Trick or Treat

I already posted a picture on our other blog of the kids in their costumes.  But I wanted to do another post on here with all of the details from the holiday.

If you missed the post on the other blog, here is a super cute picture of the kids in their costumes...

This year the kids dressed up as Elmo and Cookie monster.  I am not a sewer...yet.  So costumes have to be store bought around here.  Also they have to be warm since it usually snows on Halloween.  I wanted them to have a theme to their costumes since that is just so fun when you have two little kids.  Adalyn has loved Elmo for a long time so I knew this costume would be a fun one for her.  Cookie monster seemed like a good choice for Jensen since he is definitely not an Oscar the Grouch (he is way too smiley for that).  As for where I got their costumes... I bought Adalyn's tutu at a local children's boutique store and her hat off of Etsy.  Here is a better view of the hat...

The rest of the outfit she already had.  Luckily she loved her whole costume and spent a lot of time "spinning" in her tutu.  She seemed to also stay warm so I would say the whole costume was a success. 

Jensen's costume was all bought together on Ebay.  I thought the whole thing would be way too big because it is a size up from what he normally wears, but it fit perfectly.  He did not really love the hat but would tolerate it as long as he was outside.  His costume was WARM almost too warm some of the time.  We learned pretty quickly that he should really only wear it outside since he was sweating bullets when he wore it to the Ward Halloween party.

The Friday before Halloween our church had a Halloween party.  I was excited to try out their costumes and see all our friends costumes.  McKay and I were boring and didn't dress up for the party, but I did decorate one of the classroom doors for the kids to come "trick or treating" to.  Our ward goes trick or treating around inside the building instead of having a trunk or treat.  While it is pretty crazy inside it is nice to not have to worry about the weather.  Here are some more pictures from that night. 

On the actual day of Halloween we did not do too much.  I was actually kind of disappointed in myself for not doing more with the kids; like a cool art project or taking them to a fun activity.  But after thinking about it for a while I realized that my kids are still just so little.  While things are fun they just aren't quite old enough to really understand or enjoy special projects.  So in the future we will have to plan some fun things, but this year was pretty low key and that is ok.  Once it started getting dark we piled all the costumes in the living room in preparation for when daddy would get home from work.  Adalyn was so excited and kept practicing her cute little "trick or treat" and then "thank you".  Here she is begging to put her costume on.  Lately I have been putting her in skirts and leggings because they are just so cute!  So here is her orange leggings for Halloween...

Once daddy came home we ate some yummy cream cheese chicken chili (same one we had at Jensen's blessing).  We don't usually eat it so it was a real treat for us (or at least mommy and daddy loved it, the kids were not that impressed).  After dinner we threw on their costumes and McKay headed out with them for the trick or treating fun.  I decided to stay back and pass out candy (and it ended up raining to I was happy to stay home. 

Here are the trick or treaters:

Stay warm buddy!

As far as mine and McKay's costumes, I didn't dress up and he did.  I really don't love dressing up so I was happy to just wear my fall scarf. 

McKay was a scarecrow this year after a pretty painful searching for a costume at 10pm the night before.  His work dresses up during the day so he wanted to wear something.  We did the same last minute search thing last year and I told him a few weeks before Halloween this year that I am not a last minute person and so he should tell me then if he wanted help with a costume soon because I was not going to help him the night before.  Well guess who came up with his costume the night before...  Next year I will know better and plan ahead.  

After trick or treating the kids were freezing since it rained on them while they were out.  So we relaxed by the fire place and ate some candy. 

Love little moments like this with the family.  It is times like these that make it all worth it. 

  Happy Halloween! 

Happy Halloween 2013

Our little Elmo and Cookie Monster! 

Such a fun age for these costumes. 

I only wish I had gotten costumes for McKay and I to be Big bird and Oscar the grouch.  Oh well. 

Hope you all have a safe and fun Halloween!  Have a great evening!

p.s. don't you love how they are both sticking their tongues out the same way.  ahhh!!!  So cute!

Writers Block

Hello dear readers.  I really have been wanting to write, I just don't know what to write about so I have been avoiding this blog.  Still not really sure what I am going to write about so this post will be random.  We are still doing some fun things so those events have been getting posted on our family blog (leave a comment if you want an invite) but I haven't had much to say here. 

But life is good.  Our kids are SO cute.  Like, Jensen's little personality may just melt me every time I look at him.  He is getting older (10 months today) but is still little, or at least skinny.  The kid is SO smiley, and will laugh all day long.  Oh how I love that boy! 

Today was the primary program in our ward.  3 straight hours with Sunbeams.  I need a nap.  But they did well.  Especially on their parts, so cute that they can memorize their lines.  Even at 3 years old!  I love how much we all get to know each other throughout the year.  They know me, I know them and the most important... they know what I expect out of them.  This class took longer than my one last year to get to this mutual agreement but there are more of them so that is to be expected.  But now we can have fun.  They listen well and sit still and in return I try and plan some fun activities to do in class.  I am excited for these last few months in sunbeams with these kids. 

Halloween is this week.  Fun fun times as a parent.  The kids are darling in their costumes (we tried them out at the Ward Party).  Adalyn loved the Halloween party.  The girl could not wait to go back to the church today.  I was wondering if she would be disappointed because there wasn't candy being passed out at every corner, but she seemed to just be happy that she got to wear a pretty dress and see all her friends.  I will be sure to post some pictures of their costumes when the day finally comes.  This year we bought fruit snacks for our "candy".  I am wondering if kids will appreciate the change from the normal mini candy bars/ tootsie rolls, or if they will just think we are lame.  Who knows?

Also if any of you need a fairly guilt free snack you should try this because we are obsessed at our house.  Peanut butter banana smoothie- for one serving 1 banana, a little less than 1 Tbsp cocoa powder, 1 cup milk, heaping scoop of peanut butter, and about 4 ice cubes.  Then blend it all in a blender.  Enjoy!

Well that is all I can think of.  Hope you are having a good Sunday.  Have a great day!

Jensen- 10 Months Old

I think we are due for a post with more pictures than words.  We will let the pictures do the talking this time.  Just know, this little man has his parents wrapped around his finger.  spoiled. rotten. little. man.

Can't wait to put all his monthly pictures into one post!

Favorite one, he is such a tease!

He has the saddest, cutest, little pout face ever.  Mini melt down whenever we set him on the ground.  Luckily he gets over it after a minute or so (at least until you make eye contact with him again.  Best to just pretend that you don't see him crawling towards you, otherwise you get his hopes up for a snuggle.) 

Love you Jensen boy!

p.s. my mom and I have a bet going.  She thinks he will walk by the time he is one (or at one).  I think he will wait for a month or so.  At this point my mom might win.  He just started walking across the room with nothing except for his push toy.

Two walking toddlers... this is going to be fun. :)

Pumpkin Patch

We have a pumpkin patch a couple miles from our house.  Last year my mom, Mykelti, and I took Adalyn there to choose our pumpkins, see the chickens, and take pictures.  We had so much fun that we decided to go again this year, and bring the boys.

They also had a hay maze for the kids.  Corinne took Adalyn through it. 

Hay fun!  Too bad Adalyn is such a girl and didn't want to even have the hay touching her....

Warming up in the cute barn

Oh and in case you were wondering, we did find some pumpkins :) 

Thanks Grandma, Grandpa, and Corinne for coming to visit us!

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Hi

my name is Kajsa.

And I am addicted to Sweet potatoes.

 

 

Mmmmm....

 

 

Working on kicking the sugar addiction (you know, the constant need to have a treat every. single. day.)  The sweet potatoes we had for dinner last night definitely helped me not be SO crazy for a late night snack.   

 

Hope life is going well!  Happy Fall!

Caged Animals

Today is a blah day.  Sometimes I love Thursdays and other times, not so much.  Today, not so much.
How am I going to make it through the winter?  This almost nervousness (is that a word? probably not) that I feel for the cold weather is weird.  I do not want it to snow.  I usually don't mind it, but this year I am not excited for it.
The freezing days, harsh winds, and snow packed roads do not sound fun.  Outside is my freedom.  The kids love it and I do too.  What else can get you moving, endorphins going, and is free?  We use our stroller All. The. Time. (ask the neighbors). 

It is exhausting to me to try and keep the kids entertained all day inside.  There is a constant battle going on in my head everyday to keep them entertained, yet not let them watch too much TV.  I think we need to just get rid of the TV all together.  That would solve my problem right?

Do all toddlers need their mom to play with them ALL day.  I can hardly get the breakfast dishes done without the whining at my leg to do this or do that.

As I write this down I realize that yes whining and begging for attention is a normal toddler thing.

And maybe it is a normal mommy thing too after reading this post.  Sorry for the rant, I am going to grow up now and be happy.  :)

Life is good, I am blessed!  Here are my caged animals...