Our cousins, Drew and Josh, have always liked to come watch the Blue Angels practice. They invited us to go with them this year. The Blue Angels are members of the Marine and Navy Corp. Their goal is to recruit members - and I could see that it could happen! It was so fun to watch!!
This was Ben and Elizabeth their first time spotting the planes!
For craft at zoo school the boys got their faces painted. They loved it, and really thought they were "real" tigers.
We also had a great visit with my friend, Allison, and her daughter,Emily. The dog looks a little scary here :) - I think he was just yawning or something. Unfortunately Elizabeth is at school so she missed the pictures.
We had a great visit with a fun dinner in the evening with our book club. No pictures, though. 
I'm finally getting around to posting about our Halloween party. We had a great time - there was a lot of people and food, but unfortunately I didn't have my camera out very much. I gave it to my mom for a little while but didn't tell her what to take, so we didn't get a ton of pictures, but better than nothing! 
and me and Tom. 
At the beginning the kids were playing out back, and the new thing is to climb on the play house. Elizabeth's friend Elliott was able to come - we hadn't seen them in a while! 
and Baylee - both were so pretty!
Victoria and her kiddos.
My dad was a magician and the girls really believed him, they kept asking him to do tricks ( I don't think he really knows any!)
Laura and Chrissy 
Some of the kids having a snack.
The Rangers were playing so the guys spent a lot of the night watching the game.
Ben and Josh were both Buzz Lightyear (and so was Cooper but he came later and I missed a picture of the 3 of them.)
Tom's brother Mark and his fiance were Luigi and Yoshi - the kids really like that!
The kids came out to the garage to play a game where they popped the balloons with a pin (the balloons were supposed to look like a jack-o-lantern) Each balloon had a piece of candy inside so the kids had a great time with this (except my kids were a little too nervous - they had to have someone else pop their balloon)
Ashlynn had a great technique - plugging her ear as she pops the balloon! :)
All the ladies that were in the garage - I wished we had gotten a picture of everyone!
Lots of the kids.
At the end of the night Ben and Nick (our friend from down the street) were asleep in the playroom. Elizabeth powered through and was awake until the end of the party.
I thought I would show this gross thing that got a lot of comments at the party. Those little heads are apples! You peel the apples and stick them in a bowl of cold water with a little lemon juice and salt. Then you carve faces and put them somewhere dry. I ended up sticking them in the oven (when it was off). If you want the apples to shrivel faster you can stick them in the oven on low for an hour or so every day and they will shrivel a lot faster. I think the kids had a good time seeing the apples turn into these creepy things!
Of course we had to carve our pumpkins again this year, something we all have fun doing. The kids aren't so into gutting the pumpkins so Tom was pretty busy doing 4 of the pumpkins by himself (we had 5 pumpkins this year!)
This was the first year both of the kids would reach into the pumpkin to help scoop it out. Thank goodness! Hopefully next year they will be even more help!
Elizabeth's "princess" pumpkin (I think we need some pumpkin carving lessons).
Here's our finished products! 
We had so much fun this Halloween weekend. We had our annual Halloween party on Saturday that I will post next - but here are Tom and I at our party. Can you tell we're Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee? Elizabeth took this picture of us before all the guests came.
And here are Elizabeth and Ben - or should I say Alice in Wonderland and Buzz Lightyear?!
Halloween morning we got up and cleaned, cleaned, cleaned from the party. We then headed to my parent's house for lunch and trick or treating.
Here's Elizabeth with her treats from Grandma and Grandpa.
Cooper and Jackson came with us to visit Grandma and Grandpa. Once Ben found out that Cooper was going to be Buzz - he had to be Buzz. These boys are twins I tell you!
My mom always manages to find these sucker mouths. It's a favorite with the kids.
After lunch we went to feed the ducks. My mom bought corn to feed them - they loved it!
Here are the kids at their first trick or treating house - our neighbors. 
We met up with our friends down the street - Nick and Emma. 
Here they are so excited, running away from their first house.
Ben only made it a block before he went home with Tom. Elizabeth and I went with our friends for over an hour so she got a ton of candy!
There were quite a few very spooky houses in our neighborhood. Elizabeth didn't really mind and went up to each one. 
Here she is with all her loot. It doesn't look like so much but her entire basket was full to the top. She was very excited to get so much candy (of course).
