Carving Pumpkins

On Sunday we went over to Mark and Sherin's to carve pumpkins. And like always we had so much fun! To start the night off Braden and Mark tok the Saltine Challenge. You have to eat 6 Saltines in a minute with no water. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. They were both unsuccessful. Mark did cheat and got all 6 down while drinking water.

We had a lot of pumkins to carry in so we hooked up our work horse and got them inside in one trip.
And they're off

We put Joye on the floor and let her go. She didn't mind gutting the pumpkin. She wouldn't let me help. I would reach in and scrape it and she would pull my hand out, it was her pumpkin.

Then she worked hard, drawing her face on the pumpkin

Here are the masterpieces! We had Spongebob, Santa, and The Easter Bunny...NICE!
You can't really see but Braden carved ears for his pumpkin. Bruce had the biggest pumpkin (bottom left) and he carved a tiny face on it :)

Jaxon's pumpkin was so thin that it was glowing.

After we were done carving. We put Taylor and Joye in their Pajamas and let them play. They were being so cute together. Their favorite spot was on the little couch. I didn't have any pictures with both of them smiling. So I posted this one because I think Joye's face is funny.

1st Field Trip!

The boys got to go on their first field trip Thursday! We went to the Plymouth Fire Station. They had so much fun! They were both a little afraid of everything at first but once they got going they had a blast. I think their favorite part was the end, the fireman had drinks and hostess cupcakes for the kids. This was certainly Joye's favorite cause she got some too.

Here's the fireman. He put on all of his gear and even turned on his air tank to show the kids if they are ever in a fire not to be scared and hide from the firemen.
Then the kids got to try on the coat and hat!

The kids got to jump in the back of the ambulance and look around. The fireman told them not to become frequent flyer's in the ambulance. I thought of my accident prone Alek, hopefully he won't be.

Next was the fire truck. The kids got to jump in the driver's seat and "drive". They thought this was the coolest!

Here is the whole class. Good lookin group.

Sleepy Joye

This afternoon, the boys were playing outside, Me and Braden were reading books on the couch, and Joye was off exploring. She has decided it's lots of fun to go into a bedroom and shut herself in. Well she shut herself in the boys room and found Jaxon's piano. Me and Braden were listening to her play for quite awhile. I decided that I would go check on her, when I did this is what I found...
Joye had zonked out on the piano! Her arm was pushing on one of the keys hard enough and it just kept playing that same note over and over and again. After we laughed and took pictures of course, Braden picked her up to go put her in bed and apparently she had been asleep for quite some time...

You're pretty tired when buttons can leave indents in your head and it doesn't bother you enough to move.