You know it's a good day when it starts with these...
YUMMY! Pumpkin donuts helped us kick off our first "family night"/hang out day in a long long time. Partly we have just been plain busy and partly we have been sick and tired and worn out. But today, starting with donuts we had the rare and glorious opportunity to spend an entire day just the 4 of us and it was so appreciated. Someday this is what Ry & I will think back on and smile about while the boys are out trick or treating with theirs. I can't tell you how much a day with no real schedule or strict plan or obligation and just us means to me. I am starting to appreciate the little things so much.
Breakfast being enjoyed by boys all around, they are so sweet.
Then we of course settled in to watch a Husker victory over Michigan State which made 1 big boy in the house in particular very happy!
Then we loaded up & headed to the "Monster Mash" at the high school in town. It was a huge gym set up with games, bounce houses & lots of kiddos on a Halloween high. The boys had a BLAST!! Griff saw some friends from preschool and even Beanie hit up the bounce house for a bit and couldn't get enough!!
Griff playing a disgustingly creative game where you threw a net on a giant rat for some more treats!
My "goggie" & my love:)
After the mash we headed home and got some dinner ready. The boys entertained themselves and watched a Halloween movie called, "Spooky Buddies", which FYI is a very long movie with a much more drawn out plot line than Ry or I thought. Griff loved it though, so it was a win!
Please do not judge, but dinner was pizza (& salad!!!) and dessert was cookie pizza! It's a holiday, come on!!??!! And then it was onto the carving....
Ry was the master carver this year, since he lovingly reminded me that in the past I may or may not have cut very small eyes and a very large crooked nose in G's pumpkin.
TOP: G man scooping the "guts" very hesitantly
BOTTOM: My very own little pumpkin
Boys, your parents love you!
We had many a design suggestion, including an angry vampire (sorry Griffy) but we came up with a Griffin & Sawyer inspired jack-o-lantern, hair and all!
And even though it may be impossible to get a shot of them both smiling, we were all smiling after "the greatest Halloween Day EVER!" -Griffin
And to close this post, I have to share another sweet Griffin thought. Every night since we brought Beanie home, whoever is putting him to bed sings him a version of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" that we have made a few tweaks to. One of the lines of our version says, "You're the apple of my eye" but a few nights ago after reading a Halloween story or two, when we went to sing Beanie his nigh night song Griffin requested a seasonal verse change. So now we have been singing, "You're the pumpkin of my eye!" Hilariously cute and creative.
I love all the pumpkins in my patch!
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