Halloween, the 5th, 3rd and 1st

2011 marks Bradley’s 5th Halloween.  The first and second he was the famous shark and the third he was a penguin and the fourth he was Hercules.  Gavin’s first Halloween he was 1 week old and stayed home with Mimi and Dunka and his second year he was that famous shark but I don’t think I got a picture of it.  This year we have a Batman, Buzz and Shark. 

 

Great Granddad sent them each goodies on Halloween.  Gavin dove in while his brothers were sleeping.  Thanks Granddad!

Bradley had a great preschool party at school and came home with lots of crafts and treats.  I use his crafts as my Halloween decorations now.  Not just for Halloween either.  you can tell my home decor is made by a 4 year old in many of the bedrooms.  Anyways, here are Batman and Buzz….

 

Easton started getting a bad cough so we did not want to take him out in the weather. Brad stayed home with him and I took the boys out with some other moms and their boys. It was cold and had rained earlier.  I guess these may be the pictures we get out of Gavin for a while.  Nothing was wrong…except EVERYTHING was wrong! Who knows, who cares, is what I go with most days!

 

He finally stopped crying but was laying down thinking of maybe sitting this year out.  Like I said, Who knows?!

Easton was a shark while he was sleeping the trick-or-treating away.  I took these pictures the beginning of October when I pulled the costume out. 

 

From home we headed to downtown Southern Pines and all met at Megan’s house. 

Bradley ready to go and wandering why Gavin is sitting on the job. 

 

Here Batman and Buzz are pictured with Will the Tiger, James the Firefighter and Wyatt the Shark. 

 

Walking on Broad street.  There was supposed to be a festival at the park at the end but it was cancelled so the shops who were supposed to be passing out candy must have cancelled in lieu of that.  It turned out to be so nice because they just ran and played and then we hopped over to the next street and did traditional trick-or- treating. 

 

Auntie Tab helping Gavin.

 

 

If you look really close Bradley was intently staring at her face.

It is always a great night when more memories are made.  Tabitha and I brought the boys home and relieved Brad and Adam from baby duty.  They went to see Paranormal movie.  Brad finally asked for a mandate since he knows I would never go to any of those.  After we got the boys to bed Tab and I had wine and watched Bridesmaids.  A lot of fun and not just all for the kids ;)

Happy Halloweeny Tomorrow!

I have not been in the Halloween spirits this year.  I don’t really like Halloween anyways but I should be more chipper about it for the boys to have fun.  I think it started when Gavin pushed our $15 dollar pumpkin of the porch and I watched it roll to its death under Brad’s truck.  That may have been one of the culprits.  In attempts for me to gear up for tomorrow we went out tonight to see a display of over 300 hand carved pumpkins from a local guy in the next town over.  You bring a canned good for entry which goes to a boys camp that helps troubled teens find their way.  So off we went to support a great cause and some talent.  It was super cool and Bradley was so excited! He was the loudest kid there and would say for every one, “Look, Daddy, its a …….!!!” Just in case we didn’t know for ourselves ;) There were even more intricate ones the man created but my camera didn’t focus well on those in the dark for some reason being I am sure I wasn’t doing it right.  I hope everyone has a spooky, fun and safe Halloween tomorrow! Boo!

 

We loved it!

They asked us to love the fair, so we did! We went on Tuesday after we picked Bradley up from school.  He was so excited and I am really thankful for the family experience.  Thank you Liz for letting us borrow your Cadillac of a stroller.  It was awesome because Easton and Gavin enjoyed sitting in it. Brad’s cousin Johnny also helped us in a big way that day by calling on his cool State Trooper powers and getting us in free of charge, free parking by all the state trooper vehicles and getting us half off the ride ticket prices.  Let alone the troopers are right at the gate so we did not have to walk far like others did to get in.  It was VIP treatment all the way.  So cool! Once he got off duty he met up with us for a few hours that evening.  We had so much fun that before we knew it is was dark, it had started to drizzle and it was almost 9pm and the boys were still kicking it with us.  Here are the bright & fun pictures from our day…..

Watching Bradley intently!

 

The kids aren't the only ones who can have fun.  The caterpillar ride brought out my wild side, ha! Brad knows I love any of these things and sends me to go on them with the boys.  He says he wants to take over when they are older and go on things if they are scared, like their first big roller coaster experience. 

 

 

 

 

I had to get on a lot of the rides with Gavin.  Their height limit was pretty tall so if they were under they had to be with an adult the sign said. I couldn’t just send Bradley on there with him like I remember doing at the Ocean City boardwalk rides.  I enjoyed getting to ride with both of my big boys. 

 

 

Bradley and I rode the Ferris Wheel together.  He was freaking me out looking over the sides and wanting to stand up. 

Three views from the Ferris Wheel.  It was a perfect time to go because while we were at the top it had gotten dark out :)

Then we saved a cool one for last.  The log water coaster.  Where it drops and splashes you.  Thankfully not too bad!

   

That was out adventure at the Raleigh State Fair.  I also highly recommend fried Oreos! When they say fried what that really means in the case of what I ate was deep fried in funnel cake batter and it even had the powdered sugar  sprinkled on it.  It was like a warm gooey Oreo cookie wrapped in funnel cake.  You get 7 of them in the bag.  I only got 2 I think and Bradley and Gavin inhaled 5 between the two of them.