Parties and Play Dates with our Besties

Cotton Candy action! Brock, Xavy, Dash, Pepper, Chael, Olly, Sophie and Pepper

Special kid party! A Farewell to some of our besties, the Osbornes. We will miss them!

The Woods bought a cotton candy machine off of taobao! We did a lot of playing together before the Osbornes moved. All three of our families home school and spent a lot of time together.  It's been a heart breaker for us. And Sophie Sajan, Callie's best friend, is moving to Shanghai for a year right before Christmas. We love their family too and will plan some Shanghai trips to play!

Addie, Chael, Brock, Callie, Olly, Sophie, Indy, Cam and Jet

Sophie, Brock, Callie and Indy.

Skeletons: Cameron, Chael and Olly

We had the Woods over to play for the day and made super cool felt masks. They are such creative and fun kids. And they play so well together.

It was also the day that the rat exterminator came! We had a rat in the kitchen and called the exterminator. Within an hour of him checking things and stuffing steel wool in some things outside he found mouse tracks in the kitchen that lead to the ceiling recessed lighting area. After jabbing the ceiling with a broom the rat came out and ran down the wall onto the kitchen floor and started down the stairs. Brian, cat-like, grabbed the broom and chased after it. The mouse got to the basement door where it was met by Addie the cat (see pic above!) and it turned around in time to be bashed and killed by Brian. Yay! Way to go team! The kids just happened to be playing in the basement and it was a good thing!

Carston, Caleb, Chael, Jet, Cameron, Finn, Pepper, Xavy, Addie, Olly, Indy, Brock, Dash and Callie. 

Xavy's Birthday! His favorite color is green and he loves anything green and cars. He's a doll, We love this indoor play area at the FourC which is about 15 minutes away. The kids were probably there for five hours playing tag. We bought a pass so it's about $4/child each time we go. So worth it! Especially on rainy days or poor air quality days.

He loved it when we sang to him! Go Xavy!

If not playing outside or legos inside, they are playing in costume...

Decorating cookies for Halloween.

Homeschool Halloween Party! Decorating cookies followed by a dance party. Chael likes to be in his PJ's as long as possible. 

Dash with his besties, Cameron, Jet and Indy.

These cute kids are in the "I'm missing a front tooth club!" So cute! 

At church in the primary room.

Halloween Party at the church meeting house!

Callie and Brock were burglars. Callie's in the back looking like a burglar. Chael was Captain America. Again. He was that last year. And last minute decided to be Captain America again! No problem! We've got that one. And Dash was a spider. They changed their minds SO many times before Halloween. It was fun to come up with something from stuff we already had on hand.

I made a scary but sweet piñata. Candy from the States in that baby.

The Frankenstein piñata!