy

When you are done with your apple you place it in an inconspicuous spot for your parents to find it later

Pumpkins

We left Oak Glen and went to the Pumpkin Patch to get our pumpkins. We normally get our pumpkins at the same place but this time we wanted to try the other place. They had games and a corn maze and jump houses which we all $4 each, per kid so needless to say we did not participate in any of those activities. We let them climb up the FREE hay castle and then we went searching for the perfect pumpkins-1 for each of us. The Prince always has to have the perfect choice so he was the last one to choose his pumpkin after having looked over many. The princess chose hers in 2 seconds. We said "okay everyone gets to pick a pumpkin" and she said "Okay here is mine" We helped the boys pick and then chose ours. We grabbed some very cool mini pumpkins and some Indian corn and then The Prince found his PERFECT pumpkin.

All the minis and corn and Daddy's cool gourd(far right)

Daddy's extremely large green pumpkin

Mommy and The Prince's (Yes his is gray, and most definitely the coolest!)

The Princesses and the Munchkins

The Bulldozers pumpkin didn't make it. Somehow (???) it got a hole in the side and had to be thrown away yesterday after rotting slowly for 3 weeks.

We did have a great time, and it will be eve more fun next year when the boys are older. It really is so different now that they are 2. Besides the constant tantrums, we are getting to do more things with them that would NEVER have been attempted before. WE do still have our limits though.

Apples

We went apple picking a few weeks ago. The kids LOVED it!!! The princess talked about it for days "My favorite part of the day was picking apples" she would say. The twins had so much fun too and the Prince was so well behaved and helpful (I love that).

I never thought...

...that my husband was capable of this. I have always known that he is very good at MANY things but on this I totally doubted him. You might even say that I laughed at him and made fun of him. I even called the man "Farmer Brad"! Well now I owe him an apology. Farmer Brad grew sweet potatoes from the eyes of the potatoes that sat too long on our counter. We weren't sure if they were relly growing under there, but sure enough they are! We pulled these out too early but there is still another crop out there that we will allow to continue to grow. Good job Farmer Brad! (He has EARNED that title now!)