Halloween Fun

We were lucky enough to celebrate Halloween many times.  And who doesn't want massive quantities of candy for their kids.  

Our first celebration was at Smith Lake, while David was still in Afghanistan.  

We went with the Clark family.  

Pretty sure Joshua made the perfect, and cutest, minion.  

This was his first Halloween where he could really participate.  It didn't take him long to figure out what to do.  

Big Riley, Little Riley and Hannah 

Riley wanted a picture with this person.

The next event was our church's Halloween carnival.  

Notice Riley's costume change.  

With Grandma Fox, on Halloween..  

Joshua lasted about 30 minutes, then decided it was much easier to sit with me and Rebecca (we were handing out candy) and just eat out of our bowl.  

Maddie, Hannah, Riley and Joshua.  

Rebecca with Joshua and Me.  

Just a day

     I logged on this morning to look at an old post about one time Hannah had a high fever.  That's because Riley is going on day 5 of 105 fever.  It's been a good run without high fevers, we really haven't had one since Joshua has been born.  Of course we ended up in the ER, because that's our life as parents.  She was crying and complaining about pain exactly where your appendix would be.  However, they couldn't find any reason for the pain last night.  She still complained about being in pain after we got home, she woke up crying saying it hurt.  And she's still running a high fever.  We'll just see how today goes.

    While I'm here, I thought I throw some photo's up, to show what the kids have been up to.

Hannah had her first dance competition on March 18th.  

Riley and Joshua together.  

Riley, making herself comfortable at a football game last fall.  

Riley and Joshua.  They're either laughing and screaming or yelling and screaming.  Loudly.  There's not much in between.  

Painting in the backyard.

I was in a play at Christmas.  It was time consuming and exhausting.  And fun.  It was a lot of fun.  

It was called Christmas in Mayberry.

Riley received an Anna doll from Santa.

These guys came over Christmas.  It was magical.  

Joshua's favorite truck.  

Anna also wears Riley's clothes.  Here's she's just sporting Riley's shoes.  

Riley and I made cookies for preschool.  

Hannah received a guitar for Valentines day.  

Hannah's art work, shown in dance pose. 

Girls.  

Joshua does not need diapers.  Now if I could just get him to realize that.  

More from Hannah's first competition.  

I took 10 minutes to go over Hannah's grammar work, and these two painted the carpet and doors and themselves.  

David and I ran a marathon together.  It was a tough course.  Very hilly.  We both had moments of grumpiness with each other.  David hurt his knee.  But we did it together! 

Riley Moon 

Riley's party

So we were traveling over Riley's birthday.  We did do something small to celebrate, cupcakes and a petting zoo, but it was nothing like the birthday party we had for Hannah.  

And, as any parent of more than one will tell you, it's just easiest to do for one what you are willing to do for all.  Because Riley remembers Hannah's birthday party.  So she would ask when she was going to have her party.  

I decided to wait until Aunt Casey was here.  Since I had to wait for us to get home, I didn't think it would matter much waiting another week or so.  Plus, I knew Casey would enjoy being home for it.  

Riley's cake was perfect, for Riley.  As you can see here, she loved it!  She had a few friends over, Regan from co-op and Olivia from church.  Ethan came over and stayed the night with us. 

I told everyone not to worry about gifts because

Riley just wanted everyone to look at her.

and sing to her.  

Our guests did not listen well.  At least most of them did not.  

EIther way, Riley had a fantastic time.  She played non stop in the back yard with her friends.