Posted by Rachel on Nov 1, 2009 in
Holidays,
Noah,
Rick
Hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween. I think Noah really enjoyed his trick or treating experience!!! We dressed him up as a scarecrow, but he didn’t really like the suspenders, so he was trying to pull them off – he did get one strap off about 1/2 way through.
We started the night by going to our neighbors and had a Papa Murphy’s pizza that looked like a jack o’latern. Then we got the kids dressed and headed out to start trick or treating. I went along down the block but then came back to hand out candy. Rick said that Noah did really good and was getting really good at grabbing for the candy!! He did bring home some really good treats, but he doesn’t need all that sugar, so I guess I will help him out!!!!
It was such a nice night for trick or treating. There were a lot of neighbors that had a fire pit going in the driveway and sitting outside to hand out candy. After the kids were in bed, we sat outside around the fire pit and started eating the candy!!!
Here is a picture of the neighbor kids before we got going – Cecelia, Josh and Noah.
Quick family picture…
Our first house was across the street – Noah grabbed two pieces of candy and then wanted to chase the dog.
Posted by Rachel on Oct 30, 2009 in
Holidays,
Noah,
Rick
Last night our good neighbors came over and we had a pumpkin carving night!! We first had dinner, which consisted of Pizza Mummies, Hotdog Mummies, Witch’s Fingers, Eyeballs, and for dessert there was Halloween cupcakes and Skeleton cookies.
We also had Rotten Apple Cider to drink. There are some gummy worms in there too, but they ended up sinking to the bottom.
After we were done eating, we cleared off the table and started carving. Okay, so the guys did the carving and the girls picked out the seeds so we could bake them later and we also ran after the kids. (I think our job was harder!) The boys did break out the power tools to help carve the pumpkins, so they were excited!!!
We had a fun night and now we are ready for Halloween!!!! I do have to get Noah’s costume ready yet, hopefully it will all work out like I plan! Then we’ll see how much candy he can get tomorrow night!!! Happy trick-or-treating!!!
Posted by Rachel on Oct 28, 2009 in
Funny,
Holidays
A man is walking home alone late one foggy Halloween night, when behind him he hears:
BUMP…
BUMP…
BUMP…
Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image of an upright casket banging its way down the middle of the street toward him.
BUMP…
BUMP…
BUMP…
Terrified, the man begins to run toward his home, the casket bouncing quickly behind him.
FASTER…
FASTER…
BUMP…
BUMP…
BUMP….
He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him. However, the casket crashes through his door, with the lid of the casket clapping.
clappity-BUMP…
clappity-BUMP..
clappity-BUMP…
on his heels, as the terrified man runs.
Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, he locks himself in. His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps.
With a loud CRASH the casket breaks down the door.
Bumping and clapping toward him.
The man screams and reache s for something, anything, but all he can find is a bottle of cough syrup! Desperate, he throws the cough syrup at the casket…
and,
(hopefully you’re ready for this!!!)
The coffin stops
Posted by Rachel on Oct 25, 2009 in
Around KC,
Holidays,
Rick
Last night, Rick and I went out on a date to celebrate Rick’s birthday while his parents watched Noah. We first went out to eat at Zio’s Italian Restaurant. I had the Chicken Alfredo Lasagna and boy was that good!!!! I only ate half of it so I could finish it off today!!! After eating we stopped at a few stores to do some window shopping and then we were going to head home and go to our neighbors Halloween party. We didn’t have a costume yet so as we were talking on the way home, we thought we could be the Black Eyed Peas. So we stopped off at Target and picked up some black shirts, green duct tape and some black face paint. Pretty easy costume!!!! We got home and made a “P” out of the green duct tape and put on some black paint and we headed over to the neighbors house. A little later in the night, they even had the band play a few songs for everyone!
Posted by Rachel on Oct 24, 2009 in
Family,
Noah,
Rick
Rick’s parents are down for the weekend. They came for Rick’s birthday and of course, I had a project for his Dad!!! He sorta expects it from me!!! They are working in our master bedroom closet – finishing the sides of the attic so I can use it for storage. Rick and I did one side a couple of years ago and with a new baby on the way, I need to start cleaning out our extra bedroom – which means I need to figure out what to do with everything in the bedroom closet!!! The attic part only had a little crawl hole, so the first part of the project is to get a door on it, so I can get in and out! Rick and I will add the floor and walls – nothing fancy, just some sheets of particle board.
Of course, Noah is not being left out! He is loving having Grandpa here – he will try to hide from him and then Grandpa comes up behind him and gets him, Noah screams and then he’ll do it all over again. It’s pretty funny to watch!
And Grandma is having a great time trying to keep up with him!!! This morning they were looking at the Toys R Us magazine trying to make a Christmas list. It sounds like he must have pointed to a farm set that was $130 – Grandma said that was too expensive. I guess he’ll have to keep looking!!!!
