Are you ready for some Duke football?

The boys enjoyed their first tailgate in Blue Devil Alley, in large part thanks to the massive piles of leaves...
 

 

The proximity to the bouncy houses also helped...
 

And they had a great time at the game, too:
 

 

Happy Halloween!

We kicked off the morning with Jack O'Lantern Pumpkin Pancakes:
 

And kicked off the evening with some neighbors and  the fire pit:
 

Leonardo & Michelangelo were eager to start trick or treating:
 

Their shells were dollar store chip & dip trees that I dremelled holes in for elastic:
 

Our neighbors have a fog machine that the boys love:
 

Hayes got so much candy they had to use his shell for the overflow:
 

Grant's Halloween Parade

 

 

 

 

Hayes' Spiderman Day

For Hayes' Halloween day, he wanted to be Spiderman, and lucky for him, last year's costume still fit:
 

 

Grant's First Field Trip

Grant had his first field trip, which meant that I had my first field trip experience as a chaperon.  The place was awesome (Green Acres Farm), and everyone had an awesome time...everyone except Grant, hence the lack of pictures.  Grant got a substantial wound on his shin (no joke, even M&Ms couldn't fix it) shortly after I took that first picture, so you'll see he's looking pretty sad in the group pictures.  I was carrying him around the rest of the time until one of the other moms found some Betadine, and that worked some sort of magic, so Grant enjoyed the last half hour, and I now keep a bottle of Betadine in my car.
 

Grant's class is the "Diggity Dogs" class, so those are little puppies on their T-shirts
 

 

Green Level Gourd 2013

We headed back over to one of our favorite pumpkin patches for a morning of fall festivities...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How Turtles Party

All decked out to walk the dog before we head off to our friends' annual Halloween party... 

Our full gear lasted long enough to take this picture....
 

How cool is that pirate ship bounce house?
 

Every now and then, Hayes likes to strike a model pose...

Leonardo does the bounce house...

We were able to get most of the people who were dressed up into this picture... 

Kyle even had a birthday cupcake...
 

TMNT Halloween

Happy Halloween from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
 

Happy Birthday Daddy!

We had a full day of parties, so we kicked off the morning with a birthday breakfast for Kyle...